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5.0 / 5.0
Marcia Peck's WATER MUSIC: A Cape Cod Story is a touching, alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking tale of family strife and love—told with the innocent wistfulness...
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4.5 / 5.0
A myth retelling that uses familiar fantasy and romance genre tropes, Rhiannon Hargadon's QUEENS OF MOIRAI is a refreshing, enchanting first installment in a proposed...
November 1, 2023
SAINT RICHARD PARKER (His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia)
By Merlin FrancoRating:
3.8 / 5.0
Author Merlin Franco’s satirical wit and keen, absurdist humor are blunted in SIR RICHARD PARKER (His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand,...
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Rating:
4.8 / 5.0
Michael Karolewski's THE SOUL SECTOR is a complex, emotionally charged fever dream of a story, a lesson in morality and coping with grief that introduces...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
For a vampire story, Kim Catanzarite's STAKED is a startlingly warm and wholesome tale of love, found friendship, strength of will, and purity of heart—with...
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Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
An assured and inventive debut by Tess Bentley, VALE is an modern update of the classic Victorian romances with a neat twist that adds a...
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Rating:
4.2 / 5.0
A unique and endearing teen protagonist drives S.B. Frasca’s NOT MY FAULT, a feel-good coming-of-age novel about loneliness, relationships, and accountability.
Rating:
3.8 / 5.0
Though as a collection it never truly coheres, Guy Quartley’s DRAKOMUNDA will thoroughly please fans of Lovecraft, Howard, and the golden age of fantasy-horror.
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5.0 / 5.0
In a sea of holiday books that tread the same, well-worn paths, THE SANTA BOOK's innovative approach to the Santa Claus mythos is nothing short...
Rating:
3.3 / 5.0
Regular pupils of Iván Figueroa-Otero’s “school of life” will find much to enjoy in this well-designed volume. Its sometimes-challenging style and lack of external references...
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4.3 / 5.0
E.F. Dodd's ALMOST PERFECT is a feel-good, swoony romance full of blush-worthy moments paired with important themes of self-love and the idea that “almost perfect”...