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I thought this was a decent urban fantasy one-off that wasn’t limited to one “species”. Graf is a vampire who is driving through America’s heartland when he stumbles into a town that he can’t quite get out of. And to make things more interesting, there’s a monster wandering around, eating people. This monster seems to be especially attracted to one woman, Jessa, who has been
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I chose this as a palate cleanser after my last read, and it didn’t quite end up as I expected. This starts out as sort of a retelling of Cinderella, except something has gone terribly wrong. Lil, Cinderella’s fairy godmother, fell in love with the Prince instead of Cinderella, and for her troubles she is banished from the fairy kingdom, doomed to live her days
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This book had some red flags for me. First, it starts out with some folklore. I really just have no patience for folklore. My eyes glaze over and I start skimming. But I hung in and kept going! Second, the genre lies somewhere between fantasy and historical fiction and magical realism, and magical realism and I have never gotten along well. Nonetheless, I stuck with
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“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.” It’s been a long time since I read a true fantasy novel. I had heard a lot of buzz about Uprooted over the last year, and all of it was positive. It was one of the few fantasy novels that I’d see people recommend over and over. And
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