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Book Reviews

Book Review: Croak by Gina Damico

It’s not that Croak was bad so much that is was just…nothing special. It certainly had its moments, of course, but I finished Gina Damico’s debut feeling rather unenthused. There weren’t any real surprises is in this book, and the prose was only ...
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Book Review: Getting Somewhere by Beth Neff

This book’s first issues arrive early, and continue on from there. The opening is extremely vague and nondescript. Some girls are on a bus, they arrive at some place, and some women greet them. That’s it. There is absolutely no sense of place or ...
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Book Review: Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris

Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries can always be counted on to be solid reads, and Who Buries the Dead was no different. It was perhaps not my favorite in the series, but I liked it quite a lot all the same. C.S. Harris has a great eye for both ...
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Book Review: Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

This is a pretty good book, and another success for Tessa Dare. I don’t find that her books move me in the way I’d like them to, but they’re undoubtedly entertaining and enjoyable. Romancing the Duke was worth the read, though probably not worth ...
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Book Review: The Warmth of Other Suns

In The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson sets out to document an important yet little-recognized migration that occurred in the 20th century United States. Between 1915 and 1970, some 6 million Black Americans moved from the South to the ...
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