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Title: Small Town, Big Magic Author: Hazel Beck Release Date: Aug. 23, 2022 Format: Paperback Where to buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon My Rating: 4/5 Synopsis Emerson Wilde has built the life of her dreams. Youngest Chamber of Commerce president in St. Cyprian history, successful indie bookstore owner, and lucky enough…
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Title: Homicide and Halo Halo Author: Mia P. Manansala Release Date: Feb. 8, 2022 Format: Paperback Where to buy: Bookshop | Amazon My Rating: 4.25/5.0 Synopsis Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very…
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Title: Arsenic and Adobo Author: Mia P. Manansala Release Date: May 4, 2021 Format: Paperback Where to buy: Amazon | Bookshop.org My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She’s tasked…
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One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London was everything I wanted it to be and more. I was looking for a bingeable rom com, and sometimes those can be a bit mindless. One to Watch was a fantastic story that stopped me in my tracks. It made me write down all…
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Robert Jackson Bennett’s latest fantasy, Foundryside quickly became one of the best books that I read last year. As you likely already know, I am a huge fan of epic fantasy novels. What you may not know is that one of my favorite tropes is the heist plotline. Bennett created…
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I read The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson last year and am finally getting around to posting my review. I have said it many times before: murder mysteries are not my thing, but I love this series. We pick up not long after we left off in The…
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Novel: The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson| Goodreads Release Date: January 22, 2019 Format: Hardcover Get it here: Amazon Synopsis All Stevie Bell wanted was to find the key to the Ellingham mystery, but instead, she found her classmate dead. And while she solved that murder, the crimes of the past are…
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Novel: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson| Goodreads Release Date: January 16, 2018 Format: Paperback Get it here: Amazon Synopsis Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful…
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