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SPOOKY FLORIDA GOTHIC captures the alienation of a fractured family, the eeriness of a tightly knit community, and the hidden danger in the local landscape. SOLID B

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/they-come-from-the-water-wendy-dalrymple/1141766743

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By the way, mastodon, Trip Galey's book 'A Market of Dreams and Destiny', is terrific! Have you ever read a book involving fairy bargains and goblin market and thought, 'yes, please, more of that please'? If so, this book is absolutely what you've been waiting for. Fairy bargains piled high and deep, plus labour unions, rhyming bells (lovely magical touch there) and a matchmaking talking cat.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61933929

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Cover of 'A Market of Dreams and Destiny' by Trip Galey. On a dark blue background, a twirling vinework with multicoloured leaves and flours hung with gold bells curl around the title and author text. In the center are the golden profiles of two men, with a cat at their feet. A crown hovers at the top, above the first word of the title.

WILD, HILARIOUS TAKES on US history and literature from the incomparable Alexandra Petri. John and Abigail Adams sexting? The Federalist Papers as a paperback thriller? Yes, please! A MINUS

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324006435

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Hello, friends! Remember blogs? I has one. I even occasionally write in it. Here are my thoughts on Emma Southon's new book, 'A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women'.

Apparently Augustus's daughterJulia absolutely loved to get her some, and Tacitus and Suetonius are absolute pricks.

(Seriously, if you're sleepign on Emma Southon, you've got to fix that. Hers is the only voice I want telling me history anymore.)

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https://dampskunk.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/a-history-of-the-roman-empire-in-21-women-2023-by-emma-southon/

Cover of Emma Southon's 'A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women: How women transformed the empire'. The text is in black and magenta, on a soft off-white background with a braided border. Black and white images of women dot the edges. One is holding a distaff; one has a head on a pike; and one is riding a camel waving a bloody sword.

THE EXQUISITE TORTURE OF PASSION and the ways in which it sets one at odds with the rest of the world, captured in a story of unlikely, intense fandom and thwarted love. Elegant and surreal parable for our time. B PLUS

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720258/yn-by-esther-yi/

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INTENSE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER full of twists and turns, with an on-point setting in Austin, Texas and a wild but engaging plot. B PLUS

https://bookviewcafe.com/book/truth-truth-lie/

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THRILLING YET THOUGHTFUL novel weaves through real and fictional timelines and unravels mysteries of love, ethnic identity, memory, and corporate ruthlessness. Fascinating and haunting. B PLUS

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720885/flux-by-jinwoo-chong/

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I just finished reading "How to loose friends and alienate people."

It wasn't my kind of book exactly and was a thrift store impulse buy. I think fomr the title I was hoping for more of an instruction manual than a memoir 😂

It had some slightly introspecitve, and perhaps even satirical moments. Those made it good enough to earn it a 3/5 stars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lose_Friends_%26_Alienate_People_(memoir)

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WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, bad things happen, even when some of the worlds are virtual. Breathtaking science fiction thriller plays on the edge of quantum entanglements between games and life. A MINUS

https://www.amazon.com/GRONE-Legends-Known-Arc-Book/dp/B0BVT3K13R/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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DELIGHTFUL FANTASY THRILLER with equal parts magic, adventure, and romance finds the passion and fun in two very mannered, controlled, and deadly secret agents. Witty and charmingly erudite. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-secret-service-of-tea-and-treason-india-holton/1141813883?ean=9780593547267

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AN ELUSIVE, UNSETTLING VISION of a future where the lines between human and humanoid has blurred, but in which bureaucracy continues to thrive, even in space. Witty, true, sometimes terrifying. B PLUS

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-employees/#buying-options

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Hello, Mastodon! I've got a review up on Nerds of a Feather, in which I reflect upon the balance of vibes, world-building, ontogeny, and characterization in Alex Pheby's 'Mordew'.

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/06/microreview-mordew-by-alex-pheby.html

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Cover of Mordew, by Alex Pheby. A pen and ink illustration of a boy at the base of a wall, looking up at an enormous bird. Behind him, shacks fill a slum underneath the buildings of a city that rise behind him up a slope. The sky is clouded, and the aspect is very dark and moody.