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    Any Old Diamonds by K.J. Charles

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    K.J. Charles is one of my favorite authors, and I love basically every single one of her books– and this one is no exception. It’s very difficult to write a coherent review for a favorite author because all my positive feelings overwhelm my analytical thoughts until my brain is just a big ball of “yay, this book was good!” Well, it IS good and I DID love it, and if you haven’t read K.J. Charles yet, you desperately need to. Any Old Diamonds is about Alec, a son of a duke with a grudge against his father and step-mother. He’s desperately in need of money and revenge, and so he…

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    Mystic, Remnant, Some Kind of Magic

    August 16, 2015

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

    September 4, 2015

    A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

    November 23, 2014
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    Spectered Isle by K.J. Charles

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    Let’s speed past the fact that I’ve been on a 1.5 year hiatus from blogging and have fallen out of writing for fun or even reading and let’s get right to the review: This is the first in KJ Charles’ newest series Green Men; it’s a historical horror-fantasy romance set in interwar England, roughly connected to her book Simon Feximal. This first book is about a disgraced archaeologist (+1) and an upper-crust sarcastic fucker (+1), with a mysterious evil entity and malignant government forces providing much of the antagonism. I really like the fantasy setting, particularly as it incorporates the older, scarier British paranormal elements of a similar kind to…

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    The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton

    August 10, 2015

    Stormhaven by Jordan L. Hawk

    July 29, 2015

    Fighting Gravity by Leah Petersen

    July 7, 2015
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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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    Point of Hopes by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett

    September 17, 2015

    The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles

    September 27, 2014

    The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

    June 3, 2014
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    Skip Trace by Kelly Jensen and Jenn Burke

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    This is the 3rd Chaos Station book! I haven’t reviewed the first two here, but I enjoyed them and obviously kept reading the series. The first book is a second-chance lovers romance, with scifi thriller stuff! There’s super soldiers, a government conspiracy, outer space shenanigans, aliens, secrets, and kissing. And the second book builds off various plot-related repercussions in the first book– thriller and romance both– while expanding on the relationship between the two leads, Zander and Felix. This third book, while continuing on the major plot points from the previous two books, ramps everything up by, like, ten. It does this great plot thing where terrible events happen that…

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    A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles

    October 31, 2014

    Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

    December 23, 2014

    The Only Option by Megan Derr

    October 25, 2016
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    Bellingham Mysteries by Nicole Kimberling

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    This is a mystery-romance series about a newspaper reporter and his artist boyfriend, and the constant shenanigans they get into while trying to solve crimes! The first book is very mystery-centric, which makes sense because the protag’s love interest is also technically a suspect. Sidenote: I super loved having a newspaper journalist as the detective, as it allows him to use his natural nosiness and writing capabilities to solve the mystery! Also, his love interest is an artist. Fun! Anyway, the first book was good, but the SECOND book was even better, despite being shorter and less mystery-y. It’s set in a winter artistic retreat. This time the mystery took…

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

    August 6, 2014

    The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton

    August 10, 2015

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

    April 1, 2014
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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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    Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling (1997)

    February 7, 2015

    Bound by Megan Derr

    August 27, 2015

    A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne

    December 24, 2014
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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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    Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling (1997)

    February 7, 2015

    Spectered Isle by K.J. Charles

    April 8, 2018

    Peripheral People by Reesa Herberth & Michelle Moore

    July 22, 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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    Clariel by Garth Nix

    November 12, 2014

    Meatworks by Jordan Castillo Price

    August 6, 2015

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

    April 1, 2014
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