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Review: Of Poseidon, Anna Banks

Title: Of Poseidon (Goodreads) Author:  Anna Banks (website) (twitter) Rating: Galen is strong, protective and gorgeous, with striking violet eyes and a body to make you shiver – and that’s just when he’s in human form. He’s from the House of Triton, god of the sea, and he’s searching for a girl with the gift of Poseidon […]
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Posted on February 7, 2013
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Review: The Water Witch, Carol Goodman

Title: Water Witch (Goodreads) Author:  Carol Goodman (or her pseudonym, Juliet Dark) Rating: “You have only to call my name to bring me back”, he whispered, his breath hot in my ear. “You have only to love me to make me human”. Callie McFay is the guardian of the last gateway between the world of Faerie and […]
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Posted on February 4, 2013
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Review: Besieged, Rowena Cory Daniells

Title: Besieged (Goodreads) Author:  Rowena Cory Daniells (website) (twitter) Rating: Sorne, the estranged son of a King on the verge of madness, is being raised as a weapon to wield against the mystical Wyrds. Half a continent away, his father is planning to lay siege to the Celestial City, the home of the T En, whose wyrd […]
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Posted on February 2, 2013
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Review: The Gathering Dark, Leigh Bardugo

Title: The Gathering Dark (Goodreads) or Shadow and Bone in USA Author:  Leigh Bardugo (website) (twitter) Rating: The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish […]
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Posted on January 29, 2013
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Review: Through the Ever Night, Veronica Rossi

Title: Through the Ever Night (Goodreads) Author:  Veronica Rossi (website) (twitter) Rating: It’s been months since Aria last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don’t take […]
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Posted on January 28, 2013
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Review: Graceling, Kristin Cashore

Title: Graceling (Goodreads) Author:  Kristin Cashore (website) Rating: In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are both feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. Feared by the court and shunned by those her own age, the darkness of her Grace […]
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Posted on January 23, 2013
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Review: Under the Never Sky, Veronica Rossi

Title: Under the Never Sky (Goodreads) Author:  Veronica Rossi (website) (twitter) Rating: Exiled from her safe home in the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria finds herself in the outer wastelands known as the Death Shop. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent energy storms will. There she meets a savage, an Outsider named Perry – wild, dangerous […]
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Posted on January 17, 2013
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Review: Incubus, Carol Goodman

Title: Incubus (Goodreads) or The Demon Lover in the US Author:  Carol Goodman (or her pseudonym, Juliet Dark) Rating: Dr. Callie McFay travels to the small college town of Fairwick in New York State for a job interview. Despite it being her second choice she finds herself talked into accepting a job offer from the Folklore Department […]
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Posted on December 20, 2012
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Review: Touch of Power, Maria V Snyder

Title: Touch of Power (Goodreads) Author:  Maria V Snyder Rating: Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan assumes their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honoured for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Territories, leaving the survivors in a […]
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Posted on December 13, 2012
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Review: Days of Blood and Starlight, Laini Taylor

Title: Days of Blood and Starlight (Goodreads) Author:  Laini Taylor (@lainitaylor) Rating: Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living – one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers’ arms to […]
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Posted on November 22, 2012
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