Tag: Fantasy
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Book Review: Rogue Secreto
by Victoria McCombs publisher’s synopsis Marsella has the unique ability to steal secrets with one glance. She keeps her identity hidden, while going under the name Rogue Secreto. The emperor hires her to read secrets of his enemies, all without realizing this masked figure who can bring empires to heel is his beloved daughter. He…
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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: 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 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…
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Book Review: The Betrayal of Eden
by Erin Phillips publisher’s synopsis Before she can rise above them all, she must first fall. I’m on the precipice of a cliff.One light breeze away from falling off. At 16, Eden Fortin sees nothing but a bright future ahead of her. With a valuable promotion on the horizon, she is granted a coveted spot…
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Book Review: Lotusfall
by Jamie Foley publisher’s synopsis Thrones have been toppled and battles won, but the war of the gods is only just beginning. The heir to the wolf-tyrant Faced with a heritage of violence, Rhu Sousuke lives in defiance of his father’s evil—and his inherited attraction to elemental power. His adoptive father offers a better path.…
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