Category: Full Reviews
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Infinite Country Deserves Infinite Praise
“Emigration was a peeling away of the skin. An undoing. You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it’s ugly and distorted; you’ve become a scorned, unwanted creature.” Infinite Country – Patricia Engel My Rating In Summary of Infinite Country In Infinite…
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The House in the Cerulean Sea Won’t Make You Feel Blue, but Rainbow!
“Regardless of what else he is, he is still a child, as they all are. And don’t all children deserve to be protected? To be loved and nurtured so that they may grow and shape the world to make it a better place?” The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune My Rating In…
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There is An Unwanted Guest… And You Are Also Invited
“It’s now that he notices the wind – how wild and loud it is. From inside the hotel it sounds like a constant, dull roar with the occasional shriek, something far away, but out here it’s alive, it’s a monster, and it’s much closer.” An Unwanted Guest – Shari Lapena My Rating In Summary of…
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The Removed: Heartwrenching Message, but Lacking Execution
“An elder had once taught me not to be afraid of death because there is no death – there is only a change of worlds.” The Removed – Brandon Hobson My Rating In Summary of The Removed The Removed follows members of a modern Cherokee family through the week leading up to the fifteenth anniversary…
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The Family Upstairs – They Could Be Deadly… or Confusing
“‘In a nutshell? Strange people move in with wealthy family. Strange things happen and everyone dies, apart from some teenage children who are never heard of again. And, of course, the baby. Serenity.’” The Family Upstairs – Lisa Jewell My Rating In Summary of The Family Upstairs Libby Jones makes an important discovery about her…
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Gilmore Girl’s Witty Woman, Lauren Graham, Reads and Breathes Her Life
“But life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine.” Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) – Lauren Graham My Rating In Summary…
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The Glamourous and the Gory – Mexican Gothic is a Gem
“‘Noemí, just because there are no ghosts it doesn’t mean you can’t be haunted. Nor that you shouldn’t fear the haunting. You are too fearless.’” Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia My Rating In Summary of Mexican Gothic In this spine-chilling Gothic novel, the reader is immediately immersed into Noemí’s glamorous, 1950’s life in urban Mexico.…
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Graced by The Grace Year: A Must Read
“‘In the county, there’s nothing more dangerous than a woman who speaks her mind… We’re dangerous creatures. Full of devil charms.‘” The Grace Year – Kim Liggett My Rating In Summary of The Grace Year Kim Liggett’s coming-of-age novel imagines a society that condemns their young women to complete isolation in the wilderness for a…
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People Like Her, but Unfortunately Not Everybody
“… that was when I knew. When I knew that I had been lying to myself… That I had not forgiven you, could never forgive you. That was when I knew what I was going to do. All I had to work out was how and where and when.” People Like Her – Ellery Lloyd…
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