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A late-night romance adventure in Vegas

Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai

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I was lucky to read an ARC of Alisha Rai’s Partners in Crime. My friend Sarah also demanded I read it. She wanted someone to gush about it with before the release. After I read Emmalita’s rave review, I simply had to read it ASAP. It was a tough ask because I have a TBR mountain of books in my house. I did manage to read it before hosting the author’s LA launch event at The Ripped Bodice. We meet the beautiful Mira as she […]

What if computers were actually kind of magic and programmers only half understood binary?

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

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In Foundryside, what starts out as a heist caper gone horribly wrong becomes a heist caper tale to save the world in which a band on unlikely companions must put aside  differences to stop someone from achieving immortality in a destructive way. Sancia is the thief and the main perspective for much of the story, but she’s pretty one note; she’s had to survive a lot and her past is traumatic, although when she finally faces some of it, the memories do sort of help […]

Fun space caper

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Artemis is the second published novel of Andy Weir, of The Martian fame.  The book is titled after the city Artemis, the only city on the Moon in the near future.  With about 2,000 residents Artemis is tiny and mostly dependent on its tourism industry.  People save up for trips to the Moon to be able to experience lunar gravity and see the historic site of the Apollo 11 landing.  Artemis is brought to life by it’s narrator,  Jasmine (Jazz) Bashara, Saudi born but raised on the Moon […]

Thieves in Love

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Fate’s Edge is the third book of The Edge series by Ilona Andrews. Kaldar Mar, cousin to Cerise from the previous book, is recruited by Lady Virai to retrieve a magical artifact stolen impossibly stolen from a literal Fort Knox type pyramid. If not retrieved, The Hand (bad guys) would have a devastating tool to wreak havoc in the Weird, Broken and Edge. Kaldar is a con man who loves a dangerous and challenging mission. That is his power – if you bet him to do […]



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