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    Spectr vol. 1 by Jordan L. Hawk

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    A novella series is tough to review; each book is just a little too short to write about on its own and trying to do the whole series at once is super tiring. But I really liked these books so I’m gonna give it a shot. Hunter of demons So basically all these books are short, but good. I do prefer full-length novels to almost anything else, but novellas are fun because you can finish reading them super quickly. They’re like bon-bons! Bon-bons filled with demons. SPECTR has a somewhat typical paranormal worldbuilding with demons, psychics, and special agents who solve paranormal crimes. Luckily I love all that stuff! This…

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    Fighting Gravity by Leah Petersen

    July 7, 2015

    A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles

    October 31, 2014

    Jackdaw by K.J. Charles

    July 9, 2015
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    Mystic, Remnant, Some Kind of Magic

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    I read this because of Memory! Also G. Willow Wilson is writing Ms. Marvel now (which I very much enjoyed) and I wanted to try another of her books. This one’s about two friends: one destined to be a great magician and one who, well, isn’t. It is super short– maybe too short, as the story moves along at a breakneck pace and character development suffers as a result. With only 96 pages there isn’t a whole heap of room for anything but the main plot. The beginning was so strong that I had high expectation for the rest of the book. Unfortunately, the pacing was way too fast and…

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    14 things I love about working at a library

    November 21, 2014

    Meatworks by Jordan Castillo Price

    August 6, 2015

    Sand and Ruin and Gold by Alexis Hall

    July 13, 2015
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    One-Eyed Jack by Elizabeth Bear

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    Things I have a soft spot for: gods (or something similar) trying to make it in America, odes to places not much oded to, boyfriends, personifications of cities gaining sentience. Things this book has: all that! Plus Elvis! Any book with American-grown gods is going to be compared to Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, but what’s different about One-Eyed Jack is that they’re not so much GODS as personifications of cities (or certain genres of media!) given life. Their choices affect the city; the city in return affects them. So, for example, if a formerly-important city dries up and turns into a ghost town, the personification either dies, too, or they…

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    Prosperity by Alexis Hall

    December 18, 2014

    The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin (2012)

    January 19, 2015

    Bound by Megan Derr

    August 27, 2015
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    Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall (2013)

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    As you know, I am a huge fan of Alexis Hall’s Prosperity series, which is a steampunk historical romance horror thing with amazing characters and a fantastic setting. Her Kate Kane series, meanwhile, is an urban paranormal mystery series with romance elements set in modern day London. I burnt out on urban paranormal mystery romances some years ago, but I had faith that AH wouldn’t just regurgitate the same old tropes that originally turned me off the genre. And he didn’t! A lot of the story elements ARE the same as other urban fantasy series– there are werewolves and vampires and witches, the protagonist is a half-faerie princess PI with…

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    Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles (2014)

    January 11, 2015

    Glitterland and Aftermath by Alexis Hall

    August 19, 2015

    Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

    December 23, 2014
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    The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson

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    I really wanted to like this book more than I did! The first third of the story is kick-ass: contemporary setting with wonderful characters, strong protagonist voice, and mysterious foreshadowings. Then the rest of it happened, and I lost the plot. Part of the problem is that the first third is so VERY strongly rooted in contemporary YA language/style. It’s Real Life and it’s totally convincing. And then the Chaos incident happened and things got weird.

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    Peripheral People by Reesa Herberth & Michelle Moore

    July 22, 2015

    The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin (2012)

    January 19, 2015

    There Will Be Phlogston, vN, The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

    September 4, 2015
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    Runaways, Vol. 1-3 by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona

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    Okay, so this is the first major story arc for Runaways (I think). These three volumes comprise a complete story, so theoretically you could stop there and be perfectly happy![1. Especially because I’m in the second series right now and it’s not as good, nope.] I was perfectly happy, because I love stories about teenage superheroes having personal problems. The fact that their personal problems consisted of evil supervillian parents was just icing on the cake. Other personal problems: friendship, learning to trust, betrayal, romance and squishy teenage feelings, sometimes sounding like they spent too much time watching Dawson’s Creek or whatever show was popular back when this series ran,…

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    REVIEW: Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott

    April 24, 2012

    Book Expo America Day 1 Recap

    June 5, 2013

    Steampunk and court intrigue: a review of The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

    April 1, 2014
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    Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

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    Yes, the TV show came before the book! Which explains why I kept thinking “this feels like an adaptation.” I have a love-hate relationship with book adaptations of movies; mostly they always feel derivative and pointless, and not even Neil Gaiman can make one great. The Neverwhere novelization is better than most, but it still can’t top the TV show. The problem might be because when you’re writing an adaptation, you have to stick pretty close to the original source. You can expand things a little (like internal dialogue or whatever), but basically you’ve got a paint-by-numbers kind of thing. It ends up feeling very stale and forced, and it’s…

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    Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles

    August 12, 2019

    Tidying up for the Book Blogger Organization Challenge

    February 8, 2015

    Tournament of Losers by Megan Derr

    February 13, 2016

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Here There Be Books is a book review database for queer (LGBTQ+) science fiction/fantasy romance books.

Romance as in either a book focused on the romantic relationship between two (or more) people, with a happy ending; OR a book with a romantic subplot (and probably a happy ending because I’m a sucker for those).

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