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War is always a bloody and destructive thing and in House of Crimson Roses by Chad Lester we see first-hand how it affects people. The book opens on the eve of the American Civil War with the attack on Harper’s Ferry. It soon transitions to one particular family, the Beaumonts, and the slaves that they…
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It is time to return to a world of prophecy, or at least a world where prophecies exist even if everyone seems to think they are currently broken. The Art of Destiny is the second book in the War Arts Saga by Wesley Chu and continues the adventures of Jian, the prophesized hero of the…
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Today’s book is one that I found really fascinating but one that is also rather disturbing in some ways. Nothing But The Truth is a young adult novel by Avi and tells the story of Philip Malloy. It opens with Philip finding out that he is unable to try out for the high school track…
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This book is probably not one that I would have picked to read by myself but I received it through the early reviewers program with Library thing so I went ahead and read it. The book in question was 52 weeks: A Party of One by Bianca Pensy Aba. It opens on New Years with…
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I am trying out a new author, well new to me at least, with the book In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune. It tells the story of a young man named Victor Lawson who lives deep in the forest in a tree house built in a grove of trees. Alongside him are Giovanni…
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This next one was a bit of a doozy. Misery Plaza by J. J. Alo tells the story of a man who is being forced to face his past. After being found by a previous associate the man, now going by the name Potter, takes his two young children and leaves town knowing the law…
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What is a book? And what is a story? These are questions that continue to be explored in The Archive of the Forgotten, the second book in the Hell’s Library series by A. J. Hackwith. It picks up six months after the events of the first book, The Library of the Unwritten, as the employees…
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In this next book we return to a world that is both creepy and dark with Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods, book three of the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. It opens with Gregor trying to hide the mysterious prophecy of blood from the rest of his family as they each desperately try…
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I absolutely love a good historical fiction epic and I think a found a good one. Fall of Giants is the first book in The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. He also wrote the Kingsbridge series that I have also talked about previously. This book opens shortly before WWI and covers the events of the…
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Three generations of women all tied together by secrets. In the book Cecile’s Secret by Ruth E. Hill, it all starts with one secret held by a woman named Cecile Legrand. The book opens on Cecile being recruited to serve as a spy and resistance operative in WWII France in 1944. While there she ends…
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