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Book Review: The Emilie Adventures by Martha Wells
The Emilie Adventures are a steampunk-with-magic duology of young adult novels. Our Protagonist is Emilie, a young girl running away from an extremely toxic home situation. (Her uncle is convince that since her mother became an actress, that Emilie will be no better than she should be. He is kind of horrible.) Her plans to…
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Book Review: Babs & Aggie: The Good, the Bad, and the Vegan by Hazel Hitchins
So, I think writing cozy fantasy–fantasy with a low stakes plot focused on domesticity and interpersonal relationships up to and including romance–is probably pretty hard to write. I say this because a lot of the cozy fantasy I’ve seen is cute and kind of fluffy. The worldbuilding is light, airy and sugary. This is not…
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Book Review: Hyo the Hellmaker by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Hyo the Hellmaker is the book of a type that feels like it should belong in a subgenre appended by “punk.” Not enough gears for steam punk. Not enough motor oil for diesel punk. Maybe a strong note of solar punk. (One thing I’m definitely sure of is the post-apocalyptic feel.) I may just have…
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Book Review: Installment Mortality by Seanan McGuire
I had fallen off from reading Seanan McGuire’s InCryptid series due to some grimdark happenings! (I really need to get back to them, to find out what happened.) But I decided to read and review Installment Immortality because Mary Dunlavy, ex-crossroads ghost and baby sitter to the Price-Healy family of cryptid researchers/conservationists is one of…
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Book Review: A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames
The blurb of A Harvest of Hearts on Net Galley compares this dark fairy tale-style novel to Diana Wynne Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle. And I can definitely see it. We’ve got the weird house, we got the sensible/exasperated heroine with powers she isn’t aware of. We have the talking magical creature. The style however is…
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