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2021: #8 – The Obelisk Gate (N.K. Jemisin)

March 7, 2021March 1, 2021 0 Comment
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

This second book in the Broken Earth Trilogy doesn’t pack the same punch as the first one, but it is still quite good. Essun now lives in the underground settlement of Castrima. She still wants to find her daughter Nassun, but the oncoming Season makes this nearly impossible. But in Castrima she has found Alabaster, the man who broke the world, who was her teacher,

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fantasy high/epic fantasy review 

2020: #12 – The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin)

May 24, 2020May 22, 2020 0 Comment
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

It’s been a long time since I read a fantasy novel like this. The Fifth Season is the first of a trilogy, so don’t expect a complete story here. It took me a little while to get into, because there is a lot of world building. The world of this story is not like our own. There is one single continent, full of “comms” that

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Hi, I’m Jaime…

That’s I before M, 5 letters, no Ys. Obsessed with books. A lot.

   

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Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
contemporary romance review romance 

2021: #81 – Spoiler Alert (Olivia Dade)

November 1, 2022October 31, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments

I really liked the heart of this book. I loved April and her unapologetic geekiness, and I liked what Dade has to say about body positivity, and that she wrote a male protagonist that walks the talk. What I wasn’t expecting was just how detailed into the fanfiction subculture this was going to go. It’s one of the few times I’ve started a book and

Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton
review romance romantic suspense 

2021: #80 – Cover Your Eyes (Mary Burton)

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
hf - multi-period saga historical fiction 

2021: #79 – Fall of Giants (Ken Follett)

August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
fantasy high/epic fantasy review 

2021: #78 – The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)

July 7, 2022July 7, 2022 Jaime 0 Comments

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