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I am here with December Wrap Up. This month I read a total of 12 books and a total of 4,208 pages.
Tag: Book Review
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’.” Continue reading “The Silence of the Girls”
The Kingmaker Chronicles
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.”
November 2018 Wrap Up
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I am here with November Wrap Up. This month I read a total of 8 books and a total of 3,238 pages.
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter
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 …”
Continue reading “The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter”
Outrun the Wind
Author: Elizabeth Tammi
Publisher: Flux Books
First Published: 27 November 2018
Rating: 4 stars
“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!
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.”
October 2018 Wrap Up
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I am here with October Wrap Up. This month I read a total of 7 books and 1,841 pages.
The Silver Queen
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!
September 2018 Wrap Up
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I am here with September Wrap Up. This month I read a total of 4 books and 1,231 pages.
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