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Book-Reviewer: Fantasy, sci-fi, historical fiction, classics, literature, graphic novels, etc.
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Brooke's review of An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)
5/5: James Islington’s An Echo of Things to Come (2017) continues the sweeping scope of The Licanius Trilogy with confidence and ambition. Following the events of The Shadow of What Was Lost, this sec...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Brooke's review of Fury (The Cure, #1A)
3/5: Before Charlotte McConaghy entered the world of adult literature, she wrote some SciFi/Fantasy YA novellas set in a dystopian society (in the same vein as Divergent). So I had to check them out. ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🛋️🕯️📚Brooke’s Book Nook
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#classics #shortstory #scifi
Brooke's review of Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
5/5: A good short story is not about the words on the page. Sure, they're part of it. But there is a space between the words where a whole other world exists. A good short story provides a door to get...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#dystopia #Koreanauthor #mystery #thriller
Brooke's review of Snowglobe (Snowglobe Duology, #1)
3/5: A dystopian mystery/thriller set in a climate-devastated earth where the only temperate climate is inside a controlled glass-dome. Residents inside the dome are part of a reality television enter...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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#holidayhorror #shortstories #kindleunlimited
Brooke's review of Season's Creepings
4/5: An entertaining collection of holiday shorts with a twist of terror. I loved some of the premises and settings, among them: a glow-in-the-dark cardboard skeleton come to life, a Christmas Tree wi...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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#discworld #terrypratchett #fantasy #satire
Brooke's review of Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch, #7)
5/5: A Sam Vimes detective procedural. Duke, Commander, new father, and... A troll in the dwarf mines goes on a rampage (It's one of those givens). What happens in Koom Valley....will be investigate...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Brooke's review of Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)
5/5: Carpe Jugulum... Go for the throat This was a delight! So smart and so funny. Hilarious satire regarding belief, acceptance, and kindness. Filled with both irony and warmth. This is one of the bo...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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#charlottemcconaghy
#oncetherewerewolves
#fiction
#mysterythriller
Brooke's review of Once There Were Wolves
5/5: Really intense and powerful literary thriller featuring the ecological wonders of Scotland. Inti has an understanding of the balance wolves bring to the ecosystem, and has made her life's work re...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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#fantasy #urbanfantasy #josiahbancroft #thehexologists #steampunk
Brooke's review of The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)
5/5: A quasi-Victorian Fantasy detective mystery with a a really delightful magic system! There are several branches of magic in this post-industrial society; alchemy, wizardry, hexology (which keeps ...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Brooke's review of Fire Exit
5/5: “We are made of stories and if we don’t know them, the ones that make us, how can we be fully realized? How can we ever be who we are?” This was raw, the characters felt as if they could be real...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Brooke's review of Three Parts Dead (Craft Sequence, #1)
5/5: Entry into The Craft Sequence by the author of This Is How You Lose the Time War. This is so much more than Urban Fantasy. It infuses law and theology into a detailed world where necromancers are...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Brooke's review of The Fury
5/5: I love the unreliable narrator trope and thought it was very entertaining here! I enjoyed this more than The Silent Patient. This includes unlikeable characters, childhood trauma, and a private i...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Wylding Hall
A Shirley Jackson Award–winning short novel of unexpect…
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November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Behind a Locked Door
She opened the wrong door. Now her life will never be t…
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November 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Jesus was a feminist who helped the sick and poor and welcomed the stranger
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to…
A deeply irreverent and Biblically correct takedown of …
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November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Brooke's review of Usagi Yojimbo the Special Edition #2
5/5: Special editions #1 and #2 cover the first 10 years of published Usagi Yojimbo. Written, drawn, inked, and lettered by Stan Sakai. His reputation as the nicest guy in comics leaks onto this 16th ...
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September 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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#fantasy excellent storytelling, highly recommend
#historicalfantasy
Brooke's review of The Bugle Call, tome 1
5/5: I hate everything. Except the Music. Without music, the world is shit. A fresh historical fantasy with a new musical magic system, great characters, and complex political/religious world. Excell...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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#hostoricalfiction #mystery #medieval
Brooke's review of The Cup of Ghosts (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 1)
4/5: I really enjoyed this historical mystery set in the court of King Edward II of England. Narrated by his wife Isabella's head mistress, Mathilde. We get to know Isabella, daughter of Philip, and p...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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#historicalfiction
#iranianculture #persianculture #marjankamali
author of #LionWomenofTehran
Brooke's review of The Stationery Shop
4/5: A recent-historical fiction about love and loss, and how to contain grief. Young love between an Iranian couple in the midst of the political turmoil of the 70s is portrayed very sweetly. They ar...
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September 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Brooke's review of The Perfect King
4/5: Incredible detail and research! Edward III was not a perfect king, rather, for the time period he most exemplified the notion of kingship and power demonstrated through his personality. He also p...
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September 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Brooke's review of Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
5/5: More like just in time for the end of summer! I'm glad I read this entertaining romance. The characters were well-developed. The portrayal of the fmc with ptsd was very good. The author consulted...
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August 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Brooke's review of Richard the Lionheart
3/5: Son of Eleanor of Aquitane, and bringer of the 3rd Crusade into Palestine, anti-Jewish violence in his homeland, skirmishes with Saladin. A Plantagenet, responsible for murdering his brothers in ...
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July 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Brooke's review of The Book of V.
5/5: What would the king want with a little Hebrew girl? The biblical heroine Esther was brought to life on the pages I found her story more compelling than the other 2 story lines, but I loved the fr...
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July 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Brooke's review of Catherine Parr
4/5: Money can't Buy me Love The 4 husbands of poor poor Catherine Parr. Born into nobility in 1512, she lost her father when he was only 39. Her mother worked hard to secure a husband for her, even ...
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July 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM