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When the zombie outbreak happened, I didn’t expect zombie gnomes

Hooves of Death, Volume 1 by Sam Bragg

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While I liked this book, I’m not really sure how to write about it. Hooves of Death, Volume 1 by Sam Bragg has many of the familiar themes, settings and story arcs you find in young adult literature, but it is also new and fresh. There are parts I did not like, parts I loved and one or two parts where I went “huh?” There are ups and downs. We follow one human and a few unicorns that escaped the destruction of their compound (don’t […]

Dragons and Mayhem and Magic, Oh My

A Mythical Case of Arson by Melissa Erin Jackson

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This was a cute, cozy fantasy/mystery. Deandra Hendricks decides to take a break from her long work hours, and what seems to be a lacking social life, to visit family in Axia. The book is set on earth as we know it, except that there are a number of magical communities called hubs in this world where magical people and mythical creatures can live, and Axia is the small hub that Deandra’s magical grandparents have retired to. Deandra has no magical abilities herself and has […]

That’ll teach her to steal the moon

Fae and the Moon by Franco Aureliani, Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun

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What is the point of reading? For fun? To learn? Or to pass the time? Maybe all those layers and more. And Fae and the Moon has a few layers too. Granted, it might not be a seven-layer cake, but it has two or three.  Franco Aureliani, Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun came together to make a cute story about the idea of female empowerment, friendship, family and self understanding. The illustrations are simple, but cute and even the scary parts are lovely in the […]



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