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Book Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffers & Annie Barrows

January 8, 2015

I didn’t outright love this novel. The story, in my opinion, could have been told much better in a more traditional format with some samplings of letters mixed in. Even so, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was a solid historical ...

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Book Review: Poltergeist by Kat Richardson

January 8, 2015

I’m mostly ambivalent towards this book. Urban fantasy is generally a pretty fun genre, and while this book was fun at times, there were also numerous dull spots. Poltergeist was very different from the first book in the series, and I’m ...

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Book Review: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton

January 7, 2015

This book just took me completely by surprise. I was definitely interested in The Secret Wisdom of the Earth when I started reading it, but I don’t think my idea of “coming of age tale in a Kentucky mining town” matched up with reality at all. ...

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Book Review: The Prince of Venice Beach by Blake Nelson

January 5, 2015

This is not a good book. This is a very, very terrible book. I honestly really hate it. Not only is it poorly written and unrealistic, it’s horrifyingly sexist. I don’t know who thought publishing The Prince of Venice Beach was a good idea, but ...

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Book Review: Greywalker by Kat Richardson

January 5, 2015

Kat Richardson’s Greywalker was much better than I’d anticipated. I’d heard around the grape vine that this series starts off really bad but quickly improves, so I’d expected to not like this book so much, and just sort of muddle through. ...

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Book Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

January 4, 2015

This book is one that works, in spite of its technical difficulties and issues. Holly Black’s imagination and creativity are what make this book into a success. I’ve read better written books than The Darkest Part of the Forest. Black has ...

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