Book Reviews
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“A princess, a priestess, a bodyguard, a prisoner, a con artist, a goofball, and me, self-appointed asshole in charge of them all.” The sun is dying…and it’s happening way too damn fast. With the clock ticking, the Nine Planets’ only hope of survival rests on a fancy space station and the alien artifact it’s carrying.
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***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “Rebellion didn’t come with instructions.” The Emperor is Dead. Long live the Emperor. Lin Sukai finally sits on the throne she won at so much cost, but her struggles are only just beginning. Her people don’t trust her. Her political alliances
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***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “I don’t know how to be anything but all in when it comes to you.” Margot Cooper doesn’t do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she’ll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. But now
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“The problem with knowledge is its inexhaustible craving. The more of it you have, the less you feel you know.” The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a
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“Nobody is ever gonna be as happy as you are about the good things that happen, but everybody is gonna show up to watch when the shit goes down.” Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as “a fierce new voice” and “queer, feminist, and ready to spill
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“Heroes went through so much hardship. Heroes were the stuff of tragedies.” The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family. A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge. A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne. The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible
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***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “Have you ever stared up at the sky and wondered where it was you saw yourself, all those years ago? Which star it was you followed here?” With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on
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“I would drink a thousand lies just to see your face again.” In an empire controlled by bone shard magic, Lin, the former heir to the emperor will fight to reclaim her magic and her place on the throne. The emperor’s reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like
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“There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn’t understand. Best get used to it.” In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an
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“You are in the house and the house is in the woods. You are in the house and the house is in you.” Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective
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