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Category Archives: Pretty Covers
The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat?) by Brittany Gibbons
The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat?) is the standalone follow-up to Brittany Gibbons’ Fat Girl Walking that I read a few years ago. My review? This is more of the same Brittany from her social media presences and the … Continue reading
Rebel Angels & The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle 2&3) by Libba Bray
Oh look, I’m actually for once reviewing an ENTIRE series! Usually my interest in writing up reviews tends to fizzle out after the first one, it seems. Especially when my interest in the book fizzles out like it did with … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Pretty Covers, Young Adult
Tagged fantasy, gemma doyle, pretty covers, witches, young adult
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A Strange and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle #1) – Libba Bray
What a strange book. It kept me entertained, but as I sit here thinking about it, more and more stuff keeps popping into my mind. First, the good. OK, this cover? Gorgeous, and really the thing that made me read … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Pretty Covers, Young Adult
Tagged fantasy, gemma doyle, pretty covers, witches, young adult
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The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Ok, I know I’ve been on a Susanna Kearsley kick lately, but this cover is SOOO pretty! I liked this one fairly well. Successful author Carrie finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Scotland’s Slains castle while writing her latest book. … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Pretty Covers
Tagged historical fiction, Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea
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The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
This wasn’t a terrible book, but I didn’t like it as much as I expected to after having just read The Shadowy Horses. This one was a more predictable time travel romance which is really not my thing. Eva’s sister dies … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Pretty Covers
Tagged Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden
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The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
Again, I was looking for something different, and found this. I guess you’d call it half archaeological mystery and half ghost story. (Hmmm, I wonder if that makes it fall into the magical realism category???) Narrator Verity Grey is hired … Continue reading
Timeless by Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate #5)
Why, what a cute little bowler hat, Alexia! And, although I just love the picture of the Sphinx in the background, I do wish it had shown up in the novel…a mere reference to the Valley of Kings is not … Continue reading
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Tagged alexia tarabotti, parasol protectorate, preternatural, steampunk
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Heartless by Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate #4)
So apparently, Gail Carriger is analogous in the book world to M. Night Shyamalan in movie circles. Really. She is the hit-or-miss novel equivalent of that dude in producing movies, and apparently they’re both predictable about it too; every other … Continue reading
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Tagged alexia tarabotti, gail carriger, parasol protectorate, steampunk
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Blameless by Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate #3)
After the last middling sequel in the “Parasol Protectorate” series, I had fears this might be my last Alexia Tarabotti novel. After all, they’re not offering these newer editions in ebook form free from the library, and I certainly was … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Paranormal, Pretty Covers, Royalty
Tagged alexia tarabotti, paranormal, parasol protectorate, steampunk
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Changeless by Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate #2)
Sophomore slump. That’s my assessment of this second novel in Gail Carriger’s “The Parasol Protectorate” series, Changeless. There was way more steampunkish stuff in book two, this “novel of vampires, werewolves, and dirigibles.” By this, I mean lots of … Continue reading
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Tagged alexia tarabotti, changeless, parasol protectorate, steampunk
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