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Book Review: Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik

December 1, 2019

Polaris Rising is the sexy space princess/rebel sci-fi romance none of us knew we needed. With a light touch and excellent pacing, Jessie Mihalik takes her readers on a journey around the universe and back, all while her characters are dodging ...

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Book Review: The Number of Love by Roseanna M. White

November 30, 2019

Everything that happens in this book is informed by the fact that Roseanna M. White is a white, homeschooling Christian lady from the American South, and that she is projecting her own god-experiences onto two Catholic Europeans working as spies ...

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Book Review: The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

November 29, 2019

Sparkling, boozy, and surprisingly subversive: in The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine retells The Twelve Dancing Princesses with feminist, 1920s flapper flair. From the cramped attics of their cruel father’s townhouse to the ...

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Book Review: Tarnished Amongst the Ton by Louise Allen

November 28, 2019

If you are looking for a book that fairly and accurately depicts the difficulties faced by a viscount of Indian descent as he attempts to make his way through London drawing rooms, Tarnished Amongst the Ton is not the book for you. Likewise, if ...

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Uh…? It’s a Bodice Ripper, so… | Stormfire by Christine Monson

November 26, 2019

Christine Monson’s Stormfire needs no introduction. It is the quintessential Bodice Ripper, dating from back when the genre was darker, more violent, and, well…a lot more problematic. Books like this are what give romance novels their bad name, ...

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Book Review: Cleopatra’s Shadows by Emily Holleman

November 23, 2019

Emily Holleman brings the imagery and prose of literary fiction to Ptolemaic Egypt in Cleopatra's Shadows, her first novel. This book fills in and offers a possible answer to unanswered questions: what were the lives of Cleopatra's less-famous ...

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