Book Reviews
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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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“Good people don’t bow their heads and bite their tongues while other good people suffer. Good people are not complicit.” In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle
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“I could become the thing I’d always feared, and then I might never be afraid of anything again.” Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying— from disease, turf
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“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.” A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker
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“Great cities are like any other living things, being born and maturing and wearying and dying in their turn.” Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She’s got five. But every city also has a dark side. A roiling,
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“Do you think maybe the rumors about you two might have a point? One that maybe you didn’t realize before?” Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn’t come at a worse time— threatening Emma’s
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***Thank you to Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.*** “What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?” France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the
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There was a little witch in every woman, but not every woman was a witch. Seventeen-year-old Dayna Walsh is struggling to cope with her somatic OCD; the aftermath of being outed as bisexual in her conservative Irish town; and the return of her long-absent mother, who barely seems like a parent. But all that really
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