Category: Magical Realism
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Review: THIS BODY’S NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US by Edgar Cantero
Thank you so much to Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: In a dingy office in Fisherman’s Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears the names of A. Kimrean and Z. Kimrean. Private Eyes. Behind the door there is only one desk, one chair, one…
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Review: THE PISCES by Melissa Broder
Thank you so much to Crown Publishing and Hogarth Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles…
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Review: WHAT SHOULD BE WILD by Julia Fine
Thank you so much Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Cursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in her family’s manor at the edge of a…
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Review: THE LIGHT OVER BROKEN TIDE by Holly Ducarte
Thank you so much to the author for my ecopy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Out of the blue, Rebecca Stafford’s Father arrives to parent her after years of absence. He then extracts her last bit of normalcy by moving them to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The shocking news plunges Rebecca into a…
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Book Mail: WHAT SHOULD BE WILD by Julia Fine
Thank you so much to Harper Books for sending me this gorgeous advance copy! Synopsis: In this darkly funny, striking debut, a highly unusual young woman must venture into the woods at the edge of her home to remove a curse that has plagued the women in her family for millennia—an utterly original novel with…
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Book Mail: THE PAST IS NEVER by Tiffany Quay Tyson
Thank you so much Skyhorse Publishing for sending this free copy my way! It sounds amazing and I cannot wait to read it! SYNOPSIS: A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, magical realism, and the search for a missing child. Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to…
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Gorgeous Book Mail: PROPERTY by Lionel Shriver and WHAT SHOULD BE WILD by Julia Fine
Don’t you just love it when your glasses match your books?!! Thank you so much to Harper Books for these gorgeous free copies! They both look outstanding! I will leave the synopses below. PROPERTY by Lionel Shriver: Intermingling settings in America and Britain, Lionel Shriver’s first collection explores property in both senses of the word:…
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Review: DREADFUL YOUNG LADIES AND OTHER STORIES by Kelly Barnhill
Thank you so much to Algonquin Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: When Mrs. Sorensen’s husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch.” In “Open the Door and the Light Pours Through,” a young man wrestles with grief…
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Review: BEASTS OF EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE by Ruth Emmie Lang
Summary: Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. That tornado was the first of many strange events that…
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SOME EPIC BOOK MAIL!
Would you look at these GORGEOUS books?!! Thank you so much to Lauren from Little, Brown and Company for these free copies. I am so excited to read these! Check out these book descriptions: THE WONDER by Emma Donoghue – In the latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room, an English nurse brought to…