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    The Only Option by Megan Derr

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    What a sweet little book! I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book, partly because the cover and the series name makes it look like a much darker book than it actually is. It looks like it’s full of drama and depressing things and angst, but it’s almost completely the opposite. I mean, there’s still a little angst, but it’s the good kind, the delicious kind that makes the sweet goopy parts that much more fun. It also has many of my favorite story elements: grumpy dudes being pursued by rays of sunshine; dragons!; wizards!; accidental/forced marriage; road trips; and pining. So much pining! I’m a huge sucker for…

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

    August 6, 2014

    Threshold by Jordan L. Hawk (2013)

    May 4, 2015

    A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles

    October 31, 2014
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    REVIEW: Clockwork Heart by Heidi Cullinan

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    Alt history, yay! Airships! Steampunk that’s more than just fashion! Austrian princesses who need their own books ASAP! This was pretty different from her other books, actually. Which is great, because authors should try new things. For instance: the sexytimes vocabulary was way different than her usual, possibly because she was going for a dated/historical feel? I liked this book, on the whole, though I’m not into exhibitionism/gang-bangs/etc. and the two leads here totally are into it which made it a little awkward. They were very sweet, though, and I liked how it had action/espionage mixed with a romantic plot. Read: January 15, 2016

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    Point of Hopes by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett

    September 17, 2015

    In Discretion by Reesa Herberth

    August 8, 2015

    Fighting Gravity by Leah Petersen

    July 7, 2015
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    Tournament of Losers by Megan Derr

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    Previous attempts at Megan Derr’s older books have been somewhat hit-or-miss, but the summary for Tournament of Losers sounded like something right up my alley, so I decided to give it a go. And that was an EXCELLENT DECISION, y’all! Tournament of Losers is the BEST Megan Derr book I’ve read yet! I think it’s a combo of increased writing skills + many tropes I adore + completely adorable characters + wonderful worldbuilding. One of my complaints about MD’s earlier books was the treatment/lack of women characters, how everybody’s white, and sometimes-weird chemistry between the leads. With her newer books, many of those things have been addressed. For instance, in…

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    Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

    January 8, 2015

    Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    August 20, 2015

    One-Eyed Jack by Elizabeth Bear

    July 27, 2015
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    The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton

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    The Philosopher Kings gets off to a bad start, tbh. The Just City has separated into multiple cities, all with differing ideas about what Plato Really Meant, Aristotle-the-fly disappeared, Pallas Athene never came back, and worst of all Simmea, my favorite character from The Just City, dies. She’s murdered during an art raid. She’s dead! And that really hurt. Apollo didn’t much like it either, and he spends the majority of the book trying to come back from his overwhelming grief. Maia is also dealing with things, including her rapist from The Just City wanting to apologize and be friends again. Everybody’s depressed from the raids and people dying and…

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    Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling

    January 8, 2015

    Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles

    August 12, 2019

    Tidying up for the Book Blogger Organization Challenge

    February 8, 2015
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    Peripheral People by Reesa Herberth & Michelle Moore

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    I picked up Peripheral People because of the scifi MYSTERY angle, with the romance being a bonus. (I’m also always on the lookout for scifi books starring people other than straight white dudes. Especially ones with aliens! Just fyi.) Scifi mysteries are far and few and I desperately need to find more of them. Especially if they’re as good as Peripheral People! Admittedly, this one has a serial killer, a plot detail I’m not much into, but the rest of the story kept me occupied enough that I ended up not minding the serial killer so much. It was a twisty enough mystery that I didn’t even figure out who…

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    The Bone Key by Sarah Monette

    July 3, 2015

    REVIEW: Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott

    April 24, 2012

    Jackdaw by K.J. Charles

    July 9, 2015
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    The Just City by Jo Walton (2015)

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    I’ll be honest: my philosophy 101 class was so boring and terrible I’ve mostly forgotten everything about it. The only thing I DO remember is the thing about the caves, and that’s only because it came up in some of my other (non-philosophy) classes. So when I saw that Jo Walton had written a book about a city built based upon Plato’s Republic, I was super worried it’d be dry and boring. Even though I LOVE Jo Walton’s writing! I was still worried, because of the subject matter. My darling readers, it was not dry or boring and it was WONDERFUL. SO WONDERFUL.

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    Peripheral People by Reesa Herberth & Michelle Moore

    July 22, 2015

    Bound by Megan Derr

    August 27, 2015

    Clariel by Garth Nix

    November 12, 2014
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    Liberty and Other Stories by Alexis Hall

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    After falling in love with the world and characters of Prosperity, I jumped on the chance to read this collection of short stories/novellas. There are both prequel and sequel stories, both origin stories and what-happened-afterwards. All the characters from Prosperity showed up again AND there were some fun new ones!

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    My new favorite ebook app: Marvin!

    March 7, 2014

    Spectr vol. 1 by Jordan L. Hawk

    September 25, 2015

    Think of England by K.J. Charles

    October 2, 2016
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    Prosperity by Alexis Hall

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    Memory wrote an excellent review of Prosperity back in October, and it was SO excellent that I went on NetGalley and found Prosperity and requested it for review myself! And I’m so glad I did, because I LOVED it. There is steampunk (or maybe gaslamp)! There is alternate history (kinda)![1. It’s actually set in an alternate universe! Love love love alternate universes.] There are air ships and monsters living behind the sky and lesbians and a bisexual protagonist and crime lords and a nonbinary ship captain and a floating city and, really, the only thing missing was a band of sky pirates. (Maybe they’ll be in another book.)

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    In Discretion by Reesa Herberth

    August 8, 2015

    The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson

    September 25, 2014

    Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling (1997)

    February 7, 2015
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