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Release date: June 11, 2019 by Harper Voyager. Gorgeous cover alert! Largo is a bicycle messenger who delivers parcels to people all over the city, whether they are in the slums or live in a wealthy area. His girlfriend, Remy, is a performer in a theater called The Grand Dark. Largo and Remy hang out... Continue Reading →
Release date: June 25, 2019 by Knopf Books For Young Readers. Reading the blurb at Goodreads will spoil you for book one, and we're still a bit over two weeks out from release day, so I have to be careful about revealing too much. If you haven't started this series yet, the setting is a... Continue Reading →
Release date: June 11, 2019. Publisher: Crown Publishing. I have been a huge fan of Blake Crouch's for years and was honored to receive this ARC from Netgalley and Crown. I was fairly certain I would like this book, but I had no idea just *how* much. I LOVE stories like this. In the words... Continue Reading →
It took a little while for me to get sucked into the story because it took some time to connect the dots to figure out what was going on. The synopsis barely hints at what this book is about because it’s one of those stories where telling a small thing reveals even bigger things. Nothing... Continue Reading →
Release date: April 30, 2019 It was a quick, entertaining read. A psychological thriller that blurred the lines between fantasy and reality. Throughout the entire book, I was wondering if the bizarre things happening to Lauren were real or a figment of her imagination. Lauren has an encounter with a creepy woman who wants to... Continue Reading →
You know what this book had that most PNR and UF novels don’t? A lead female character who is in her late 30s. Every once and a while it’s nice to read about characters who are close to my age. It grabbed me from the start. Molly discovers that her husband is cheating on her... Continue Reading →
Gorgeous cover alert! Release date: May 7, 2019. Publisher: Thomas Nelson This is a fantasy re-telling of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. Some of the events are historical and some have been embellished by the author. The most significant fantastical aspect is the addition of magic, or spell-casting. There is an ink that masters use... Continue Reading →
The story seems to be ever increasingly rooted in Faerie. Grave magic did play a role in this although it was a small one. I miss it that Alex no longer seems to be straddling two worlds, but it may be a temporary break from that. Rather momentous things happened. Alex’s life will no longer... Continue Reading →
They're not the heroes we deserve. They're just the ones we could find. Nobody panic. Release date: May 7, 2019. Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers. If Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and The Breakfast Club had a baby...this would be it. The cast of characters... Tyler Jones (Alpha) Scarlett Jones (Diplomacy) Aurora O'Malley... Continue Reading →
