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The Unicorn Hunters

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description Anne of Brittany was a child when France invaded and drove her royal father to his death. Now she is a young woman, sovereign duchess of an occupied realm, and France means to crown their conquest by marrying her to their king. Such… Continue reading The Unicorn Hunters

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The Bewitching

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description โ€œBack then, when I was a young woman, there were still witchesโ€: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minervaโ€”stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps thatโ€™s why Minerva has become a graduate student… Continue reading The Bewitching

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By the Moonโ€™s Good Grace

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description The night after the tumultuous events at her grandmotherโ€™s house, Little Red ventures into the woods to find her missing grandmother. Instead, she discovers a stranger who claims to be her aunt โ€ฆ and learns a startling secret. Her family are wolves, changing form in phase with the moon, and the beast slain… Continue reading By the Moonโ€™s Good Grace

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Cinder House

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description You think you know Cinderellaโ€™s story: the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince. Youโ€™re halfway right, and all-the-way wrong. Ella is a haunting. Murdered at sixteen, her furious ghost is trapped in her fatherโ€™s house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters. Even when she discovers how to untether herself from… Continue reading Cinder House

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Market of Loss

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description There are many things for sale at the market of loss. Your mother's heart. A smile that makes you ache. A chance to feel alive for the first time, or the last. But remember, before you buy, everything at the market is really… Continue reading Market of Loss

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The Demon King

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description He is known as The Prince of Lies. The Father of Demons. He is Alagai Ka, the Demon King. Though humanity won a hard-fought victory in its war against demonkind, the Demon King has escaped in search of a new queen to restart… Continue reading The Demon King

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The Sourdough Compendium

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description Within these pages, coffin-makers work hard to keep the dead buried and their own murderous urges in check; poison girls are schooled in the art of marital assassination; books carry forth stories and forbidden secrets; a young witch wreaks a terrible revenge on… Continue reading The Sourdough Compendium

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Emily Wildeโ€™s Encyclopaedia of Faeries

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description Emily Wilde is good at many things: she is the foremost expert on the study of faeries; she is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik,… Continue reading Emily Wildeโ€™s Encyclopaedia of Faeries

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Countess

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the ร†cerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies. After years of working hard to rise through the ranks of the empireโ€™s merchant marine, sheโ€™s finally become first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel. When her captain dies under suspicious circumstances,… Continue reading Countess

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The Haunting of Kenmore Aslyum

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description I am always there.Perhaps I always have been?Perhaps there is no end for me โ€ฆ 1910The mentally unwell are considered dangerous and a blight to be kept hidden from family and society. The recently opened Kenmore Asylum is bursting at the seams. Amidst… Continue reading The Haunting of Kenmore Aslyum