Category: Book Reviews and Releases
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2023 Reading Year in Review
Jodi L. Milner’s 2023 list of favorite reads, including her best read of the year.
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Book Review: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
I was craving a good steampunk read not too long ago and this one came recommended by an entire hoard of fellow authors. I’d read Westerfeld’s other books and enjoyed them, so this was an excellent choice. The Story This is a story of two very different children on very different sides of an alternate…
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Book Review: The Giver of Stars, by Jojo Moyes
The Giver of Stars is yet another book recommended to me by my fabulous fantasy fans on Facebook. You can totally join and hang out there with us, we’re pretty cool. It goes to show how important book recommendations are to authors. Psst … if you’ve read my books and liked them, please recommend them!…
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Book Review: The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The other week I asked my amazing Facebook groupies what was the last book that made them cry – possibly because I just read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and it’s kind of tragic. One of my groupies shared that The House on the Cerulean Sea made them cry in a good way, so…
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Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
After about a million (no, not really. I wish!) of you told me that I had to read this book, I finally snatched it up last week and consumed it whole. I might have mentioned before how much I like books that excel at beautiful language, where the images and ideas are presented in beautiful…
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Book Review: Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
Every year I try to read at least one book that’s considered a literary masterpiece. Anything that ended up as an Oprah’s Book Club pick as well as a author that won a Nobel Prize should have been a magical choice. It’s true, there are lots of fascinating things going on in this book, but…
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TV Review: The Dragon Prince, Season 2
Today, we move boldly into season 2 of The Dragon Prince and continue the story. If you missed the review for season 1, it can be found here. My expectations for season 2 were higher than I’d normally give to most shows. Season 1 nailed all of the critical elements to create a perfect opening…
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TV Review: Dragon Prince, Season 1
Looking back, I did something a little weird. I reviewed season 3 of Dragon Prince all by itself instead of posting the different seasons in order. Seeing as we might be getting close to the release of season 4, which is slated for the end of eternity, erm, in 2021, it’s a great time to…
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Book Review: Folded Notes From High School by Matt Boren
I picked up this quick read off of a recommendation and for the life of me I can’t remember exactly where … I’m thinking it was a writing group and we might have been talking about character voices. No, this isn’t a fantasy book. It’s an epistolary novel, meaning that the entirety of the prose…
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Book Review: The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill
When it comes to book recommendations, I always take them with a grain of salt. What might be magical and wonderful for one, might be lame and boring for another. So, when someone recommended The Girl Who Drank The Moon, I was hesitatingly hopeful. And, it was wonderful. Sweet, yet profound. Childlike, yet complex. After…
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