Month: January 2023
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Book Review: Kick Ball Slay by Doug Dorsey
Full of suspense, heart, and intrigue, Kick Ball Slay is the perfect murder mystery with charming characters and a strong start to a new series…
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Book Review: Truly Devious (Books 1-3) by Maureen Johnson
When Stevie Bell is accepted into Ellingham Academy, a school for gifted students, she thinks it’s the chance of a lifetime to solve the ‘Truly Devious’ murders. What she doesn’t anticipate is a classmate turning up dead…
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Book Review: Out of Human Sight by Sophie Parkes
Wonderfully atmospheric and written with both strong and delicate writing, Out of Human Sight is a dark and terrific historical read…
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Book Review: The Man Without Shelter by Indrajit Garai
Another interesting work of fiction from Indrajit Garai. I recently read The Bridge of Little Jeremy and despite it being a different kind of story, I enjoyed this one just as much…
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Book Review: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
As much as I love this series and its setting and characters, I just didn’t click with this one as much as I did with books one and two. The change of POV surprised me because I stop reading the summaries at this point in any series…
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Book Review: The Betrayal by Doug Dorsey
A haunting concept, yet totally gripping. The first in a series of three books, The Betrayal takes a look at a dystopian future under Sovereign Alexander Wraith who comes to power after much of humanity has been wiped out. Though the world is relatively united, it’s far from having archived true peace…
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Book Review: All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
For the past year, Isabelle Drake hasn’t had a good night’s sleep. Really, she’s lucky when she manages to get an hour or two. It started when her son, Mason, was taken and has yet to be found. She doesn’t care what measures she has to go to find the culprit be it attending true…
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Book Review: Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
Though I wouldn’t personally call this much of a thriller, Things We Do in the Dark did not disappoint…
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Book Review: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
There’s nothing better than finding a mystery that actually keeps me on my toes and surprises me. When you read a lot in this genre, it’s easy to start recognizing the patterns. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle very much has the feeling of a classic mystery (namely Agatha Christie), but it also feels…
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Book Review: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
A lot of thought went into this book and it shows. At another time I might have been more in a place to absorb the complexity, but as my final read of the year, it had my head spinning a little bit…