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Hell Bent

Have you read Ninth House? Because if not–and you’re a loon if you haven’t–this review is a waste of your time. Hell Bent is the second book in Leigh Bardugo’s…

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Flirting with the Beast

In romance novels, the heroine is almost always under thirty. When older women – those over fifty – appear in romance, it’s usually as a secondary character who, if she’s…

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Spells For Forgetting

On Saoirse Island, a rain soaked isle in the Pacific Northwest, a murmuration of starlings portends death and the leaves on the trees may burst into color all at once….

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Return to Christmas

Anne Stuart’s Return to Christmas is startlingly sentimental for the author while still–for better and worst–having the hallmarks of her work. I enjoyed it but didn’t love it. It’s December…

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Ninth House

The 1800 freshman matriculated at Yale University are likely a storied bunch. Over 35,000 applied to the famed Ivie–those accepted were likely the rock stars of their high schools with…

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Girl, Forgotten

The first book I read by Karin Slaughter was Pieces of Her. Like our reviewer, I couldn’t put it down and, upon finishing it, I read EVERY SINGLE NOVEL she’s…

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Willed to Wed Him

There was a time when I read lots of category romances… almost all of which were written by the fabulous Sarah Mayberry, none of which were Harlequin Presents. But I…

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The Family Remains

Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns…

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The Last To Vanish

In the latest from Megan Miranda, The Last to Vanish, seven people have vanished in the small North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass over the past twenty odd years….

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Wolf in the Shadows

Shifter Julia Martel has been spoiled and pampered by all the alpha males around her whose urge to protect her have left her uninformed and vulnerable. Now the Great North…

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A Little Wilder

A Little Wilder is Kane Wilder story, he of the famous Wilder family. (This is the fourth full book of the series and, I suspect, given that each book is…

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Gone Girl

Ten years ago, on June 5th, Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl arrived. It wasn’t Flynn’s first book or even her second—she’d published two unsettling works both of which had sold reasonably…

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