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Book Review: Nightingale
by Deva Fagan Nightingale is a fun middle-grade fantasy novel. It follows the story of Lark, a young orphan doing her best to stay out of the factory. When the story begins, we find Lark in the middle of robbing the museum, needing to steal something so that she can pay the woman who runs…
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Book Review: Wingfeather Tales
edited by Andrew Peterson If you are a fan of the Wingfeather Saga, you will love Wingfeather Tales. Wingfeather Tales is a collection of seven stories written by various authors that all take place in the world of Aerwiar. The stories take place before, during, and after the Wingfeather Saga. But if you’re trying to…
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Book Review: Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery
by Ally Carter Note: This review contains spoilers for book one in the series! Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery picks up several months after the ending of the first book, Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor. April, Colin, Sadie, Tim, and Violet are all settling into life at Winterborne House with Gabriel as their…
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Book Review: The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice
by Lisa DeSelm Pirouette spends her days busy helping her father, Gephardt the puppetmaster. Aside from performing marionette shows, Piro helps her father crafts the dozens and dozens of life-sized wooden soldiers the Margrave, the ruler of Tavia, has ordered. And in everything she does, Piro guards her secret: that she was once a marionette,…
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Book Review: Dearest Josephine
by Caroline George I typically don’t read books that are more centered on a romance plot, but after I kept hearing so much buzz about Dearest Josephine, I decided to go ahead and request an ARC of it. Dearest Josephine is an epistolary novel told in emails, texts, letters, and a manuscript. It alternates between…
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Lament Blog Tour + an Interview with the Author
I am super excited to get to be a part of the blog tour for Lament by Laura L. Zimmerman today! Lament is the second book in the Banshee Song Series, published by Love2ReadLove2Write Publishing, or L2L2 as they’re also called. Before I get into my review of Lament and my interview with Laura, here’s…
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Book Review: The Vanderbeekers, Lost and Found
by Karina Yan Glaser Adventure never seems to leave the Vanderbeekers! As autumn and the start of a new school year roll around, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman prepare for the city marathon and trying to figure out who the mysterious person sleeping the community garden shed is. When the Vanderbeekers do discover…
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Book Review: Calculated
by Nova McBee Josephine River’s world is made up of numbers. She sees the world in calculations, allowing her to mathematically predict things before they happen and also to make the best business moves after a mere glance at the numbers. When Jo leaves her father’s business to join a company that works with prodigies,…
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Book Review: Fawkes
by Nadine Brandes publisher’s synopsis Thomas Fawkes has longed for the day when he will receive his color mask. He is certain that he will bond with the color Gray and finally be able to drive the Stone Plague out of his eye. Sure, no one else has ever managed to color speak the Stone…
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The Ink Drinker Book Box
You may have noticed that I keep talking about the “Ink Drinker Book Box”. What is this Ink Drinker Book Box? I’m glad you asked. The Ink Drinker Book Box, or Ink Drinker as I shorten it to, is a book box company, ran by me, focusing on clean reads. Every other month, I select…
