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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I am a huge Jane Austen fan, which meant I went into Jane Austen’s The Watsons with very mixed feelings. Of course I wanted to read a completed version of one of her unfinished novels. I also knew that attempting to finish Jane Austen’s work requires a level of confidence normally reserved for people who climb…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I need to begin this review with an important distinction: I am giving The Heart Trials four stars as a young adult fantasy. Is this going to completely reinvent the genre for someone who has spent years reading enormous fantasy books with twelve kingdoms, six magic systems and a glossary longer than the average novella? Probably…

⭐️⭐️⭐️ On paper, Hallowed Bones contains an impressive number of things I am almost guaranteed to enjoy: Salem, witches, a haunted college, secret societies, cursed families, morally questionable men and a heroine who has no idea why everyone around her is acting so suspicious. Unfortunately, having all the correct ingredients did not automatically turn this into a…

⭐️⭐️⭐️ An archaeologist racing to recover the stolen Maya artifact her entire dissertation depends on—with a handsome fellow grad student and a possible antiquities heist involved—sounded extremely promising. The archaeology was easily the best part. It felt well researched, the academic setting was refreshingly different, and I genuinely learned things without feeling like I had…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have read quite a few Katee Robert books, so I thought I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting into with The Tarot Trials. Instead, this ended up feeling noticeably different from most of her other work. The fantasy plot is not just background scenery for the romance. It is the…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I finished Sinister, closed the book, and immediately stared into the distance like I had just been given deeply upsetting information about my own life. My first coherent thought was: What the actual fuck just happened? Sinister is a dark gothic romance set in Radcliffe, a wealthy town where the families are powerful, the students are beautiful,…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alchemy of Souls gave me a magic university, a deeply unfair social system, a powerful ancient key, fake dating, forced roommates and two teenagers who accidentally become magically connected during the most important exam of their lives. In other words, it emptied the entire YA fantasy trope cabinet onto the table, and I was perfectly…