I absolutely adored the Sweet Evil trilogy, so I tried this one too--curious to know how Higgins would pull off a romance between a human girl and a leprechaun! But it gets better: the human girl and the leprechaun are betrothed from childhood, even though they've never met before. How in the world ...
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Tell Me Three Things
This was a straight up YA novel, no fantasy or sci fi or anything else, but it hooked me right away with the concept of a secret penpal writing to the new girl in school. Jessie moved to her new LA private high school after her mother died and her father remarried. The school is cutthroat, the girls ...
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Review of Hidden Deep
I'm not generally a romance reader unless it's historical, because modern day stories that are primarily romances tend to be cheesy in my opinion. I have a hard time with all the ogling of rippling muscles and bodies aflame and what-not... just makes me roll my eyes. This story had an awful lot of ...
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Of Sea and Stone
I read this one mostly on the beach in Bermuda, which turned out to be just perfect! Since the story references (and later takes place in) the lost city of Itlantis (a different spelling of Atlantis, apparently) and one of the theories of the Bermuda Triangle involves the idea that the lost city ...
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Review of Ice Massacre
A fun concept, and one I don't think I've seen done before... normally mermaid stories follow the mermaid as the main character, but this one instead followed Meela, a 17-year old human girl raised to hate mermaids and regard them as "demons" to be killed. The prologue is great--definitely hooks you ...
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Wonder Woman: Warbringer
Let me preface this with a very unpopular opinion, and just get it out of the way right now: I absolutely *hated* the most recent Wonder Woman film (my review of it is here, if you care). So I didn’t have super high expectations for this book. But I see it advertised on end caps every time I go to ...
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Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses
I had tried Sarah J Maas’s Throne of Glass series a few years ago and couldn’t get into it. But this series is everywhere, and everyone gushes about how great it is, so finally I decided to give it a try. Let me preface the rest of what I have to say with the fact that I stop reading books that ...
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Review of Renegades
I’ve been a big Marissa Meyer fan ever since The Lunar Chronicles (which I only read recently—I was late to the party on that). Although I didn’t enjoy Heartless quite as much as The Lunar Chronicles, I chalk that up mostly to the fact that it was the origin story of a villain (the Queen of Hearts ...
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