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Book Review: Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

01 Friday Jul 2016

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First of all, I would like to thank Simon & Schuster for my ARC. And of course, I also want to thank NetGalley for their amazing services.

This was my first Chris Cleave novel, and I am glad to have discovered him at this point. I think Everyone Brave Is Forgiven is his most suitable novel for me. I love everything set during WWII as it was a period in European history (global as well, but mainly European) that cannot be matched in its large scale misery, destruction, and passion.  Continue reading →

Book Review: You Know Me Well

26 Sunday Jun 2016

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A special thanks to St Martin’s Press for the advance reader’s copy of this book.

You Know me Well is a book written by Nina LaCour and David Levithan, telling the stories of Kate and Mark in alternating chapters. The two go to the same school, but never hung out together until they meet at San Francisco Pride Week just before the school year ends. Continue reading →

Book Review: The Jilted Bride – A Footnote to Cinderella’s Happiness

23 Thursday Jun 2016

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I want to thank the author, Kristen Reed, for a review copy.

The Jilted Bride: A Footnote to Cinderella’s Happiness is romance/fairytale novella with a twist. While not a strict retelling of Cinderella’s tale, it looks at the larger picture of that story.

Demetria, the daughter of Lord Aurelian, the Duke of Isidor, is preparing to marry Caspar, the Prince of Aspasia. At a ball before the wedding, her expectations are betrayed as Caspar spends the entire evening dancing with a woman she hadn’t seen before. At midnight, the woman leaves the ball, with Caspar running after her. Demetria lets this slide, but on the day of the wedding, after Caspar apologized for his behavior, that same woman, who Demetria finds out is a servant named Cinderella, shows up and Caspar leaves with her.  Continue reading →

Book Review: Winter Smith – London’s Burning

16 Saturday Apr 2016

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Firstly, I want to thank J.S. Strange for a review copy.

Winter Smith: London Burning is the first novel of the Winter Smith series. The main character, Winter, a teenage girl with a mysterious troubled past, lives in London with her parents, who, after becoming rich, enjoy the socialite lifestyle, throwing lavish parties. Winter is forced to make appearances which result in her gaining notoriety in the press. Continue reading →

Book Review: The Crow Girl

28 Monday Mar 2016

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First of all, I would like to thank Harvill Secker and Vintage for my ARC. And of course, I also want to thank NetGalley for their amazing services.

A few words about the author(s): Erik Axl Sund is the pen name of Swedish author duo Jerker Eriksson, a prison librarian and band manager, and Håkan Axlander Sundquist, sound engineer and musician in said band. The Crow Girl has been translated into several languages and has been a major success in Europe, and it’s finally available in English. The English edition contains all three books of Sund’s Victoria Bergman Trilogy, and takes its title from the first book.  Continue reading →