Category: book review
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Book Review: Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton
If you’re a Harry Potter fan, then Tom Felton’s Draco Malfoy is legendary. The character was simultaneously so entertaining while also being infuriating and I felt like whenever he was on screen, you couldn’t help but find him completely enchanting. When I learned that Tom Felton had released a memoir that detailed much of his…
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Book Review: Vox by Christina Dalcher
I picked up Vox at a used book sale because the premise was so fascinating that it immediately hooked me in. Dalcher predicates her story on a United States ruled by powerful, religious men who believe the only meaningful way forward for the country is to silence women. It immediately makes you think of the…
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Book Review: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I am not a huge romance reader, but I love Ali Hazelwood. Her STEM/academia settings are among my favourite settings that a book can be in, and her characters are always quirky and loveable.
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Book Review: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Title: The Year of Magical ThinkingAuthor: Joan DidionGenre: Memoir, autobiography, non-fictionPublisher: Highbridge AudioPublication Date: October 5, 2005Format: AudiobookLength: 5 hours Read if you like: stories of grief and mourning, journalistic writing, trying to make sense of tragedy, processing of trauma, research on grief Rating: Sometimes a book comes to you at exactly the right time,…
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Book Review: Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
As always, when my Illumicrate box arrived on my front step last month the book inside was a surprise. I love never knowing what to expect until my subscription gets here because often I’ve had my eye on the exact book that I receive. This was the case with Starling House, and I ended up…
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Best Books Read in 2023
2023 was a record-breaker for me. I read a full 100 books and so many of them were amazing. While I read more new releases this year than I have in years past, I’m still making my way through a TBR list that’s several years long, so not every book I read was released in…
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Book Review: A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
A Master of Djinn was a whirlwind of a surprise. I typically love fantasy novels with settings similar to this one so I knew I’d enjoy this book, but I didn’t expect the steampunk, murder mystery, detective-style approach to be so fun! At any given time, a lot was happening, but the world-building was so…
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Book Review: Gold by Raven Kennedy
Gold was one of my most anticipated releases of 2023, so I picked it up the second that it was released. It was a beast, coming in at well over 600 pages, and it accomplished a lot in terms of moving the story forward. I probably should have guessed that the book would be mostly…
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Book Review: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
As you’ll know if you’ve been here awhile, I rarely read historical fiction, but I needed a book for a very long drive and this one was readily available at my library. I’m so glad that I picked it up because I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Book Review: A Soul of Blood and Ash by Jennifer Armentrout
The Blood and Ash series is one of the first fantasy series that I got into when I first came back to reading a couple of years ago, but over time, I’ve struggled to stay as into the books as I initially was. I remember being so gripped by the first book that I immediately…
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