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I really liked the heart of this book. I loved April and her unapologetic geekiness, and I liked what Dade has to say about body positivity, and that she wrote a male protagonist that walks the talk. What I wasn’t expecting was just how detailed into the fanfiction subculture this was going to go. It’s one of the few times I’ve started a book and
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I generally enjoy Mary Burton’s books and this was no exception. Someone is killing women with a tire iron, and some of the victims are tied to lawyer Rachel Wainwright’s work to prove a jailed man innocent. Deke Morgan is the detective assigned to the case, and it was his father who put the man in jail 30 years before. Deke and Rachel start out
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No one writes a historical saga quite like Ken Follett. Is it entirely historically accurate? Probably not. Is it fine literature? No. Did it keep me entertained for 30 hours? It did! For the most part. There was a fair amount of political stuff at the end that I found myself tuning out on, but I’m always interested in the stories of the people. I
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This is the epic tale of a world trying to stop the rise of the Wyrms (think: fire-breathing dragons) after 1000 years of banishment below the seas. It is told through the eyes of several characters — a lord doomed by a childhood friendship, a court outsider with a secret, a dragon-rider with a rebellious streak, a banished alchemist determined to return home — and
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