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The Secret Commonwealth

This book turned out to be a bit of a mixed bag for me. While I thoroughly loved His Dark Materials, I’d be lying if I said that this series isn’t starting with a couple of problems. I’m not going to talk about the overall arching story, as it’s not completed yet, nor will I talk about La Belle Sauvage because this review is about The Secret...

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The Girl and the Stars

The Girl and the Stars is the first Book of the Ice series by international bestselling author Mark Lawrence. It has an amazing cover showing the protagonist Yaz against a cold background in the ice cavern with the stars. A slightly closer look may reveal the city which she visits later on in the story; there are some tall structures that...

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Kushiel’s Dart

Kushiel’s Dart is a rags to riches High Fantasy story about a young girl cast aside by her parents and sold into the services of Naamah to be raised in a church that raises people to become prostitutes, where she is later taken in by a well respected former court bard where she learns to navigate high society in the Kingdom of Terre d’Ange....

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Holy Sister

Holy Sister is the final installment in The Book of the Ancestor trilogy by Mark Lawrence and follows Nona on her journeys. As tentacles rise from graves and pain spiders come with other creatures from the soft men, antagonistic armies are on their way to attack the empire. With this Sherzal continues her unending quest for the remaining...

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