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July 3, 2020
Book Review: The Suicide House
Genre: Mystery, Thriller Publishing Info: July 28, 2020 by Kensington Books, 304 pages Blurb (Goodreads): Inside the walls of Indiana’s elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced. But in the woods beyond the manicured campus and playing fields sits an abandoned boarding house that is infamous among Westmont’s students… Continue reading Book Review: The Suicide House
July 1, 2020
Book Review: The Rules of Magic
Genre: Magic Realism, Family Drama, LGBTQ Publishing Info: Oct 2017 by Simon and Schuster, 369 pages Blurb (Goodreads): For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the… Continue reading Book Review: The Rules of Magic
June 29, 2020
Book Review: The Lost City
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Publishing Info: July 7, 2020 by Wednesday Books, 384 pages Blurb (Goodreads): Ulla Tulin was left abandoned in an isolated Kanin city as a baby, taken in by strangers and raised hidden away like many of the trolls of mixed blood. Even knowing this truth, she’s never stopped wondering about her… Continue reading Book Review: The Lost City
June 26, 2020
Book Review: The Knockout Queen
Genre: Contemporary, LGBT+ Publishing Info: April 2020 by Knopf, 271 pages Blurb (Goodreads): Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore–beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael–with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing–lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door.… Continue reading Book Review: The Knockout Queen
June 24, 2020
Book Review: Practical Magic
Genre: Women’s Fiction, Magical Realism Publication Info: August 5, 2003, 286 pages Blurb (Goodreads): The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman. For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts… Continue reading Book Review: Practical Magic
June 23, 2020
Teen Tuesday: Odriel’s Heirs
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance Publishing Info: March 2020 through Amazon Blurb (Goodreads): The brave, burning with fire, harnessed the Dragon’s Rage…. As the Dragon Heir, seventeen-year-old Kaia inherited the power of flame to protect her homeland from a godlike necromancer’s undead army. But after centuries of peace, the necromancer has faded to myth, and… Continue reading Teen Tuesday: Odriel’s Heirs
June 22, 2020
Book Review: Crave
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance Publishing Info: April 7th, 2020 by Entangled, 592 pages Blurb (Goodreads): My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods…or monsters. I still can’t decide which of these warring… Continue reading Book Review: Crave
June 19, 2020
Book Review: Second Star to the Right
Genre: Fiction, Magic Realism Publication Info: April 1999, 376 pages Blurb (Goodreads): Faye O’Neill has learned the hard way that marrying Prince Charming only happens in fairy tales, and now she’s got her feet firmly planted on the ground. A fresh start in London has Faye creating a safe, secure life for herself and her… Continue reading Book Review: Second Star to the Right
June 17, 2020
Book Review: The Peasant’s Dream
Genre: Young Adult, Christina, Historical Fiction, Fairytale Retelling Publishing Info: July 7th, 2020, 320 pages Blurb (Goodreads): In this reverse Cinderella story, a poor farmer’s son, who dreams of using his talent as a woodcarver to make a better life for himself, falls in love with a duke’s daughter and must fight for a chance… Continue reading Book Review: The Peasant’s Dream
June 15, 2020
Book Review: South of the Buttonwood Tree
Genre: Women’s Lit, Magical Realism Publication Info: July 21, 2020 by Forge, 336 pages Blurb (Goodreads): Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she’s happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when… Continue reading Book Review: South of the Buttonwood Tree
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