Category: Book Reviews
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Book Review: What Comes of Attending the Commoner’s Ball
by Elisabeth Aimee Brown publisher’s synopsis If there’s one rule Hester learned during her country upbringing, it’s never accept a gift; that’s how the Folk get you. Although she’s left her farm behind, she can’t leave her superstitions, even if no one else in the capital city seems to care. Hardworking but hungry, she’s looking for…
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Book Review: Mammoth
by Brian McBride publisher’s synopsis Hardy Boys meets Indiana Jones in this new adventure novel. After the death of his father, misfit and aspiring paleontologist Tommy Rhodes seeks refuge in the ramshackle lighthouse that stands guard over the city of Mammoth, Washington. Left in disarray by years of bad weather, it’s the perfect place for…
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Book Review: The Crier Stone
by Lyndsey Lewellen publisher’s synopsis Brave the Plex. Unleash the stone. Embrace your destiny. Freshly freed from an earth-dwelling monster, Juniper Conway is stuck with a promise she never intended to make. But if rescuing Plex City from a deadly nano drug is what she vowed, it’s what she’ll do. Miles of wasteland stretch between…
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Book Review: The Springborn
by Carrie Anne Noble publisher’s synopsis An 1880’s coal town is no place for a girl with antlers. Once upon a winter’s day, a childless miner and his wife find baby Sabella in a mysterious basket. When she suddenly grows a pair of silvery gray antlers, they hide her from the world in embarrassment and…
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Book Review: The Secret Investigator of Astor Street
by Stephanie Morrill publisher’s synopsis Piper Sail knows what she to become a detective. After all, she already solved the case of her missing best friend, and there’s no shortage of crime in 1920s Chicago. But for an eighteen-year-old society girl—even one who’s currently dating a police investigator—it simply isn’t done. That is, until a girl asks…
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Book Review: The House at the Edge of Magic
by Amy Sparkes publisher’s synopsis Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman’s purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical…
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Book Review: The Floating World
by Axie Oh publisher’s synopsis Sunho lives in the Under World, a land of perpetual darkness. An ex-soldier, he can remember little of his life from before two years ago, when he woke up alone with only his name and his sword. Now he does odd-jobs to scrape by, until he comes across the score…
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Book Review: Illuminary
by Chawna Schroeder publisher’s synopsis Glimpse the past, illuminate the future. Yosarai Patican dreams of becoming an illuminator in a country that values art above all else. A lofty goal that finally seems within reach when she earns a position at the prestigious Academy of the Seven Arts. Although Yosarai loathes to leave behind her…
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Book Review: Embergold
by Rachelle Nelson publisher’s synopsis Fire dreamed of water, but the first sip would be its last. Gilde has spent her life isolated in the wild marshlands, a place too wet for the dragon to go. She’s safe there, according to her father. So why is he asking her to leave with him now that…
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Book Review: The Well of Ascension
by Brandon Sanderson publisher’s synopsis Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. Three separate armies attack. As the siege tightens, an ancient legend seems to…
Hailey Huntington 