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  • Book ReviewsFairytaleFantasyGothicRetellingSupernatural
    By Bethan Hindmarch
    October 14, 2025
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    CINDER HOUSE by Freya Marske (BOOK REVIEW)

    ‘There was something about the way the dancers inhabited their bodies and the music and the stage all at once, as if they too had a ...
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  • Book ReviewsHorrorPsychologicalRetellingThriller
    By Jonathan Thornton
    July 11, 2025
    772
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    SOUR CHERRY by Natalia Theodoridou (BOOK REVIEW)

    “He was wrong, of course, about what is natural. In her years with her husband, Eunice had come to understand a thing about nature, the one ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyNorseRetellingRomanceWitches
    By Kat Marsh
    January 17, 2025
    1460
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    THE WITCH’S HEART by Genevieve Gornichec (BOOK REVIEW)

    The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec is officially my first five star read of 2025 and I need to rave about it. I owned this book ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalMythologyRetelling
    By Nils Shukla
    June 27, 2024
    1204
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    ARTHUR by Giles Kristian (BOOK REVIEW)

    “All gone now. All of it of no more substance than a memory which may just have been a dream. Hadn’t they been fools to think ...
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  • Book ReviewsFairytaleFantasyFolkRetelling
    By Kat Marsh
    June 7, 2024
    1521
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    WHEN AMONG CROWS by Veronica Roth (BOOK REVIEW)

    When Among Crows by Veronica Roth is an eerie, enchanting novella set in modern day Chicago, following the lives of three very different individuals: Dymitr, Ala, ...
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  • Book ReviewsCourtFantasyHistoricalRetelling
    By Bethan Hindmarch
    May 2, 2024
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    MORGAN IS MY NAME by Sophie Keetch (BOOK REVIEW)

    ‘And God strike me down if it weren’t true. There it was, waves crashing at the window, coming to claim us all. I ran to see, ...
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  • Book ReviewsCourtFairytaleFantasyRetelling
    By Lucy Nield
    April 9, 2024
    1234
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    THIEF LIAR LADY by D. L. Soria (BOOK REVIEW)

    ‘Truth is what we make it to be’ D. L. SORIA is the author of Thief Liar Lady, Iron Cast, Beneath the Citadel, and Fire with Fire. She lives with ...
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  • Book ReviewsBuddy ReadFantasyHistoricalMythologyRetelling
    By Bethan Hindmarch
    August 24, 2023
    1920
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    HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS by Claire North (BUDDY READ BOOK REVIEW)

    Beth and Nils return to Claire North’s Greek isles in House of Odysseus, the sequel to Ithaca. We’ve done our very best to avoid major spoilers, ...
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  • Book ReviewsFairytaleFantasyFeaturesRetellingWomen In SFF
    By Bethan Hindmarch
    July 28, 2023
    2421
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    THORNHEDGE by T. Kingfisher (BOOK REVIEW)

    Well. A lot of you have been telling me for a long time how fantastic T. Kingfisher is and yes, I concede, you were all right ...
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  • Book ReviewsFairytaleFantasyRetellingWeird
    By Jonathan Thornton
    April 21, 2023
    1931
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    WHITE CAT, BLACK DOG by Kelly Link (BOOK REVIEW)

    “We all want things it would be better not to want,” the cat says. “We pursue them anyway, don’t we?” Kelly Link’s uniquely wonderful and unusual ...
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