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July 12, 2024

Iron Flame

Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros, 2023 (Spoilers) So, our Fourth Wing’s lovely Violet Sorrengail is recovering from her Squad’s victorious battle with Wyvern and Venin…

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July 7, 2024

Fourth Wing

Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, 2023 (Spoilers) We start by flipping open the hefty hardcover and seeing a gorgeous map of The Continent. Consider my…

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June 30, 2024

Safe Haven

Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks, 2010 (novel) & Safe Haven, Lasse Hallstrom, 2013 (film) (Spoilers) Since Safe Haven (the film) is one of my long…

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June 21, 2024

A Court of Silver Flames

A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas, 2021 (Spoilers) Maas’s last (as of now) installment in the ACOTAR series is the Cassian and…

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June 1, 2024

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors, 2022 Apologies if anybody takes issue with this comparison but the themes in Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein—hard truths about…

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May 18, 2024

Atonement

Atonement, Ian McEwan, 2001 (Spoilers) In a novel so honest it unsettles me, Ian McEwan’s Atonement gives the full and complete narrative of Briony…

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May 4, 2024

A Court of Frost and Starlight

A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas, 2018 (Spoilers) ACOTAR’s A Court of Frost and Starlight is different than the rest of…

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April 22, 2024

A Court of Wings and Ruin

A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J Maas, 2017 (Spoilers)  And now for the war!  In ACOTAR’s first installment, A Court of Thorns…

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April 12, 2024

Birthday Girl

Birthday Girl, Penelope Douglas, 2018 (Spoilers)  This review is PG-14! Apologies to those who aren’t fans of reading smut but I liked this book…

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April 6, 2024

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 1847  (Spoilers)  You know that get-to-know-you question, “if you could have dinner with any famous person, dead or alive, who…

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