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Book Review: Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Overall, Oyeyemi’s novels seem to be getting better and stronger as she matures. Boy, Snow, Bird is a cunning tale of race and family that pays homage to the Snow White fairytale. Everything in this book works very well together, and the ...
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Book Review: Dust City by Robert Paul Weston

Though not without flaws, Dust City by Robert Paul Weston is an enjoyable reworking of everyone’s favorite fairytale characters. The urban setting and real-life issues introduced in this book were a nice touch, though I ultimately felt that the ...
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Book Review: Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer

In a sentence, this book is about homecoming and making peace with the past. Protagonist Queenie Wake ran away from her home town, North Star, to get away from the suffocating shame and hurt that happened throughout her growing-up years. Coming ...
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Book Review: The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco

While not particularly scary or well-developed, The Girl from the Well is still an enjoyable and fun novel that doesn’t try to take itself too seriously. Rin Chupeco offers readers horror-lite, and to great success. I’m not sure I’ll find this ...
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Book Review: Five Ways to Fall by K.A. Tucker

Five Ways to Fall was not the greatest romance ever. It started off promisingly, but wasn’t developed enough to make a positive impression on me. I’ve definitely read better from K.A. Tucker, but I’ve already read worse. This wasn’t my favorite.
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Book Review: Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

I feel like I wasted my money in purchasing Belzhar. A good idea does not mean a book is good quality. I found Meg Wolitzer’s Belzhar to be surprisingly trite and juvenile, in spite of the promise for something profound. Constant discussions of ...
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