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A man can’t be two types of beast. Beauregard “Bug” Montage is hanging on by a thread. His mechanic shop is losing business to the new shop in town, his daughter needs college tuition, and his mother lied about her income and now is getting kicked out of her nursing home. He needs money, bad. But there’s one thing Bug is really great at, and
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Ninth House is Leigh Bardugo’s first foray into the non-YA arena, and I think she does well. This is a dark, twisty, contemporary fantasy story set at Yale. At this Yale, the secret societies all practice magic, and one society, the House of Lethe, is there to watch over them and keep them in line. Though “house” and “society” may be a little generous, as
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This book made me glad that I’m not a teenager anymore! Basically every girl in this book was a bitch except for one, and that includes the main character. Becca is basically the goth girl in her grade, despite formerly being friends with the ultimate Barbie, Tasha. But when Tasha is pulled from the cold river, nearly dead, Becca doesn’t hesitate to run to her
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The Guineveres is the story of 4 girls named Guinevere who befriend each other after each being left at a convent to live until they are 18. It is wartime (though we don’t know which war, exactly), and after a failed escape attempt, they are assigned to taking care of young, comatose soldiers in the convent’s sick ward. For the girls, these soldiers aren’t a
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