Category: Books
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REVIEW: Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé
The Official Description: The Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of codependent sisterhood, the struggle to claim one’s own space, and the power of secrets Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. Moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over.…
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REVIEW: Relationship Material by Jenya Keefe
The descriptive bit: Evan Doyle is a registered nurse living with a panic disorder that is all part of the history he carries with him. It’s a history no one knows about because Evan’s life has been reinvented after a violent and traumatic past. It was a past that even forced Evan to abandon what…
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REVIEW: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
The Official Description: For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can’t quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob — a young lawyer with a normal house, a normal fiancee, and an utterly normal life — hopes that this strange family secret will…
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REVIEW: Waking Up The Sun by Laura Bailo
The Official Description: When Lander accepts a dare to go into the forest at night he thinks it’ll be easy. He just needs to walk in and then come out, right? But that’s easier said than done. It’s like the trees have a mind of their own, and they are stopping him from finding his way…
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REVIEW: The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
The official description: As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus. (GoodReads.com)…
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REVIEW: Through the Tears by Leigh M. Lorien
The official description: Huge, horrid creatures with a taste for human flesh have been invading Seacliff Manor and its surrounding lands for years. Ghouls are coming from another world through portals made of magic. No one knows why or how, but nothing good ever comes with them. During a hunting trip, Eamon encounters one such monster…
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REVIEW: My Baby Chased Away the Blues by R.A. Thorn
Official Description: It’s 1925 in Los Angeles, and motor patrol officer Del Randolph keeps making one mistake after another. Struggling to keep his job with the Los Angeles Police Department, Del is also lonely and heartbroken after his last lover left him. But then he meets Ev, a gentle but cynical invert, and has his…
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REVIEW: The Falls of Wyona by David Brendan Hopes
Official description: In The Falls of the Wyona by David Brendan Hopes, four friends growing up on the banks of a wild Appalachian river just after WWII discover, almost at the same time, the dangerous, alluring Falls and the perils of their own maturing hearts. Seen through the eyes of his best friend Arden, football…
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REVIEW: Another Dance by L.A. Ashton
Official Description: Kaito Watanabe has finally nabbed an interview with his idol, Cristian Alvarez. Kaito is a journalist who’s spent his entire life looking up to the figure-skating champion. Cristian’s passion on the ice unearthed a love of dance in Kaito and made him believe in the power of artistic expression. Now Kaito is face-to-face…
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REVIEW: The Dragon’s Rebel by Jacqueline Rohrbach
Official Description: Cheron, former rebel leader, and newly crowned king, comes to Wren Gardens on a holy mission to free his goddess from exile and bring peace to his kingdom, but he’s distracted by an unholy and very beautiful concubine, Ekos. Ekos may be more than a simple love slave, though. The King of Wren Gardens…
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Review: Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black by Marcus Sedgwick; Julian Sedgwick
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black by Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgwick is quite a journey. This book is not only beautiful with the drawings and poetry but also engaging and touching as the prose takes the reader on a journey. Harry is a conscientious objector, wanted to be a war artist and is…
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