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“There is nothing nice about Southern ladies!”

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

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BINGO – LIBATIONS It’s the early 1990s, and Patricia Campbell lives in a suburb of Charleston, South Carolina with her husband, two kids, and mother-in-law. She does what she can to be a picturesque Southern lady: exceptional manners and hospitality, exquisite outfits, pristine home, and exemplary family. She is a perfect Southern peach, and she’s bored. The only outlet she has that is solely for herself is her book club filled with other women just like her. To escape their lives, they choose to read […]

I know I always complain about book series that don’t have an end BUT I WANT MORE

Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman

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Travel: because I actually really liked the majority of this book where Seraphina is just traveling from one city to another, trying to do her thing Wow, people really don’t like this book. I, on the other hand, squandered a perfectly good sleep head start to the week to stay up and finish this book and was nigh inconsolable afterwards because [WHAT IS ORMA’S MIND PEARL TRIGGER???? IS IT IN THE NEXT BOOK (Tess of the Road??? I NEED TO KNOW]. So if I address the […]

An immensely exciting magic system in a novel with resolution

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

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BINGO – OLD SERIES Mistborn: The Final Empire (also frequently known as just Mistborn) in the first in a series of novels that was originally published in 2006. Vin is an orphaned street thief who has had a tough life hopping from thieving crew to crew just trying to survive in Luthadel, the capital of the oppressive Final Empire. Vin is skaa (the lower, poor, working class) and not a part of the nobility, the ruling upper class who treat the skaa as sub-human. Ultimately, […]

Here we go again

Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford

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Bingo square: Pandemic Series: Greenglass House. This is Book #2, I read and reviewed Book #1 last October. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: Smugglers, Christmas, thieves, tabletop roleplaying games, and adoption issues handled with sensitivity. I enjoyed Greenglass House quite a bit. Why I stopped reading the series: I wasn’t sure if I needed to know more about the characters–I felt good with where they were after Book 1. I might have picked up Book 2 even if I weren’t trying […]

“The Only Currency More Powerful than Money in this World is the Violence of Man.”

Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu

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I found the Library of the Dead when searching online for books that were like The Starless Sea.  As always, I got it (for free) out of the library to do a cursory read before committing to purchasing. And while there weren’t that many similarities between Morgenstern’s book and this one, Huchu’s first foray into speculative fiction is a great success. I’d never heard of Huchu before, but I will definitely be checking out his other publications based on how much I enjoyed this read. Edinburgh has […]



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