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Book Review: The Winter Charlatan
by Victoria McCombs publisher’s synopsis A Queen raised in the shadows, and a Fraud Prince who needs her help. The sole heir to the kingdom is destined to sleep for a hundred years. To hide this liability, the queen left her cursed daughter in the care of a trusted lord, while taking his son as…
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Book Review: Into the Heartless Wood
by Joanna Ruth Meyer publisher’s synopsis The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centuries, a witch has harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow her domain. When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters,…
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Book Review: Seventh City
by Emily Hayse publisher’s synopsis “Let me tell you a story that happened so long ago that only the hills and rivers can remember the time . . . .” All her life, thirteen-year-old Maki has heard tales of the legendary city of gold, buried deep in the northern frontier. But when her village is…
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Writing Resource: Adorning the Dark
Writing Resources are sort of like book reviews, except that they’re about non-fiction books related to writing! And today’s Writing Resource Highlight is Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson. publisher’s synopsis Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone. Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has…
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Book Review: Of Fire and Ash
by Gillian Bronte Adams publisher’s synopsis She rides a fireborn, a steed of fire and ash, trained for destruction. Ceridwen tal Desmond dreams of ruling like her father over the nation of Soldonia, where warriors ride to battle on magical steeds—soaring on storm winds, vanishing in shadow, quaking the earth, and summoning the sea. After…
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Book Review: The Means That Make Us Strangers
by Christine Kindberg publisher’s synopsis Home is where your people are. But who are your people? Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia, where she and her family are the only white people she knows. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964. Adelaide promises she’ll return to Ethiopia and become part…
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Book Review: Silverblood
by Jamie Foley publisher’s synopsis The Jade Witch sacrifices everything to save her people from one enemy—by forging an alliance with another. A desperate chieftess. Brooke’s treetop city is a charred husk of its former glory. Her people demand revenge against the Emberhawk tribe, blind to the larger threat: the ravenous Malaano Empire. Determined to…
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Book Review: Emberhawk
by Jamie Foley publisher’s synopsis The elementals have decided they’re gods, and humans are nothing but fuel for their fire. A starving trapper. Merciless drought withers Kira’s ranch, leaving her family hungry—and desperate enough to cross the border into the forbidden forest to trap wild game. But the forest is infested with tree-scorpions and giant…
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Book Review: A Little Taste of Poison
by R. J. Anderson publisher’s synopsis The city of Tarreton is powered by magic, from simple tablets that light lamps to advanced Sagery that can murder a man from afar. Isaveth has a talent for spell-making, but as a girl from a poor neighborhood she never dreamed she could study at the most exclusive magical…
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