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This was a great start to the series!

Going into this, I knew nothing about the comic or the danmei novel it was based on. I went into it blind.

First off, the art is absolutely stunning! Since I had an ARC, the majority of the book was in black and white. However, there were some pages in the beginning that were in full color.

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Lucy gets help from her fellow witches and vampire knitting friends to solve a murder that occurs at a summer fair. This series is so much fun!

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Feeling nostalgic, I recently picked up the first 3 books in this series which I enjoyed as a child. It feels very dated in its portrayal of women's roles and how the airline industry is run (in-flight meals included an after-dinner cigarette). Still, I found this book thoroughly charming and fun to read.

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This review is for Such Dangerous Seas, a novella bundled with Be the Serpent that tells the backstory of the sea-witch Luidaeg. Recommended for fans of the October Daye series.

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Wow, what a cover. I wish I could turn it into a Dixit card.

An intriguing but somewhat disappointing Cinderella retelling. (I'll put why in a spoiler comment.) Our Ella is sadly a ghost, and how this affects her life is told in a very visceral manner, consumed with how much Ella wants to feel and experience things and the strange, limited ways in which she can. Some of it really gave me the ick, to be honest, but the prose is beautiful.

A really interesting take on the magic boarding school story, because it's from the perspective of an adult and moreover, the adult primarily in charge of the safety of the kids. (How many times have I read one of these books going, “WTH is wrong with all the grown ups in this school?!)

I felt there were important issues raised around the nature of demons that weren't sufficiently explored, so I didn't love it as much as I might have.

This was just way too YA for me. Just not for me.

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This was a low pick. The audiobook and story were a bit meh. I wasn‘t trying to find times to listen to it and was a bit bored at times.

I‘ve apparently been reading a lot of cursed family books.

This family is cursed to never fall in love. They either have to ensnare someone to get married or they die at 30. Doreen decides to try and break the curse before her 30th bday.

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This was pretty good. A take on beauty and the beast. Briar‘s dad who is an inventor basically sells her away to get married as an omega to alphas. He did a lot of experimenting on her to keep her “healthy”. She‘s never eaten real food. She used to do ballet but got injured and can no longer perform. She has to navigate her new world and figure out who these 3 guys are to her.

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