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Book Review: Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama

I just really, really liked this book, more than I’d anticipated certainly. Monstrous Beauty is not the mermaid book you think you know. It’s fresh, it’s dark, it’s moody. Elizabeth Fama knows how to craft an atmospheric story without a doubt, ...
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Book Review: Then You Were Gone by Lauren Strasnick

What Lauren Strasnick did with this book is disgusting. Her protagonist is a self-centered, slut-shaming idiot who gets a happy ending with her dream boy. The rape victim is a crazy whore who got what she deserved. What the hell was this author ...
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Book Review: Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis

Even with a failtastic end, I really enjoyed Animal Attraction. It was a cute romance that featured many fuzzy canine companions, as well as flawed characters who (sort of) worked through their issues together. Shalvis definitely writes ...
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Book Review: Savage Girl by Jean Zimmerman

As interesting as the topic of feral children might be (I admit, very interesting), it’s also true that a book requires more than just a unique premise. Savage Girl promises to be quite different from the majority of historical fiction, and it ...
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Book Review: The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak

Though The Winter Palace is advertised as being “a novel of Catherine the Great”, I’d be somewhat hesitant to agree. True, Eva Stachniak sets most of the story during the years after Catherine comes to Russia and immediately before and after her ...
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