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Robin Shipton 📚 rated The Duchess War: 5 stars

The Duchess War by Courtney Milan (The Brothers Sinister, #1)
Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and she wants to keep it that way. After all, the last …
Robin Shipton 📚 commented on The Duchess War by Courtney Milan (The Brothers Sinister, #1)
Robin Shipton 📚 commented on The Duchess War by Courtney Milan (The Brothers Sinister, #1)
Very early meet-cute! I like the MCs already, save a few tiny off notes. This is really early Milan, but it’s already quite polished. Tightly paced, almost—but not quite—feeling rushed.
I’m enjoying this. Onward!
Robin Shipton 📚 rated Nona the Ninth: 5 stars

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party. In many …
Robin Shipton 📚 commented on Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)
The story is thoroughly engaging even while I still don’t know what the heck is really going on. It’s telling an enjoyable story while feeding the reader enough clues to the mystery to feel like both are making steady progress in tandem.
Robin Shipton 📚 started reading Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)
Robin Shipton 📚 rated A Highland Hogmanay: 5 stars

A Highland Hogmanay by Meg Mardell (Christmas Masquerade, #2)
The daughter of an Indian raja and renegade Englishwoman, Sharda Holkar, was gifted with a magnificent dowry but little say …
Robin Shipton 📚 finished reading A Highland Hogmanay by Meg Mardell (Christmas Masquerade, #2)
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Robin Shipton 📚 wants to read The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliott
Motivated by: wandering.shop/@stephanieburgis/109485062308251985 and the linked review!
Robin Shipton 📚 wants to read Heartburn by Nora Ephron
"Heartburn, Ephron’s only novel, is a thinly veiled and darkly hilarious story about a woman whose husband has an affair when she’s seven months pregnant." —Isabel Kaplan, "My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I'm a writer"
"Heartburn, Ephron’s only novel, is a thinly veiled and darkly hilarious story about a woman whose husband has an affair when she’s seven months pregnant." —Isabel Kaplan, "My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I'm a writer"

Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Core Rulebook by Max Brooke, Katrina Ostrander (Legend of the Five Rings 5th Edition)
In the land of Rokugan, the Emerald Empire has lasted for a thousand years. Under the guidance of the noble …
Robin Shipton 📚 rated Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2nd Edition: 4 stars

Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2nd Edition by Jay Iles, Douglas Santana Mota
What Happens after the Apocalypse?
Your ancestors survived thanks to luck, preparation or pure grit. Now it’s time to …


