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REVIEW: The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain

Every day, Albert Entwistle makes his way through the streets of his small English town, delivering letters and parcels and returning greetings with a quick wave and a “how do?” Everyone on his route knows Albert, or thinks they do—a man of quiet routines, content to live alone with his cat, Gracie.

Three months before his sixty-fifth birthday, Albert receives a letter from the Royal Mail thanking him for decades of service and stating that he is being forced into retirement. At once, Albert’s...

REVIEW: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

Paris, 1889

The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe…including Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Caña Brava rum empire.

Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love. In the City of Lights, she intends to expand the rum business her family built over three generations, but buyers and shippers alike can’t imagine doing busine...

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Review : The Hourglass Throne ( The Tarot Sequence #3) by K.D. Edwards

As Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appears around New Atlantis’s famed rejuvenation center. But who could have created such formidable magic . . . what do they want from the immortality clinic . . . and what remains of the dozens trapped inside?

Though Rune and his lifelong bodyguard Brand are tasked with investigating the mysterious barrier, Rune is also busy settling into his new life at court. Claiming his father’s throne has irrev...

REVIEW: This Book Is Not for You! by Shannon Hale, illustrated by Tracy Subisak

From New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor–winning author Shannon Hale and award-winning illustrator Tracy Subisak, comes a zany picture book that pokes fun at overly gendered notions of “boy books” and “girl books” and celebrates the pleasure of a good book.

Stanley’s thrilled for bookmobile day—until the old man at the window refuses to lend him the story he wants, all because it features a girl. “Girl books” are only for girls, the book man insists, just like cat books are only for c...

REVIEW: Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn by Shannon Hale, illustrated by LeUyen Pham

From the bestselling superstar duo Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham, creators of Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn, comes another positively delightful kitty and unicorn story that celebrates the magic of friendship—and the beauty of imperfection

Unicorn is perfect.
Everybody thinks so.
He yearns to look the way everyone thinks he should.

But when a fumble makes Unicorn feel like a big, ugly goof, he can’t help but wonder: If he’s not absolutely perfect and majestic all the time, will Kitty even want to be hi...

REVIEW: From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper

Wild child Isidora Avramov is a thrill chaser, adept demon summoner, and—despite the whole sexy-evil-sorceress vibe—also a cuddly animal lover. When she’s not designing costumes and new storylines for the Arcane Emporium’s haunted house, Issa’s nursing a secret, conflicted dream of ditching her family’s witchy business to become an indie fashion designer in her own right.

But when someone starts sabotaging the celebrations leading up to this year’s Beltane festival with dark, dangerous magic, ...

REVIEW: The Mating Call of the Teleporting Warbler by Aster Glenn Gray

An f/f epistolary short story. When Rosemary’s research on the elusive teleporting warbler takes her out of cell service, established middle-aged couple Eleanor and Rosemary keep in touch by sending letters via their winged pet cat Ursula.

Previously published in Her Magical Pet: Benefit F/F Story Collection.

Dear Aster Glenn Gray,

My blogging partners have been reading and reviewing your books for years but up until now, I haven’t. Well, that is going to change. “The Mating Call of the Telep...

REVIEW: The Honeymooner (PARADISE BAY SERIES Book 1) by Melanie Summers

I’m Libby Dewitt and I live by the motto: “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” I’m finally about to start my dream life with my steady-as-a-rock fiancé, Richard Tomy. Together, we’re the perfect power couple—right down to the fact that he’s agreed to use our honeymoon to help further my career in mergers and acquisitions.

But ten minutes before the wedding, my dreams dissolve via text message.

Devastated and humiliated, I escape to Paradise Bay alone with two goals for my trip: to devise a...

REVIEW: What the Ermine Saw by Eden Collinsworth

Five hundred and thirty years ago, a young woman sat before a Grecian-nosed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci. Her name was Cecilia Gallerani, and she was the young mistress of Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan. Sforza was a brutal and clever man who was mindful that Leonardo’s genius would not only capture Cecilia’s beguiling beauty but also reflect the grandeur of his title. But when the portrait was finished, Leonardo’s brush strokes had conveyed something deeper by revealing the essence of Ce...