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Friday, April 2, 2021
The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
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Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I really need to quit reading stories where the descript...
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is the first audiobook I've had from Netgalley a...
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook
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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This novel for middle-graders was light and entertainin...
Girl Warriors by Rachel Sarah
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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a book consisting of short bios of 26 young fem...
That Thing about Bollywood by Supriya Kelkar
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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This middle-grade work of fiction is about Sonali, a yo...
The Song of Sirin by Nicholas Kotar
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Rating: WARTY! This novel is a retelling of the old Russian story of Prince Ivan and the Gray Wolf . Many of these old folk tales are...
Ouroboros by Odette C Bell
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Rating: WARTY! This book is a dumb - and I might add highly inapropriate - so-called romance between Nida Harper, who is a cadet at th...
Damaged by Becca Vincenza
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Rating: WARTY! I didn't realize this was a werewolf story or I would have avoided it like the plague. Werewolf stories are margin...
Luna caged: Behind the Wall by Margaret McHeyer
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Rating: WARTY! I gave up on this pretty quickly. I knew going in that it was first person which I typically despise, but once in a wh...
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Rating: WARTY! This is an 1855 novel about teenager Margaret Hale, who is forced to leave her beloved parsonage when her father rebels...
The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen
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Rating: WORTHY! Peter Brannen is a science journalist and in this audio book he talks (or more accurately, Adam Verner talks, since he...
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
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Rating: WARTY! I DNF'd this about halfway through, annoyed by how cavalierly this author treats a young woman she is supposed to b...
Saturday, March 13, 2021
When Harry Became Sally by Ryan T Anderson
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Rating: WARTY! Tell me, Mr. Anderson: what good is a book if you're unable to write one? The book description for this religious...
Monday, March 1, 2021
When Wishes Bleed by Casey L Bond
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Rating: WARTY! "When Sable reads Prince Tauren’s fortune, an omen reveals his deadly fate… Can she change it by joining the compe...
To the Center of the Earth by Greig Beck
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Rating: WARTY! "After learning of a centuries-old manuscript that contains the passage to the center of the Earth, caving expert ...
All at Once by Brill Harper
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Rating: WARTY! Bliss can’t restrain her fantasies about Levi and Wylder, her new bosses at the Wylder Colt Ranch. Can the two sexy, do...
Sweet Lake by Christine Nolfi
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Rating: WARTY! Christine Nolfi is a good name for an author. I just wish it were associated with something better than retreaded roma...
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
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Rating: WARTY! "From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author! Mark Spitz fights to survive and adapt in the aftermath of global devastati...
Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles: Books 1–3 by Rebecca Chastain
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Rating: WARTY! Rebecca Chastain is actually quite a cool name for a novelist, but the book description? Not so cool! "When Mika...
Forbidden Friend by R Cayden
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Rating: WARTY! "Leo’s world is turned upside down when his best friend’s identical twin brother moves into their shared condo! Le...
Aurora Sky: Vampire Hunter by Nikki Jefford
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Rating: WARTY! "First in an action-packed series: Thanks to her rare blood type, Aurora finds herself battling the undead in Alas...
Night Broken by Patricia Briggs
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Rating: WARTY! If this novel has "over 29,000 five-star Goodreads ratings" why is it being flogged at a discount in a book f...
The Witching Place by Sophie Love
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Rating: WARTY! Here's a classic - a tediously-tired, over-done, boringly trope plot: "After being fired and breaking up with ...
Too Close by R Phoenix
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Rating: WARTY! "After their mother abandons them, Skylar and his sister Evie are taken in by wealthy Tate, who at first seems to ...
The Dream by Whitney Dineen
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Rating: WARTY! "Ashley has been crushing on Davis since high school - though she's always known he's out of her league. B...
Looking for Leon by Shirley Benton Non-Review Number 1!
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Rating: WARTY! Okay, here's a new thing I'm going to be doing for 2021. There are some 'non-reviews' that I'm goi...
Witch Ways by Kristy Tate
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Rating: WARTY! This is a wannabe young adult novel, but the main character is only fifteen, which technically is young adult territory...
The Witches of the Wytewoods by MJ Thompson
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Rating: WORTHY! This is a British novel which is fine with me, but some stateside readers might find the wording rather peculiar at ti...
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
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Rating: WARTY! In Italian, Divina Commedia or originally just Comedia , this is a poetic work describing a descent into hell by Dante...
Vast by Linda Nagata
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Rating: WORTHY! This is the last Nagata that I read although I understand this one is superseded by another novel called Edge . I hav...
The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata
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Rating: WARTY! I know I read this, but I recall nothing about it, which tells me it wasn't that great even though at the time I di...
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