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Emerald Green is the junk food of books and I must learn to stop eating potato chips when I want a meal

Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier

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I never read any of the Twilight series, but I think my feelings about the Ruby Red/Precious Gemstones trilogy are pretty similar to many of friends’ feelings about Twilight. The books aren’t good but I can’t stop reading them. I’m glad the series is over so I can’t keep shame-reading them.  Emerald Green is the final chapter of the Ruby Red/Precious Gemstones trilogy. Accidental time-traveler Gwyneth Shepherd and her on-again off-again boyfriend/time traveler companion Gideon de Villiers have been tasked by the Guardians and the […]

Little demons everywhere

Unsung Heroine by Sarah Kuhn

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Official book description: Lucy Valdez is many things: fight trainer/bodyguard to superheroines, fabulous vintage fashion plate, undisputed karaoke queen at local joint, The Gutter. She is also one of the toughest fighters in all of San Francisco without superpowers. So why can’t she seem to confess her feelings to her longtime crush Rose Rorick, head of the San Francisco Police Department’s Demon Unit? Well…. actually, she knows why. She’s afraid Rose won’t like the real Lucy, the Lucy underneath all the fabulous bravado. (She is […]

Semi-Historical Fiction With a Psychic Investigator

The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley

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This was kind of an impulse buy – I just wandered around Barnes and Noble until a book cover spoke to me, and after reading the back blurb I bought it, and boy am I glad I did. The story goes back and forth in time (hence the “semi-historical fiction”) in my title. In the present, the story is narrated by Nicola Marter, a young woman of Russian descent who lives in England and works for the owner of an art gallery. She has some […]

The fluff that almost, almost got interesting

Mooncakes by Wendy Xu, Suzanne Walker

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Mooncakes is a fluffy light read, but it could have been so much more. Like a lot of the graphic novels I tend to pick up, this one features a fairly YA story about 2 queer characters probably in their late teens who have something supernatural about them, and they must face some sort of supernatural problem while dealing with their mutual attraction to each other. Nova is a witch in training, and Tam is her werewolf childhood friend/possibly something more who moved away but […]

I probably wouldn’t have watched the movie, so I don’t know why I read the book.

Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern

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Will they or won’t they?  This is the basic premise of Love, Rosie, previously published for some reason as Where Rainbows End.  It’s written entirely in the form of emails, texts, instant messaging, and letters, and tells the story of best friends Rosie and Alex who just keep missing out on finding love with each other. After growing up together and planning on being besties for ever, something happens at the end of high school that gets in the way of their best intentions.  They […]



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