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I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Oathbringer
• Return of the Native
• Rhythm of War
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• The Woods Are Always WatchingCategories:
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- dream-invader
- education
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- Harry Potter
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- lists
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- Middle East
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Tag Archives: speculative
Siege and Storm, by Leigh Bardugo
Spoilers. Second volume of the Grisha trilogy, following Shadow and Bone. I had so many thoughts and ideas about this book. It was literally my most anticipated book of 2013. Even though I rarely buy books these days, I went … Continue reading
Protected: Beautiful Darkness, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
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The Shadow Society, by Marie Rutkoski
Darcy Jones doesn’t have any memory from before she was abandoned at a Chicago firehouse when she was five years old. Since then, she’s lived in a string of foster homes, and has only recently stayed in one long enough … Continue reading
Beautiful Creatures, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Ethan is having dreams about a girl he cannot see, a girl sinking into mud, that he can’t rescue. He doesn’t understand, and he doesn’t expect anything to change in his backwoods small-town Gatlin, South Carolina. But then Lena arrives, … Continue reading
Scarlet, by Marissa Meyer
Minor spoilers. In complete contrast to what I normally think about second books in a series, I not only enjoyed Scarlet as much as Cinder, but I think it improved Cinder in my mind. Scarlet is a retelling of Little … Continue reading
Protected: The Madness Underneath, by Maureen Johnson
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Posted in 2013, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged POC, RIP-worthy, speculative
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The Uninvited, by Liz Jensen
Spoilers. What a bizarre book. This starts out almost like an apocalyptic or near-dystopian sort of book. Two seemingly disconnected things start happening all around the world. First, there are the children who suddenly attack their parents in gruesome ways, … Continue reading
Protected: The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (audio)
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Girl of Nightmares, by Kendare Blake
This is the follow-up to Anna Dressed in Blood, which I enjoyed immensely last week. The second book was good, but I have to admit, not as good as the first. Some of the plot was very flimsy, as well … Continue reading
Anna Dressed in Blood, by Kendare Blake
I went into this book expecting it to be nothing more than a fun, silly teen horror/thriller novel. That’s exactly what it ended up being, and I read it all in a single afternoon. The plotting was perfect, and the narrator … Continue reading
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