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The Book of Doors- Guess I’m obsessed with this series now

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

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In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It’s a book—an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door. What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever […]

Anti-colonial historical fantasy

Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui

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I had such high hopes for Aicha because I love angry women, mythology, and historical fiction, so this sounded like it’d be exactly my jam. Unfortunately all those expectations fell flat. I wouldn’t say this is a bad book, and there were elements I enjoyed, I just don’t know that I’d say I enjoyed the book as a whole. Aicha is about the youngest daughter of a weapons smith, who is also a rebel, and how she also fights for her people’s liberation. But inside […]

Trans Rights Readathon Books

The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith

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The Deep & Dark Blue This is a middle grade graphic novel with a lovely trans-affirming message. Hawke and Grayson are twin grandchildren of the head of a noble house. After a coup that kills the grandfather and the presumptive heir, the twins run to the Communion of Blue, a group of women spinners and weavers who help spin the world. They disguise themselves as girls—Hanna and Grayce—and take the role of initiates. While Hawke chafes under these new restrictions, Grayce begins to accept that […]

Even a Quest Couldn’t Save This from Boring

Mossflower by Brian Jacques

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This is the second in the Redwall series but is a prequel to the first book, Redwall. The wildcat overlords, Verdauga, Tsarmina, and Gingivere, are exacting a reign of terror on Mossflower and its environs. Many of the residents have fled to hideout in Mossflower woods, leaving the wildcats and their vermin horde to worry about who’s going to do all the farming as food supplies are running low. Verdauga is hatching a plan to try and capture the Woodlanders in order to enslave them […]

We’re up all night to get lucky

Three Kinds of Lucky by Kim Harrison

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I read the original novels from The Hollows series (I couldn’t bring myself to read the follow ups since she had written the perfect epilogue and I didn’t want it to no longer count) but haven’t picked anything up from Kim Harrison in a while. The Hollows as a series ended up having such extensive world building as the series progressed that I really appreciated but Rachel Morgan as a character took a while to grow on me (definitely took more books than Kate Daniels […]

Back to the orcs, rattkins, and elves!!

Brigands and Breadknives (Legends and Lattes #2) by Travis Baldree

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So this is book two in the Legends and Lattes universe. I read book 1 first (shocker!), and then book 0, and then book 2. This was definitely the correct order! We met Viv and Tandree in the first book, along with the rest of the Legends and Lattes crew. Then we traveled back in time to Viv meeting Fern. In this book, it’s about twenty years after Bookshops and Bonedust (Book 0), and Fern is travelling to Thune to open a bookshop next to […]



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