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Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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I’m a librarian, and I feel like I’m living in resistance to a patriarchal dystopia, so when I came across UPRIGHT WOMEN WANTED, a book that touts itself as a story of librarians working in resistance to a patriarchal dystopia but IN AN OLD WEST REVIVAL (derogatory), I decided it was both close enough and far away enough to merit a read. Esther is the daughter of a powerful political man, and has been raised to be a proper daughter of one: she’s betrothed to […]

Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey

Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. DID NOT FINISH 12 PERCENT. This was too slow. I don’t even know what to say. The only Sarah Gailey book I have liked and managed to finish was Just Like Home. And that was slow as anything too. I have tried multiple times since last year to finish The Echo Wife and now this was just too much too. I just wish that the plot had moved a lot faster […]

Hippos of the Deep South

American Hippo by Sarah Gailey

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In a world where the American Hippo bill passed (look it up, it was real!) and the vast Mississippi became the home of deadly feral hippo, Winslow Houndstooth and a crew of rogues, murderers, and con artists have been contracted to take it back. This book consists of the novellas River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow and two additional short stories, which all take place in this alternate United States and follow Winslow and his motley crew of hippo riders. Firstly, I love hippos, I love the idea of […]

Death & Intrigue at a Wizarding School

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

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Ivy Gamble is a private detective who is also kind of a mess. She drinks too much, she has trouble forming lasting relationships, and she is tired of following cheating husbands and uncovering insurance fraud; Ivy wants to prove herself as a real investigator. So when the headmaster of the Osthorne School for Young Mages appears in her office and wants to hire her to investigate a mysterious death at the school, Ivy jumps at the chance. But Osthorne isn’t just a magic school, it’s […]

My Kind of Western

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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This novella has been sitting on my kindle forever and I don’t know why it took me this long to read it but I’m so glad I finally did! I think I’ve talked before about my struggles with short fiction, I always want more. This one wasn’t any different. I don’t know if reading any of Gailey’s other novellas would help clear up some of the background on this story. It’s set in a dystopian America torn apart by war with most people reduced to […]

“Some things, Vera knew, were made to die.”

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

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If you enjoy seasonal reading, I’d put this on the list for October – it has nice spooky bones and a strong creepy vibe (as you can pretty plainly tell from the cover art). Whenever you’re ready, the Crowder House will be waiting for you. Vera Crowder’s dad built the home that she grew up in – the home that she would leave at 16, and the home where she would return to witness the death of her mother.  The Crowder’s are a complicated family, […]



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