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Review: A Curious Beginning | Deanna RaybournSummary:
London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry--and the occasional romantic dalliance.
Review: A Dark and Drowning Tide | Allison SaftSummary:
Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles in search of a fabled spring.
Review: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder | Holly JacksonSummary:
The case is closed. Five years ago, school girl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.
Review: Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die | Greer StothersIn this hilarious, off-the-wall queer fantasy romance, a reclusive sorcerer is forced to protect a cowardly knight after a prophecy ties their fates together.
Review: Are You Listening? | Tillie WaldenSummary: Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou.
This chance encounter sends them on a journey through West Texas, where strange things follow them wherever they go. The landscape morphs into an unsettling world, a…
Review: Comet in Moominland | Tove JanssonSummary:
When Moomintroll learns that a comet will be passing by, he and his friend Sniff travel to the Observatory on the Lonely Mountains to consult the Professors.
Review: Felix Ever After | Kacen CallenderSummary: Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even…
Review: Heartstopper | Alice OsemanSummary: throughout 5 books the lives of Charlie and Nick are being followed, how the came together and grow up through their struggles and how they will see the future together.
Vol one, Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham…
Review: I Wish You All the Best | Mason DeaverSummary: It's just three words: I am nonbinary. But that's all it takes to change everything.
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their…
Review: Katabasis | R.F. KuangSummary:
Two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:
The story of a hero’s descent to the underwold
Review: My Vampire Plus-One | Jenna LevineSummary: Amelia Collins is by definition successful. She would even go so far as to say successfully single. But not according to her family, and she's tired of the constant questions about her nonexistent dating life. When an…
Review: Squire | Nadia ShammasSummary: Follow fourteen-year-old Aiza, who trains to become a knight for a war-torn empire while hiding her true background as a girl from conquered lands.
Born a second-class citizen, Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a…
Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. SchwabSummary:
France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman named Adeline meets a dangerous stranger and makes a terrible mistake.
Review: The Love of My Afterlife | Kirsty GreenwoodSummary:
If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment.
Review: The Naked Light | Bridget CollinsMy opinion:
If you have read other books by Bridget Collins, you may think you already know what to expect. I can tell you that this book will exceed all your expectations!
Review: The Wolf Den | Elodie HarperSummary:
Sold by her mother. Enslaved in Pompeii's brothel. Determined to survive. Her name is Amara. Welcome to the Wolf Den..
Review: Tomie | Junji ItoSummary: Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye.