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Song of the Huntress | Lucy Holland
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Wessex, & its king & queen, are beset on all sides, betrayal from within, enemies at their border, & a fae threat believed to only be a story. & Samhain approaches.

This retelling of The Wild Hunt lived up to all my expectations! The characters are all so vivid! This whole story has a gorgeous weight to it. & the pacing! As the tension ramped up, I could literally feel my blood pounding in my ears as the climax of the story approached. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕

BookmarkTavern Release Date: Tomorrow! #NetGalley #ARC #LGBTQBookBingo #LGBTQ2024 @Kenyazero Aromantic or asexual (edited) 10h
Kenyazero This sounds like an absolute treat 🤩 8h
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Julsmarshall
Here We Go Again: A Novel | Alison Cochrun
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Two women who were best friends as children but enemies since high school, join forces to move their beloved former HS teacher across the country as his dying wish. Shenanigans ensue as they come to terms with his reality as his life is ending and what is next for them as theirs is just beginning. This queer, buddy road trip adventure is funny, poignant, and unforgettable. I loved it! Releases 4/2. #ARC #metgalleygroup @AllDebooks

AllDebooks Yay, you're racing through them x 3d
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Yuki_Onna
Nanoland | Jack McGuigan
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#ItTakesAllKinds #WithMap @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
A high-voltage sci-fi adventure story in a Disneyland-like amusement park of the future. The computer programming starts to glitch increasingly, pixel-holes, a few hushed-up attacks & accidents happen. Soon the AI goes fully awry and the remaining guests and staff of the park have to fight for their lives against attractions turned unpredictable & murderous to find a way out of the madhouse.

Yuki_Onna Continued:
You could feel how much fun the author had with telling the story of the things going, a bit like a kid in a candy shop, but after a while, it was just too goofy and stupid. There were tons of inconsistencies. And sorry, no one, no matter how loyal or brainwashed or partially incorporated by the park you were, would act that way when people are starting to get killed. No. No way. ...
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Yuki_Onna continued:
There were so many instances where I just rolled my eyes because it just doesn't work that way, at least not on paper.
Maybe this would work better as a Hollywood blockbuster movie where all is action & nothing needs to make sense anymore.
Where were the editors on this one? This book is so promising – it could have been enhanced to a whole another level by a tough round of editing!
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Yuki_Onna continued:
The ending with its very sinister twists redeems the goofy middle part a little, and, as I said, it was a fast ride! 3,5/5⭐
Thank you, #LibraryThing for an #EarlyReviewer #ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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Eggs Sounds compelling! 4d
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BookmarkTavern
All Our Yesterdays | Joel H. Morris
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Mehso-so

“What‘s done is done,” the story of the woman who grew to be Lady MacBeth and queen of Scotland.

I wanted to like this so much! But this took an ambitious, active character & turned her into a passive, fearful woman whose entire life was driven by the men around her. She makes so few choices, it frustrated me. Very well written, w/ the supernatural atmosphere I wanted from one of my fave Shakespeare plays, but ultimately disappointing. 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑

BookmarkTavern Release Date: March 12th, 2024 #ARC #NetGalley CW 👇🏻 1w
BookmarkTavern Section I: deals party with main character‘s marriage and pregnancy as a child bride; Section II: The Autumn, brief recounting of incestuous SA of a child, brief child abuse; Section IV: The Spring, child death, miscarriage 1w
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Megabooks
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Thank you to #HachetteBooks for sending me this #arc about dating while chronically ill! I‘m starting to stick my toe in those waters after a decade away, so I‘m really looking forward to this one! US pub date July 9. #HBSocialClub

squirrelbrain Such a pretty picture! 💛 1w
BarbaraBB ❤️❤️ 1w
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 💛 1w
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Megabooks @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks thanks y‘all! It‘s been wonderful finally having flowers to shoot photos with! 1w
Reggie I hope you meet a reader! 1w
Megabooks @Reggie me too!! 2d
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Read4life
Untitled | Unknown
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Nine books finished in the first nine days of March.

They included books for:
#NoPlaceLikeHolmes #SeriesLove2024 #Roll100 #ReadOrDonate #SeasonalCozies #readyourebooks #AuthorAMonth #ARC

Four Leaf Felony is in the running for LEAST favorite read of the month. 😖

Cuilin 🎉✔️🧡 1w
dabbe 💚💙💚 1w
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1w
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CSeydel Wow 1w
CBee Awesome 👏🏻 1w
julieclair Poor Four Leaf Felony! ☘️ I just realized I have one from this series planned for May. Perhaps I‘d better rethink that. 🤣 1w
Read4life @julieclair I‘m thinking about trying book 2 in May. I‘m hoping it gets better. I like her other series so 🤞🏻 1w
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Yuki_Onna
Thistlefoot | GennaRose Nethercott
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Breanne1 I loved Thistlefoot! 1w
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Monica5
Off the Air: A Novel | Christina Estes
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Mehso-so

Off the Air is Christina Estes' debut book. It's a fiction story that looks at the life of a TV news reporter. Jolene is the last person to do an interview with local radio celebrity Larry Lemmon before he dies on air.

I don't know about other readers of this book, but to me, it seemed more like a behind the scenes look at a newsroom and the job reporters have than a fictional book. It compared how things used to be in reporting the news.⬇️

Monica5 .to how it is today.

There was mystery in it as you don't know what happened to Larry Lemmon until almost the end. I did like the red herrings, but the book was a very soft 3⭐ for me. I did enjoy some of the characters, I didn't notice much character development.

As I figure this is probably going to be a series, I.will read the next book. I'll give Estes another shot before I give up on her.

Trigger Warnings:
Abandonment, ageism, animal cruelty, child neglect, classism, homelessness, racism, sexism, sexual coercion and substance abuse.

Tentative Publishing Date: March 26, 2024

Thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin's Press and Minotaur Books for the e E-ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

😊 Happy Reading 😊

#netgalley #bookspinbingo #arc #readaway2024
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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick
Everyone Is Watching | Heather Gudenkauf
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I started this #ARC last night that I won. It's due to come out at the end of the month, so no time better than the present to read it.

It's a bummer when you don't get a proper cover page in the e-ARC for posting. I had to superimpose a picture over my screen to make it look good! 😄

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vlwelser
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I loved this. It's freaking adorable. I got about halfway and couldn't stop.

First travel book complete. 🛫 Haven't even made it on the plane yet.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Pub date is 7/16/24
#ARC #Netgalley

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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