I finally read more Brandon Sanderson, after saying I was going to do that for… well, an embarrassingly long amount of time! (And yes, this is only a short audiobook and a graphic novel, but still!) So in Dark One: Forgotten, the audiobook by Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells, we follow Christina Walsh, a music …
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In The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang, we flit back and forth between three different time periods, 4 BCE, 1740 CE, and the present day. In the first, a young man is tasked with seducing the emperor but quickly learns that the situation is far more complicated than he expected. In the …
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In Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings, Opal unexpectedly wins the lottery, which—while giving her freedom and options she never had before—brings a lot of drama. Friends, fake friends, and people from her past keep emerging for handouts. The worst problem is Opal’s near-inability to say no when people need help, even at the expense of …
In The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder by C. L. Miller follows Freya, who’s feeling a little lost now that she’s divorced and her daughter has moved away for university. So when Freya’s free-spirited Aunt Carole calls with the news that her best friend Arthur (who was also Freya’s estranged former mentor) has died mysteriously, …
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Sometimes you find a story that somehow feels familiar, even though you’ve never read it before. This one was of those times. In Neil Gaiman’s book The Ocean at the End of the Lane, a man returns to his childhood hometown after many years away. There, he visits the farm where he used to play …
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