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AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: Shadow & Bone (book #1)by Leigh Bardugo

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  Publication Date:  November 30, 2012 Format:  Audio Genre:   YA Fantasy Narrators:  Lauren Fortgang Publisher:  Audible Studios         Length:  9 hours 21 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.  Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves her life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched...

BOOK REVIEW: Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo

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Publication Date:  October 8, 2019 Publisher:  Flat Iron Books  Format:  ebook Pages:   476 Genre:  Occult Horror Fantasy  Buy:   Kindle  | Audio Synopsis: Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are t...