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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Book Review: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Catherynne M. Valente

Tweet Synopsis: One part Alice, one part Peter, three parts Grimm, two parts Lang, dash of modern, sprinkle of big words all adds up to this book #vocablesson #modernfairytale

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Bright Ruined Things

by Samantha Cohoe

Transparency Note: I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. CHILLS. I finished with actual chills. When was the last time a book gave me actual chills? I can't even think of a time h...

My Fine Fellow

by Jennieke Cohen

Is that star rating generous, possibly. But I finished it last night and just enjoyed it too much to give it three stars. World-Building: it's hard to write a historical novel, I'd assume, because you rely on the reader having some sort...

The Bronzed Beasts

by Roshani Chokshi

It's strange to review the third book in the series because anything you say is a spoiler for previous reads. So let me just say this, that ending was everything I wanted and more. Seriously. It was perfection. I loved this series and hi...

Sing Me Forgotten

by Jessica S. Olson

I'm torn on the rating of this book. Part of me feels like the drudgery of the first 1/3 of the book and bland-ness of the second 1/3 of the book deserve 2 stars (I nearly stopped reading) ... but the other part of me feels like the comp...

The Project

by Courtney Summers

DNF at 35% Plot: it constantly feels like something thrilling is about to happen ... I'm sure eventually it does, but I'm just not able to stick it out. World-Building: it is modern-day, so there isn't a lot of world-building to be d...

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Book Review: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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