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Pump Six and Other Stories
Paolo Bacigalupi
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reviewed: Silent in the Grave
This series was recommended ever so thoroughly to me, as it seems to be absolutely my thing (England, lady mystery-solver, hi...
Silent in the Grave - Deanna Raybourn
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reviewed: Seating Arrangements
Rarely have I been so enthused to read about wretched people being awful to each other. Shipstead does a remarkable job makin...
Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead
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reviewed: French Milk
Fine, but not what I was expecting, and I'm having a hard time separating what I was expecting from what I got. I went in exp...
French Milk - Lucy Knisley
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reviewed: Fool Me Twice
Not near enough grovel.
Fool Me Twice - Meredith Duran
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reviewed: Murder in Montparnasse
A paen to food and France, now with bonus respectful threesome negotiations. I remain a fan.
Murder in Montparnasse - Kerry Greenwood
reviewed: Away With the Fairies
Well, speak of the devil. This is totally Phryne's Murder Must Advertise, if only Harriet Vane had been kidnapped by pirates ...
Away With the Fairies - Kerry Greenwood
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reviewed: Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10)
Thoroughly enjoyable little academia-set mystery, but it turns out my ability to give a shit about Cricket Games In Posh-Set ...
Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10) - Kerry Greenwood
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reviewed: The Skull and the Nightingale: A Novel
Blar. I'm tired of protagonists being all rapey in the guise of being "edgy." If I'm going to read about an amoral, detached ...
The Skull and the Nightingale: A Novel - Michael Irwin
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reviewed: The Fairy Godmother
If TV Tropes and the [Color] Fairy books had a romance novel for a baby and dressed it in nothing but Lisa Frank-designed one...
The Fairy Godmother - Mercedes Lackey
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reviewed: Untamed
The crossdressing genderqueerish rake hero with painful secrets and an army of dandies and the awkward butchish heroine with ...
Untamed - Anna  Cowan
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reviewed: A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent
In the Grand Scheme of Dragon-y Books, this one is, like, the polar opposite of the Pern novels. Yes, the dragons are awesome...
A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent - Marie Brennan
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reviewed: Asylum
Four stars for genuinely creepy, well done atmosphere. Minus one star for relying so heavily on photographs (photo montages, ...
Asylum - Madeleine Roux
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reviewed: Mark of the Lion
If I could, I would rate the descriptions of East Africa at least 3 stars, all the rest a grudging 2 stars. I wanted so much ...
Mark of the Lion - Suzanne Arruda
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reviewed: The Bone Season
Interesting world building, hampered by a bog-standard Nonsensically Reckless Urban Fantasy Heroine and her Mysterious/Danger...
The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon
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reviewed: Speedboat
I...suspect I am moving past my experimental structure novel days. There are moments of twisting beauty in the words, and I a...
Speedboat - Renata Adler
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