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YA Protagonists and Relatability
After reading the Black Widow duology, I started wondering. When writing tie in or spin offs or side adventure books involving popular characters like Marvel heroes or whatever, are the original young adult characters really necessary? I wrote in the Black Widow review that I had been expecting more insight to Natasha’s past and her…
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Lovely War Review
Set in the backdrop of WWI, two loves stories intertwine as the couples face trauma, and bigotry with the help of the gods.
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Stephanie Plum #1-5 Reread
So I decided to reread the Stephanie Plum books since I think I gotten into a funk where I just skim and skip to the funny parts I remembered. So this time I reread it and I paid attention.
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Disney Descendants: School of Secrets Review
Unlike my post on the Isle of the Lost, this one will be an actual review of the series overall. Unlike the Isle of the Lost series, this has some leeway in escaping continuity issues. They are not to set up movie plots or examine the main characters. This focuses on side characters that appear…
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Isle of the Lost and the Difficulties of Continuity
Okay, I’ll admit when I first heard of the Descendants movies involving Kristen Chenworth way back in 2014, I had made fun of it. Especially the unimagenative names given to the children of the characters. I mean Evie – Evil Queen, Jay- Jafar, it just seemed so lazy. But then I read the first Isle…
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#SoMaternal and Mothering Books
People Like Her by Ellery Lord This book is a semi-mystery focusing on mommy blogger and icon, Emmy Jackson, her husband, Dan and the mysterious stalker that seeks revenge on for having an ideal life that feeds the insecurities of others. It’s a book about the darker undercurrent of internet fame and the obsessions behind…
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A Frozen Heart Review
As we all know when a popular movie comes out, we must have the movie in novelization form. How else will we learn what the characters are thinking? Even though it’s basically a rehash of what we already saw onscreen. Well, Elizabeth Rudnick’s book takes a creative angle in simply focusing on the point of…
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4 books-Mini Reviews
I was going to put all 4 titles but it looked clunky. Now here’s 4 books I read over April that were good but I didn’t feel like they warranted one big review each. Dangerous Play by Emma Kress Now this teaches me not to judge a book by its cover or title or summary.…
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Catching Air Review
Two couples jump on the chance to take over a cozy BnB in Vermont. The husbands, Peter and Rand Danner are brothers and are gung-ho about making it work. Peter’s wife, Kira sees it as a wonderful change after working in corporate laeyer in Florida. Alyssa just hopes it will be a quiet place for…
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