Summary: Copernicus Science camp looks harmless enough on the surface, at least no one will tell you otherwise, least of all Max McKenzie, who doesn't speak at all. He can't even defend himself when he's implicated in a high stakes chemical theft from the camp lab. Or can he? His brother Emile is desperate to … Continue reading Book Review: The Spec Set by Taya Okerlund #20BooksofSummer
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Book Review: The Blood Prince by Josie Jaffrey #20BooksofSummer
Summary: The price of freedom is always paid in blood. The sovereigns of the Silver have awakened, but the Queen is a fractured shell of the woman Cam remembers. He hopes to put her back together by finding her son, the missing prince. At least, that’s what he tells his friends when he leaves for … Continue reading Book Review: The Blood Prince by Josie Jaffrey #20BooksofSummer
Book Review: Touch by Claire North #20BooksofSummer
Summary: Kepler had never meant to die this way — viciously beaten to death by a stinking vagrant in a dark back alley. But when reaching out to the murderer for salvation in those last dying moments, a sudden switch takes place. Now Kepler is looking out through the eyes of the killer himself, staring … Continue reading Book Review: Touch by Claire North #20BooksofSummer
Book Review: Asha & the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan #20booksofsummer
Summary: Asha lives on the family farm with her mother in rural India. Her father is away working in the city, and when the money he sends stops suddenly, a wicked aunt arrives. She’s determined to seize the property – and the treasure rumoured to be hidden on the land. Guided by a majestic … Continue reading Book Review: Asha & the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan #20booksofsummer
Book Review: The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang #20booksofsummer
Summary: In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run: haunted by the atrocity she committed to end the war, addicted to opium, and hiding from the murderous commands of her vengeful god, the fiery Phoenix. Her only reason for living is to get revenge on the … Continue reading Book Review: The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang #20booksofsummer
Book Review: The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross
Summary: I am neither monster nor man—yet I am both. I am the Beast. The day I was cursed to this wretched existence was the day I was saved—although it did not feel so at the time. My redemption sprung from contemptible roots; I am not proud of what I did the day her father … Continue reading Book Review: The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross
Book Review: Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
Summary: All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and … Continue reading Book Review: Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
Book Review: Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
Summary: Margerit Sovitre did not expect to inherit the Baron Saveze’s fortunes—and even less his bodyguard. The formidable Barbara, of unknown parentage and tied to the barony for secretive reasons, is a feared duelist, capable of defending her charges with efficient, deadly force. Equally perplexing is that while she is now a highly eligible heiress, … Continue reading Book Review: Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
Audiobook Review: Beautiful by Juliet Marillier #20booksofsummer
I'm going to do something a little different with this review and put my summary and thoughts together since, being an audible original, this is a different kind of a book in a way. From what I gather, Beautiful is either an off-shoot of a previous story or an expansion of a previous story … Continue reading Audiobook Review: Beautiful by Juliet Marillier #20booksofsummer
Book Review: The Book of Flora by Meg Elison #20booksofsummer
Summary: In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an … Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Flora by Meg Elison #20booksofsummer
Way Too Fantasy 