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I can’t say that I loved this, but it was alright. It was interesting, at least. The story follows Apricot and her family through their missionary trips to Haiti. They were almost accidental missionaries, falling into the opportunity as her parents searched for adventure, but it soon became an obsession. Apricot’s father was there as an agronomist, believing that trees were the key to a
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I normally do not gravitate towards books that are centered around mythology or folklore, but my book club was reading this and I’d heard such great things about it that I decided to give it a fair shake. Circe is the daughter of a god (Helios) and a nymph. She is often scored by her family and others in her home because she’s just a
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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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