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Morgan Rice’s A March of Kings

Posted on August 9, 2020 by nwilson

[Spoilers!] I’m over Morgan Rice. I mistakenly bought the third in this “Bestselling Series,” on audible, thus learning two things: 1) a lot of people know noth...

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Morgan Rice’s A Quest of Heroes.

Posted on August 3, 2020 by nwilson

[Spoilers!] Don’t waste your time with Morgan Rice, a self-publishing, self-promoting fraud. I bought this book based on the many high internet reviews. T...

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Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale.

Posted on July 31, 2020 by nwilson

[Spoilers!]This book was great. It passes the Bechdel Test, with some strong female characters who regularly interact, and the female protagonist makes friends ...

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Mercedes Lackey’s Hunter

Posted on July 28, 2020 by nwilson

[Spoilers!] The haters are just plain wrong. Yes, the book is post-Hunger Games and Divergent–it’s also post-Maze Runner, but I guess that doesnR...

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Nicole Taylor’s The Witch Hunter

Posted on July 25, 2020 by nwilson

[Spoilers!] This book was just horrible. First off, I was constantly double checking as it read like a book late in a series–it just jumped right in to re...

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Julie Kagawa’s Talon

Posted on July 22, 2020 by nwilson

I can suspend disbelief about Dragons that a) exist and b) can shift into human form, that c) some of them are just like us and d) despite completely different ...

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