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Reality Check Review
Read more: Reality Check ReviewSince I so enjoyed Calonita’s Secrets of My Hollywood Life, I decided to check out her stand alone novel, Reality Check. While Secrets starred Kaitlin, an actress who had been working on tv and movies since she was 5 years old, the protagonist here is Charlie Reed, a regular girl who waitresses and goes to…
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Beautiful Little Fools Review
Read more: Beautiful Little Fools ReviewWith The Great Gatsby now in public domain, Jillain Cantor duly stepped in to provide the ladies of Gatsby their own story. Set in the years leading up to, during and after Gatsby’s death, the novel follows Daisy, Jordan and Catherine and shows the pasts they hide, the secrets they keep and the disillusioned view…
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On the Come Up Reread
Read more: On the Come Up RereadI read this about three years ago I think, but I didn’t remember much of it as compared to its predecessor The Hate U Give. But to be fair, On the Come Up is a solid book, it’s just I had to read THUG about five times for three different classes so it just stuck…
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One Woman’s Junk Review
Read more: One Woman’s Junk ReviewThe first book in JB Lynn’s Psychic Consigment Mysteries allows the author to write what she does best, humor, mystery, psychic powers, and sisterhood.
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Under the Jolly Roger Review
Read more: Under the Jolly Roger ReviewThe third book in the Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer wastes no time in bringing readers back to the fold of Jacky’s wild adventures. We start with the classic, “Call me, Ismael” because lo and behold, Jacky is on the Pequod with Captain Ahab and Ismael!
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Twisted Tales: A Whole New World Review
Read more: Twisted Tales: A Whole New World ReviewThis book was an excellent and dark take on the scenario of “What if Aladdin never found the lamp?” That turns out to be a bit of misnomer because Aladdin does find the lamp. Jafar just happens to snatch it out of Aladdin’s hands and leaves him to be buried under mounds of sands. In…
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Twisted Tales: Once Upon a Dream Review
Read more: Twisted Tales: Once Upon a Dream ReviewAh yes, this twist on Sleeping Beauty was the first Twisted Tales book in the series, and an excellent intro to any newcomer I believe. The book asks “What if Sleeping Beauty hadn’t woken up?”. In fact it pulls Prince Phillip to sleep too once he kisses the princess. For our story starts not as…
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Archie Vol. 1 Review
Read more: Archie Vol. 1 ReviewI won’t go to into my feelings on Riverdale (that’s a whole different five page essay I’ve written) but my basic feelings is that after the first season it misuses the characters and in their zeal to show edgy things like sex, drugs and death, they believe it will cover up their flaws in plot,…
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Dionysos: The New God Review
Read more: Dionysos: The New God ReviewHey, it’s my birthday and I got the final book of George O’Connor’s The Olympians series as a gift. And is Dionysos a fitting conclusion to this 10+ year series? You bet it is. For those who don’t know, The Olympians is a comic series tackling each god in the Greek pantheon, depicting their fantastical…
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Curse of the Blue Tattoo Review
Read more: Curse of the Blue Tattoo ReviewStarting right after Jacky is taken off the deck of the Dolphin, she is sent to Boston’s Peabody Lawson’s School for Young Ladies. The proper place for a female, but not the proper place for Jacky. Even though she’s determined to become a proper lady for her dear midshipman, Jaimy, our favorite sailor is meant…
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