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    Love Lessons by Heidi Cullinan

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    I think this was my first New Adult book! Right? Or at least the first NA book I’ve recognized as NA since NA became a thing. College-age protagonists falling in love and causing drama and making new friends and moving away from home for the first time and presumably doing homework between making out and music club. Love Lessons! Yes!

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

    August 6, 2014

    Spectered Isle by K.J. Charles

    April 8, 2018

    The Bone Key by Sarah Monette

    July 3, 2015
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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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    November 21, 2014

    Think of England by K.J. Charles

    October 2, 2016

    Adrien English Mystery series by Josh Lanyon

    August 12, 2015
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    Point of Hopes by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett

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    I didn’t think there could be a more romantically-frustrating book than Luck in the Shadows, but surprise! There is, and it’s called Point of Hopes. Okay, sure, it’s not REALLY a romance. It’s a fantasy-mystery set in an alternative medieval Italy, a sort of police procedural with fascinating world-building and wonderful characters! I just really wanted there to be more kissing. My misunderstanding might have come from some Goodreads tags, which put it in m/m romance. I mean…it technically IS, but it took 200 pages for somebody to even THINK that somebody else was cute. That’s nearly half a book gone before there’s even any sly flirtation, and that definitely…

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    Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling (1997)

    February 7, 2015

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    February 8, 2015

    My new favorite ebook app: Marvin!

    March 7, 2014
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    There Will Be Phlogston, vN, The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

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    Desperately trying to play catch-up, as always! Here’s three tiny reviews of books I’ve read several months ago. There Will Be Phlogston – Alexis Hall I hated Byron Kae’s sister in previous books because she made her sibling’s life very unhappy, but it turns out she’s more complex than just “horrible bully.” She wants to escape her terrible parents! She feels stifled by society and its expectations! She wants to find love! And she finds it, alongside a super repressed gay guy and their boyfriend. Surprise! It’s a threesome! And way more complicated than that, of course, because Alexis Hall does nothing simple in his books. Anyway, I loved it.…

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    Skip Trace by Kelly Jensen and Jenn Burke

    October 23, 2016

    Peripheral People by Reesa Herberth & Michelle Moore

    July 22, 2015

    The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

    June 3, 2014
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    Bound by Megan Derr

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    Scribd popped this up in my recommended reads (pre-romance purge) and I added it to my TBR mostly because a) the cover is pretty and b) stories about princes and intrigue and soldiers and whatnot are fun! And yeah, Bound turned out to be a pretty fun book. Its best feature is its characters, who are full of emotional depth and heartbreak, aka my siren song. They’re also fun because they have such great personalities, though there’s also plenty of plot to keep things interesting. There are disguises! Spies and courtly knightly people! Wartime camp stuff! Castles and myths and yearning! Slowly falling in love despite starting off on a…

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    Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

    July 16, 2015

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

    August 6, 2014

    The Bone Key by Sarah Monette

    July 3, 2015
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    Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

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    This was a VERY exciting book! Not only because of the body horror human-animal hybrid situation, but because Whyborne and the gang get out of the country and head over to Egypt! Where it turns out Dr. Christine has a Secret Boyfriend! And there are, like, curses or something! It’s a little predictable in that I guessed at least two important plot points before they happened, but it was also super fun to read. Honestly, it reminded me of all the best parts of The Mummy, only with more than one female protagonist. Dr. Christine is there, of course, and she is forever my favorite of the series. She’s dealing…

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    A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

    November 23, 2014

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    October 25, 2016

    Meatworks by Jordan Castillo Price

    August 6, 2015
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    Glitterland and Aftermath by Alexis Hall

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    I’d previously read and fallen in love with Alexis Hall’s various fantasy series, but hadn’t tried any of his contemporary books. Glitterland is about a super grumpy[1. in his own words: “The truth was, I’d rather be a dick than a lunatic. I’d rather be hated than pitied.”] writer who has BPD/anxiety problems, many trust issues, and an inability to NOT cause trouble for himself or others. Somehow he stumbles across the sweetest (and somewhat ditzy) Essex model to ever walk the face of the earth, and they fall in love. Gradually, and with ASh denying everything along the way. There is dialect! SO MUCH dialect. It takes a heap…

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    Meatworks by Jordan Castillo Price

    August 6, 2015

    The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper (2007)

    January 12, 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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    Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling (1997)

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