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ARC AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: Saint by Adrienne Young

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  Publication Date:  November 29, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   YA Fantasy Narrators:  Ell Potter, Will Damron Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Length:  9 hours 39 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis As a boy, Elias learned the hard way what happens when you don’t heed the old tales. Nine years after his lack of superstition got his father killed, he’s grown into a young man of piety, with a deep reverence for the hallowed sea and her fickle favor. As stories of the fisherman’s son who has managed to escape the most deadly of storms spreads from port to port, his devotion to the myths and creeds has given him the reputation of the luckiest bastard to sail the Narrows. Now, he’s mere days away from getting everything his father ever dreamed ...

BOOK REVIEW: Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham

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  Publication Date:  September 1, 2021 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Horror Publisher:  Credo House Publishers Length: 288  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction...especially on Addington Isle.  Winterset Hollow  follows a group of friends to the place that inspired their favorite book - a timeless tale about a tribe of animals preparing for their yearly end-of-summer festival. But after a series of shocking discoveries, they ...

(9) Of Bees and Mist

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Title:   Of Bees and Mist: A Novel by Erick Setiawan Publisher: Simon & Schuster 404 Page Genre: Fiction Synopsis:  Raised in a sepulchral house where ghosts dwell in mirrors, Meridia grows up lonely and miserable. But at age sixteen, she has a chance at happiness when she falls in love with Daniel-a caring and naive young man. Soon they marry, and Meridia can finally escape to live with her husband's family, unaware that they harbor dark secrets of their own. There is a grave hidden in the garden, there are two sisters groomed from birth to despise each other, and there is Eva-the formidable matriarch and the wickedest mother-in-law imaginable-whose grievances swarm the air in an army of bees. As Meridia struggles to keep her life and marriage together, she discovers long-buried secrets about her own past as well as shocking truths about her new family that inexorably push her love, courage, and sanity to the brink. Of Bees and Mist  chronicles three genera...