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Book Review: Summer Skin [The Trusty Bookmark]

Book Review: Summer Skin – Kirsty Eagar

Authentic characters, relationships, and a spot-on depiction of college life, but I couldn’t root for the relationship that drives the plot of this book.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged With: 3 Stars, contemporary, romance

Book Review: Sky in the Deep [The Trusty Bookmark]

Book Review: Sky in the Deep – Adrienne Young

Every action scene was vicious, violent, and everything you could want in a Viking story. And I do love a good romance! But there was just so. much. crying.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fantasy Tagged With: 3 Stars, Fierce Female Leads™, romance

Book Review: Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda [The Trusty Bookmark]

Book Review: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli

Utterly delightful. Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda is a strong character-driven novel of one boy’s struggles as he deals with all life can throw at him.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged With: 4 Stars, romance, YA

Book Review: Can You Keep A Secret? [The Trusty Bookmark]

Book Review: Can You Keep A Secret? – Sophie Kinsella

Perfect dialogue and delivery, a roller coaster of emotion, and fantastic characters with distinct personalities and behaviors. What more can you ask for?

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Romance / Chick Lit Tagged With: 5 Stars, romance

Book Review: The Prince and the Dressmaker [The Trusty Bookmark]

Book Review: The Prince and the Dressmaker – Jen Wang

Quick, adorable, emotional, charming — this was such an easy-to-rate 5 stars. Beautiful artwork for an innocent story of finding oneself in the world.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged With: 5 Stars, graphic novel, historical fiction, romance, YA

Book Review: Love & Gelato [The Trusty Bookmark]

Book Review: Love & Gelato – Jenna Evans Welch

For an authentic depiction of the emotional turmoil following a family death and how life inevitably goes on, Love & Gelato is a bit of sunshine and hope.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged With: 4 Stars, romance, YA

Book Review: Windwitch [The Trusty Bookmark]

Book Review: Windwitch – Susan Dennard

A mash-up of addictively well-paced storylines, Windwitch entertains through the last page. This series is turning out to be one of my all-time-favorites.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fantasy Tagged With: 5 Stars, Fierce Female Leads™, magic, romance

Book Review: 99 Percent Mine [The Trusty Bookmark]

Book Review: 99 Percent Mine – Sally Thorne

All-in-all, an addictive read where you rooted for every single character’s happiness (but mostly for Darcy and Tom to finally make out already, my god).

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Romance / Chick Lit Tagged With: 3 Stars, romance

Book Review: The Queen's Rising [The Trusty Bookmark]

Book Review: The Queen’s Rising – Rebecca Ross

Please force your way through Part One, because Part Two+ was so much better. The latter is filled with action-packed scenes and I could not put this down.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fantasy Tagged With: 3 Stars, Fierce Female Leads™, romance

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