Category: Book Review
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End of Trilogies (The End of the Journey): The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman
The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman Rating: 4/5 Finishing a series is difficult (just ask G.R.R. Martin!) Many a great trilogy has fallen on its face in the final pages. Take Hunger Games, Divergent or the Matched Trilogy for instance. The world building is incredible….and then you get to the last book. Everything feels rushed…
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Book Review: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
Rating: 4/5 Remember when I blathered on about Deborah Harkness last month? Well the last book in her trilogy is FINALLY out and it is a great conclusion to the story. Click through for more
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Book Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Rating: 5/5 I rarely rate new books a 5/5, but this one more than fit the bill. All of the things that challenged me about Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence and Gone Girl made me love We Were Liars. I loved the unreliable narrator, the sudden twist close to…
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Book Review: The Yard by Alex Grecian
After recommending Dust and Shadow and The Gods of Gotham, you probably thought I had run out of police procedurals set in the Victorian era. But of course where there’s a will, there’s a way and I’ve found a new series to love. The Yard by Alex Grecian is set a few months after…
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Focus On: Book Series
It’s been a while since I’ve focused on a type of book and I though now would be the perfect time to look at some series I recently read. Gods of Gotham and Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye: These books follow Timothy Wilde a bartender turned Star Policeman in the early days…
The Library of Alexandra 