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Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Posted on March 14, 2025March 12, 2025 by Jami Fairleigh

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: Ballantine Books (2009) 301 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and...Read More

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Book Review: Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Jami Fairleigh

Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic: Old Man in the CrossWalk Productions (2013) 264 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have...Read More

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Book Review: Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Jami Fairleigh

Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young Spells for Forgetting: Delacorte Press (2022) 368 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt,...Read More

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Book Review: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

Posted on December 27, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong The Teller of Small Fortunes: Ace Books (2024) 336 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She...Read More

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Book Review: Electric Trees by Melissa Bobe

Posted on December 20, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh

Electric Trees by Melissa Bobe Electric Trees: The Hive Press (2021) 288 Pages Amazon | not available at Bookshop.org Book Description This book has monsters and murders, elephants and polar bears and wolves, of a kind. It has crappy jobs...Read More

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Book Review: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Posted on November 8, 2024November 6, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet: Vintage (2020) 320 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of...Read More

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Book Review: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende The Neverending Story as translated by Ralph Manheim: Doubleday (1983) 377 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of...Read More

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Book Review: The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

Posted on March 29, 2024March 26, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart The Crystal Cave: Hodder & Stoughton (1970) 494 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description Born the bastard son of a Welsh princess, Myridden Emrys — or as he would later be known, Merlin —...Read More

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Book Review: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair: Viking Penguin (2002) 374 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description England (circa 1985) is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging...Read More

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Book Review: Story Genius by Lisa Cron

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Jami Fairleigh

Story Genius by Lisa Cron Story Genius: Ten Speed Press (2016) 267 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description It's every novelist's greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story...Read More

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Book Review: The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Jami Fairleigh

The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale The Toymakers: Del Ray (2018) 468 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description It is 1917, and while war wages across Europe, in the heart of London, there is a place of hope and enchantment. The...Read More

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Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Jami Fairleigh

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Thirteenth Tale: Washington Square Press (2006) 406 Pages Amazon | Bookshop.org Book Description Reclusive author Vida Winter has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old...Read More