Cory's ReviewBit of a rant here.Look, Naomi Novik is one of my favorite authors. I've never given one of her books less than 5 stars, and I had to do some serous MATH to land on this rating. If I'd gone on instinct alone, it probably would have been a 2, but after talking it over for TWO ...
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Review: Love in the Time of Serial Killers
Two of my biggest hobbies are reading romance and listening to True Crime podcasts. When this popped up on my BookTok FYP with someone saying it was the perfect mashup of the two, I ran to buy it.Unfortunately, it didn't work out for me as much as I thought it would.First off, the things I ...
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Review: The Last Graduate
5 star· Angela· Book Reviews· Fantasy· Paranormal· Romance· Young Adult
I could not wait for this book once I finished A Deadly Education, which was one of the most compelling reads I'd read in a long time. I absolutely adored El, and her developing relationships. The world was interesting, and kept me intrigued, but it was really the characters that did everything for ...
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Review: The Gilded Ones
I grabbed this book because of the cover and that description. It's absolutely beautiful, and the story sounded amazing. Outcasts by blood. Warriors by choice.The Gilded Ones is, at its heart, an examination of the patriarchy and how women fit into that structure - and how they don't. I related ...
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Review: Hook, Line, and Sinker
Book BlurbKing crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he's a guaranteed good time--in bed and out--and that's exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She's immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his... ...
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Review: A Deadly Education
I just re-read this book in preparation for the book 2, The Last Graduate, that was recently released. I cannot wait until it gets here. I loved this book. I loved the audiobook. I’ve read it at least three times now.I'm going to start off by addressing some things that have come up in regards ...
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Review: The Dead Romantics
Book BlurbFlorence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It’s as good as dead.When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won’t give her an extension on her ...
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Review: The Hacienda
2022· 5 star· Book Reviews· Cory· Gothic· Horror· Mystery· Paranormal· Romance· Thriller
Book BlurbMexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...In the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father is ...
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Review: Vespertine
Book BlurbThe dead of Loraille do not rest.Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as spirits with a ravenous hunger for the living. She would rather deal with the dead than the living, ...
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