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Hooray for a return to the Hollows and Rachel Morgan! This series has long been my favorite urban fantasy series, and I was excited to see that Harrison decided to continue it after a 6 year hiatus. Here, Rachel’s life has become both simpler (because she no longer has to hide that she’s a demon) and more complicated (because she is a witch/demon in a
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This was a solid contemporary romance where the bisexual son of the first woman President of the United States falls in love with a Prince of England, and difficulties ensue. There is a lot of politics sprinkled throughout the story, but it doesn’t pull away from the charm. I would absolutely read a sequel to this. I read this for the PopSugar Reading Challenge this year —
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Ninth House is Leigh Bardugo’s first foray into the non-YA arena, and I think she does well. This is a dark, twisty, contemporary fantasy story set at Yale. At this Yale, the secret societies all practice magic, and one society, the House of Lethe, is there to watch over them and keep them in line. Though “house” and “society” may be a little generous, as
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I’m sorry, but Drew is completely unlikable. He’s basically everything you think of when you call a man a pig. You go into it really wanting to believe Kate can change him, but is he really capable of changing? There was so much problematic stuff here. Drew doesn’t really change as much as he decides Kate is the thing he wants and he’s going to
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