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Book Review : Unnatural Magic by C.M. Waggoner
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Book Review : Unnatural Magic by C.M. Waggoner

Onna can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she’s denied a place at the nation’s premier arcane academy….

Tsira is a troll who never quite fit into her clan, despite being the leader’s daughter. She decides to strike out on her own and look for work in a human city, but on her way she stumbles upon the body of a half-dead human soldier in the snow… Continue reading Book Review : Unnatural Magic by C.M. Waggoner

Book Review : Bad Things (Tristan & Danika Book 1) by R.K. Lilley
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Book Review : Bad Things (Tristan & Danika Book 1) by R.K. Lilley

Danika hasn’t had an easy life. Being insanely attracted to bad boys has never helped make it easier. One look at Tristan, and every brain cell she possessed went up in smoke. This man was trouble with a capital T. It was a given.
She knew better. Bad boys were bad. Especially for her. Considering her history, it was crazy to think otherwise. So why did crazy have to feel so damn fine? Continue reading Book Review : Bad Things (Tristan & Danika Book 1) by R.K. Lilley

Book Review : Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao
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Book Review : Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao

Will love break the spell? After cruelly rejecting Bao, the poor physician’s apprentice who loves her, Lan, a wealthy nobleman’s daughter, regrets her actions. So when she finds Bao’s prized flute floating in his boat near her house, she takes it into her care, not knowing that his soul has been trapped inside it by an evil witch, who cursed Bao, telling him that only love will set him free. Though Bao now despises her, Lan vows to make amends and help break the spell. Continue reading Book Review : Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao

Book Review : We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
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Book Review : We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise, I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead… Continue reading Book Review : We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

Book Review : Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
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Book Review : Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Continue reading Book Review : Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo