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I was fortunate to get an ARC of THESE VICIOUS MASKS, by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas, in exchange for an honest review. To be honest, I ha...

One of the biggest pleasures of being part of the Sweet Sixteen debut group is getting to participate in the ARC (advanced review copy) to...

I'm not sure what it is about the shift in setting, but most of the historical fantasy books I've read with European settings are da...

Jenny Han is a genius at writing character: Shug is one of the best middle-grade books I've read, and To All the Boys I've Loved Be...

Because of travel and more I'm woefully behind on updating my reviews. As I'm thinking of doing away with reviews in any case, excep...

Jessica Martinez is a master at combining lyrical prose with tense, sometimes dark plots, and Kiss, Kill, Vanish is no exception. Valentin...

I was able to meet Becky Wallace at a book launch she held for The Storyspinner at the King's English in Salt Lake City. She was wonder...

 Kimberley Griffiths Little's newest novel, Forbidden , is an unusual, evocative historical YA novel. Set in ancient Mesopotamia, the st...

 For fans of Regency romance--especially Regency with some magic thrown in, ala Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede's Sorcery and Ceci...

 I've been putting off reading Stiefvater's Blue Lily, Lily Blue until I had time to savor it (also, as a reward for meeting some p...

There were a lot of things I enjoyed about Natalie Whipple's Fish Out of Water . (I was given an eARC in exchange for an honest review)....

 I am a sucker for historical fantasy (not a surprise, since I write this stuff), and I've wanted to read this book since I heard of it....

 I thought Charlie Holmberg's debut novel, The Paper Magician , was quite charming. I'm a sucker for historical fantasy (I adore Pat...

 After reading Shannon Hale's latest, Dangerous, I'm so impressed by her range of genres and her work ethic. She's written books...

 I admit it, I picked Brenna Yovanoff's Paper Valentine up for it's lovely cover, and the blurbs on the back induced me to read mor...

 Natalie Whipple's House of Ivy and Sorrow is a very different novel from her debut Transparent . From the opening chapter I was intrig...

 Rosamund Hodge's Cruel Beauty has been on my to-read list for sometime and I was thrilled to find it lived up to the hype. In this imag...

I loved Brennan's Demon Lexicon , and I have been waiting for some time to get my hands on a copy of this particular book. It did not d...

This book was precisely the kind of lush, vividly imagined fantasy that I enjoy, and it focused around a mythical creature--trolls--that we...

If the title of Eva Ibbotson's The Reluctant Heiress sounds as if it should be a cheap Regency paperback, well, it isn't. Not quite...