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A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

McKinney's debut introduces readers to a Wonderland-like world filled with dark, nightmarish monsters and to 17-year-old Alice Kingston who finds herself battling these dreamscape creatures while trying to balance an overprotective mom, school, and a social life. 

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Review of Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven and a ‘Romantic Fantasy Starter Kit’ Giveaway

To help celebrate the release of the first book in Grace Draven’s Fallen Empire series I'm sharing with you Penguin Random House's exciting giveaway of a ‘Romantic Fantasy Starter Kit’ that also features other first-in-series romantic fantasy books (including books by Nalini Singh, Chloe Neill, Ilona Andrews, Anne Bishop, and Patricia Briggs)! Below you can read my review and find a link to the giveaway which runs September 3 — September 19. 

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Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton

Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton is filled with lush and atmospheric writing as it weaves a haunting and dizzying tale of witchery, secrets, and sacrifice. Picture a small idyllic village, surrounded by a dense forest, isolated and protected from all harm. A village that knows no sickness, one where everyone prospers and harm never befall its people. Now picture within that forest a dark spirit of terror lying in wait—the devil, and he is waiting for his sacrifice.

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