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I thought this was a solid piece of suspense from Karen Rose. It involves some characters from her past books, but it’s not necessary to have read them — you get all the background you need. This story could have easily gone sideways — the plot involves a virtual world. I normally expect the virtual/technical parts of a plot like this to be really unbelievable,
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I thought this was a decent urban fantasy one-off that wasn’t limited to one “species”. Graf is a vampire who is driving through America’s heartland when he stumbles into a town that he can’t quite get out of. And to make things more interesting, there’s a monster wandering around, eating people. This monster seems to be especially attracted to one woman, Jessa, who has been
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The Guineveres is the story of 4 girls named Guinevere who befriend each other after each being left at a convent to live until they are 18. It is wartime (though we don’t know which war, exactly), and after a failed escape attempt, they are assigned to taking care of young, comatose soldiers in the convent’s sick ward. For the girls, these soldiers aren’t a
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I’ve wrestled with my feelings about this book, and I think I’ve fallen solidly on the side of “meh”. I struggled to get through it, but kept going because I was interested in the prison drama of it all. I can appreciate the literary quality of the writing, but the story structure left something to be desired. Sometimes things are linear, sometimes we’re jumping around
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