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January 10, 2023

REVIEW: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

JayneB Reviews / B- Reviews / Book ReviewsDark Fantasy / Fairy / Fairyland / Fantasy / First-Person / Historical / rivalry / rivals to lovers / scholar / socially awkward2 Comments

Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make ... more >

January 6, 2023

Review: The Inheritance Games (books 1-3) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

SiriusB Reviews Category / Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviewsgames / mind puzzles / thriller/suspence / Young-Adult2 Comments

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why — or even who Tobias Hawthorne ... more >

January 5, 2023

REVIEW: Illuminations by T. Kingfisher

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsDark Fantasy / family relationships / Fantasy / female friendship / Magic / middle grade / painter8 Comments

Rosa Mandolini knows in her heart that her family are the greatest painters of magical illuminations in the city. But the eccentric Studio Mandolini has fallen on hard times and the future is no longer certain. While trying to help her family, Rosa discovers a strange magical box protected by ... more >

January 4, 2023

REVIEW: The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / Catholic / Georgian / Historical / inspirational / inspirational romance / Jacobite rebellion / Jacobites / Protestant / ScotlandNo Comments

In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley’s father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Lady Blythe awaits who will ultimately be crowned king. But in a house ... more >

January 3, 2023

REVIEW: They’re Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso

JennieB- Reviews / Book Reviewsboarding school / mystery / secret society / thriller / Young-Adult7 Comments

Dear Ms. Ichaso: I’m not sure if I knew this book was tagged as Young Adult Fiction when I requested it. I just knew it was suspense set at a posh boarding school. It does feel YA in some way I can’t quite describe. Or at least not without seeming ... more >

January 2, 2023

What Janine is Reading: 2022 YA Fantasies

JanineB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews / D Reviews / DNF Reviews#ownvoices / Arctic / death / families / journey / moral ambiguity / poison / Reading lists / shipboard / spy / survival / Time-Travel / YA fantasy / Young-Adult5 Comments

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len This YA fantasy novel, Vanessa Len’s debut, was recommended highly by two people I trust, so I stuck with it even though it had a slow and seemingly pedestrian beginning. When Joan, a British East Asian girl, is little, her grandmother tells her that ... more >

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