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REVIEW: The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence, #2) by K.D. Edwards

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The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck. Rune Saint John, ... more >

Illustrated cover with a dark-skinned bride on top of a wedding cake pushing a dark-haired white man off the top of the cake. A lighter-haired white man is on the top of the cake with the bride. He's shrugging.

REVIEW: The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

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Dear Mia Sosa, Lina Santos gets stood up on her wedding day by Andrew Hartley. The news of his defection is delivered by the erstwhile best man, his younger brother, Max. According to a text he received from Andrew, something a drunken Max said the night before resonated with him ... more >

Red-headed white woman in an embrace with a bearded Black man in a suit. He has his hand at the back of her neck with his thumb on her cheek and they're laughing.

REVIEW: Headliners by Lucy Parker

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NOTE TO READERS: The following review necessarily contains spoilers for the previous book in the London Celebrities series, The Austen Playbook. If you haven’t read it yet, perhaps best to look away now. Dear Lucy Parker, I admit I’m not generally a fan of the enemies-to-lovers trope. It’s not that ... more >

REVIEW: Wine for Normal People by Elizabeth Schneider

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From the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Wine for Normal People, described by Imbibe magazine as “a wine podcast for the people.” Wine for Normal People is an unpretentious guide to everything you ever wanted to know about wine. Learn a not-snobby wine vocabulary, how and where to ... more >

Sirius’ Best 0f 2019

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I thought I had a decent reading year, I don’t usually have a lot of A books and this year was no exception, but I did have several B+ and for me grade between B+ and A may often end up being relative anyway. 1. “The House of the Sundering ... more >

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Janine’s Best of 2019

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I was tempted to make a list of my favorites among the 2019-published books I read this year. In the end I decided to focus on my favorite 2019 reads (first time reads; I didn’t include books I had read / reviewed in prior years) without regard to their year ... more >

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