In Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne, Reyna is a guard in the queen’s castle, but is growing tired of being beaten down and put in danger by assassination attempts all the time. Moreover, she’s sick of hiding her relationship with Kianthe, the realm’s strongest mage. So when Reyna is briefly held hostage …
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I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In A Letter to the Luminous Deep, E. Cidnosin lives in the Deep House, a technological …
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When I finally took this book off my shelf to read it, I looked at the title and thought “oh, I bet she does care, actually.” (I was right.) In Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah has spent the last few years living in New York City, trying to make it as …
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 …
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