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REVIEW: Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews

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Spoiler Alert: Hidden Legacy series spoilers follow. I’m avoiding spoilers for Emerald Blaze but it’s not possible to talk about this book without mentioning spoilers from previous books in the series. CW: gore, violence, death, reference to sexual assault and human trafficking Dear Ilona Andrews, Sapphire Flames made my best ... more >

JOINT REVIEW: Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

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Janine: Since Sirius and I both enjoyed Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett’s first novel in his Founders Trilogy, we decided to review the sequel, Shorefall, together. Here is the novel’s blurb: The upstart firm Foundryside is struggling to make it. Orso Igancio and his star employee, former thief Sancia Grado, are ... more >

REVIEW: Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri

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Dear Tasha Suri, I greatly enjoyed your 2018 debut romantic fantasy novel, Empire of Sand, so I was eager for Realm of Ash, your recently-published follow up. The two books are interconnected despite being centered on different characters, so I recommend reading Empire of Sand first. Besides filling out the ... more >

REVIEW: False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

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PLEASE NOTE: If you haven’t read Lies Sleeping, the previous novel in the Rivers of London series, and wish to avoid spoilers for that book, skip this review. Big events took place in Lies Sleeping that are mentioned in this review of False Value. Dear Ben Aaronovitch, I’ve enjoyed all ... more >

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 >

REVIEW: Blood Heir (Blood Heir Trilogy #1) by Amelie Wen Zhao

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This hot debut is the first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the con man she must trust to clear her name for her father’s murder. In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. Their varied gifts to control the world around them ... more >

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