Category: Review

Blog Tour: The Dysasters

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Author: P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Publisher: Wednesday Books

First Published: 26 February 2019

Rating: 4 stars

 

 

“Whatever the reason, Foster didn’t care as long as she didn’t have to return to the mind-numbing day care they call public school.”

 

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 Michelle Cashman and team at Wednesday Books for sending a copy my way. I am very thankful for be part of this Blog Tour.

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99 Nights in Logar

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Author: Jamil Jan Kochai

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

First Published: 8 January 2019

Rating: 3.5 stars

 

“The interpreter asked us if we truly meant to find the ghosts of your dead children. ‘Even ghosts need company,’ Jawed said.”  

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Blood Queen

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Blood Queen

 

Author: Joanna Courtney

Publisher: Piatkus Books

First Published: 6 September 2018

Rating: 5 stars

 

 

“My heart was not forged simply but it was forged strong and it beat out a rhythm I can never regret. I did not ask to be queen but neither did I refuse. I made my destiny and I followed it all across Alba to its throne and its tomb. I was Lady Macbeth and I was Queen and I can only hope that in some small way Alba was richer for it.”

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The Silence of the Girls

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The Silence of the Girls

 

Author: Pat Barker

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

First Published: 30 August 2018

Rating: 5 stars

 

 

“Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles … How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him ‘the butcher’.”     Read More

The Kingmaker Chronicles

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Author: Amanda Bouchet

Publisher: Scribe

Books in series: A Promise of Fire, Breath of Fire and Heart on Fire

Rating: 4 stars

 

 

“Have I cheated death again? Hades must be allergic to me.” 

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The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter

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Author: Theodora Goss

Publisher: Saga Press

First Published: 20 June 2017

Rating: 5 stars

 

“We are no longer in the age of Charles Dickens or George Eliot, after all. We are Modern. And, of course monstrous …”

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Outrun the Wind

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Author: Elizabeth Tammi 

Publisher: Flux Books

First Published:  27 November 2018

Rating: 4 stars

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“I sigh as we walk into the hall, maybe for the last time with Kahina. I want to twist time around myself make it bend and grow where I need it most”  

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 Flux Books and NetGalley!

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Beautiful Revolutionary

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Beautiful Revolutionary

 

Author: Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Publisher: Scribe

First Published: 30 July  2018

Rating: 5 stars

 

 
“This life is the dawn of revolution and she is ready to meet it in a necklace of thorns, sprouting black feathers, adorned with the reddest roses.”  

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The Silver Queen

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Author: Josie Jaffrey

First Published: 17 October 2018

Rating: 4.5 stars

 
“It was easy to forget what legends meant when they were enshrined in stories, and that was what the King has always been to most of the guards: a story.”  

 

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!

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A Superior Spectre

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Superior Spectre

Author: Angela Meyer

Publisher: Ventura Press

First Published: 01 August 2018

Rating: 4 stars

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“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!

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