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No vampire is ever innocent in Lavie Tidhar’s “Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law”, a Tor.com Original short story The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for any vampire who breaks the laws designed to safeguard their kind’s survival. This new case in particular puts ... more >
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Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The Goblin Emperor meets Howl’s Moving Castle in a pre-colonial Vietnamese-esque world Fire burns bright and has a long memory…. Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of ... more >
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Could Mr Right-Now actually be Mr Right? Lexie Whittle thought she had life all sewn up, with a gorgeous husband, a beautiful home and a delightful teenage stepson. Until husband Daryl left to work overseas…and everything changed. A year later, Daryl and Lexie’s marriage is over. Lexie is fighting to ... more >
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The first book on my list is the best book with gay romance in it that I have read this year. The rest of the list I enjoyed very much, but the placement on the list does not show any differences in my enjoyment. The Hanged Man (The Tarrot Sequence ... more >
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Dear Ms. Kennedy: This is the fourth and final book in the Briar U series; this series itself is an offshoot of the Off-Campus series set at the same fictional Ivy-ish university. This one pairs hockey-player and manwhore Conor Edwards with Taylor Marsh, an insecure sorority sister with lifelong body-image ... more >
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In this evocative and heartwarming novel for readers who loved The Thing About Jellyfish, the author of I Can Make This Promise tells the story of a Native American girl struggling to find her joy again. It’s been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg ... more >