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Author: Angela Meyer
Publisher: Ventura Press
First Published: 01 August 2018
Rating: 4 stars
“This water is so clear I can lean over and see myself. I am Narcissus, in love with the image of my suffering, fixed in place and soon to drown.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Ventura Press and NetGalley!
Author: Josie Jaffrey
First Published: 25 June 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“Their folktales had memories long enough to tell them what he was. He might be harmless to them, but he was still strigoi mort.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Josie for sending a copy my way!
Author: Sappho
Translator: John Maxwell Edmonds
Publisher: Dover Publications
First Published: 15 February 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“For those I have done good to
Do me the greatest wrong,”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Dover Publications and NetGalley!
Author: Amanda Skenandore
Publisher: Kensington Books
First Published: 24 April 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“Pestilence? Alma didn’t know the meaning, but her mother spoke as if the words itself tasted foul. She grabbed the apron and collected the clothes, examining each garment for some sign of this awful pestilence.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Kensington Books and NetGalley!
Author: Adrienne Young
Publisher: Wednesday Books
First Published: 24 April 2018
Rating: 4.5 stars
“I wouldn’t last in this village the whole winter. I couldn’t wait for the thaw. I had to find a way home.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own. Thank you so much to Wednesday Books, St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley!
Author: Krissy Kneen
Publisher: Text Publishing
First Published: 31 August 2017
Rating: 5 stars
“I shellfish down into myself, now as I did them when I met her, curling up into the calcium carbonate whorls of me.”
Author: Mirandi Riwoe
Publisher: Seizure
First Published: 24 August 2017
Rating: 4.5 stars
“In vain, her eyes search beyond the other houses and palm trees for a glimpse of the sea. She will run away. She will flee to the water’s edge and the Ocean Queen will tell her what to do”
Author: Madeline Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
First Published: 19 April 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead then anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own.
Author: Sarah Henstra
Publisher: Black Cat
First Published: 13 March 2018
Rating: 5 stars
“This is the trouble with myth. Each of us scoops out our own rotten core and spits it out on stage. We stand around the heap of smoking corpses and declare it fate.”
I will start by saying that I was given an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
First Published: 1932
Rating: 3.5 stars
“’We’ve gone on controlling ever since. It hasn’t been very good for truth, of course. But it’s been very good for happiness. One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it Mr Watson – paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.’”
