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The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee picks up a few months after The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue ended. We find Felicity Montague struggling to make ends meet while she tries to get into medical school, which, as a woman, she’s barred from. Then, an unexpected proposition sends her fleeing …
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In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle (or Ari) meets Dante one summer at the pool. They become close, which is unexpected for Ari, who isn’t used to having friends. Ari is angry a lot of the time, and grappling with becoming a young man, and with …
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I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Elizabeth Lim’s debut novel Spin the Dawn, a young woman named Maia disguises herself as a man to …
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Reverie by Ryan la Sala. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Kane Montgomery has no memory of the last few months. All he knows is he crashed a car into a …
Fans of The Hate U Give, I have one for you! SLAY by Brittney Morris features Kiera Johnson, a senior in high school, who leads a double life. No one—her parents, sister, best friend, even her boyfriend—knows that for the past three years, she’s been the developer of an online VR video game. SLAY is …
Thank goodness for getting into a series late, because I didn’t have to wait at all between books! There won’t be spoilers for this second book here, but there might be some for its predecessor Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor, so if you haven’t read that, proceed with caution (unless you don’t care, then …
For a book I picked up on impulse, I really enjoyed this! In Laini Taylor’s novel Strange the Dreamer, Lazlo Strange grows up an orphan, raised by monks. Then, he starts work at the great library of Zosma, reading fairy tales, histories, and of course the stories of the lost city of Weep. But then, …
