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1-2 bright spots.

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IR Approved
September 25, 2020

SUMMER’S END

By Jill Sanders
Romance
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

SUMMER’S END is a sweet and satisfying conclusion to Jill Sanders’ Wildflowers series. Full of heart, emotion, and a bit of heat, this low-stakes contemporary...

IR Approved
September 7, 2020

PIERCING THE CELESTIAL OCEAN

By Kip Koelsch
Science Fiction
Rating:
4.3 / 5.0

An ensemble cast plus inventive worldbuilding makes Kip Koelsch's PIERCING THE CELESTIAL OCEAN an engaging, memorable start to a sweeping space epic of the struggle...

July 31, 2020

HIRANA’S WAR

By Britta Jensen
Young Adult
Rating:
3.7 / 5.0

With unique magic and familiar characters facing new dangers, HIRANA’S WAR deftly continues the young adult space fantasy begun in ELOIA BORN, ably building on...

IR Approved
June 24, 2020

Taking Time … a Tale of Physics, Lust and Greed

By Mike Murphey
Fiction, Science Fiction
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

Character-driven though somewhat light on world-building, TAKING TIME handily navigates the corporate, ethical, and practical ripple effects of time travel without skimping on entertainment.

May 27, 2020

Snatch 2&20

By Luke Fellows
Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating:
2.3 / 5.0

Luke Fellows' SNATCH 2&20 falls short of its satirical Wolf of Wall Street promise, providing instead a zany story of the debauchery of Big Finance....

IR Approved
April 27, 2020

CARSON CLARE’S TRAIL GUIDE TO AVOIDING DEATH

By Bruce McCandless III and Carson McCandless
Poetry Fiction
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

CARSON CLARE’S TRAIL GUIDE TO AVOIDING DEATH is a fun, extraordinarily witty, poetry-based guide to avoiding some of life's biggest pitfalls, for young and old...

December 16, 2019

THIS DAY IS OURS

By Gretchen Jeannette
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Rating:
3.9 / 5.0

THIS DAY IS OURS is the rare realistic historical romance, blessedly devoid of  insta-love, though Gretchen Jeannette’s historical details and American Revolutionary battle scenes sometimes...

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