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ARC Review – Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
Running away from her failed marriage and the tragedy that caused it, Laurel leaves her job in academic mycology to work as a dishwasher at the isolated McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica.Looming over the station is a beautiful anomaly called the Arc which appeared recently out of nowhere and seems to defy physics. When Laurel’s…
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ARC Review – Blacktail by Scott Hawkins
A lone wolf, Blacktail’s life is forever changed when he falls in love with a pet dog who soon dies at her owners’ hands. After taking his vengeance and going on the run to escape the humans hunting him, a mysteriously powerful feline witch sends him on a quest to wake the Forest God, whose…
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ARC Review – She Haunts Me Still by De Elizabeth
After her mother’s tragic and violent death, Mallory was left with a broken heart and a lot of questions. As a freshman theater major at her mother’s alma mater, for the first time she has the chance to search for answers. After getting the lead role in the department’s production of Romeo & Juliet, Mallory…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 7/27/26-8/2/26
August is upon us! I read five books this week and I would say it was a pretty solid week overall, mostly just good with one real standout. I mostly stuck to the plan I laid out at the end of last week’s roundup with the exception of one book. We have one audiobook, one…
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ARC Review – The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims
In a sweltering train car in the London Underground during the hottest summer on record, five strangers witness…something. They can’t remember it, but soon each of them find themselves stalked by pale creature that leaves them paralyzed in its proximity. Terrified, the strangers reconnect and piece out what happened, working together to escape the creature…
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ARC Review – The Salt King by Natasha Pulley
At age sixteen, Avelyn fled his small isolated hometown of Hreodwater—home to a salt mine and a culture that lives, breathes, and speaks the mythology of their Salt King—and ran off to become a Jesuit priest at the Vatican in desperate search of guidance and the nurturing embrace of the God he left behind. Twelve…
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ARC Review – You’ll Love it Here by Natalie Sue
After one bitter comment to the wrong person, Mona is forced to take a leave of absence, and she feels the precarious life she’s spent years building up crumbling around her. Unfortunately, her apartment building is literally crumbling around her. After her landlady falls and hurts herself, Mona agrees to watch over the building and…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 7/20/26-7/26/26
I hope everyone’s summer is going well! Another week has passed. I read four books this week but two of them were pretty long and I wasn’t doing much audiobook listening. This was actually a pretty good week—I really enjoyed three out of the four books. Shockingly, I actually stuck to the books I said…
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ARC Review – Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty
After being hit by a car, a series of events leads to Anna, a single mother, getting a job at the Time Travel Agency. Despite the name, the place is a cozy hole in the wall with few customers and a small staff led by an eccentric disgraced physicist. Anna is sure that it’s all…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 7/12/26-7/19/26
I’ll be doing weekly updates with quick thoughts on what I read, particularly for books that don’t warrant a full scale review. If I have written a full review, it will be linked. Not a particularly outstanding or terrible week. My Lady Jane and A Prince Among Pirates were both audiobooks and were pretty fun,…
