Author: Andrea Rittschof
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Project Hail Mary: Full of Hope
When I think of science fiction, I always think of spaceships and aliens. I grew up reading science fiction so I love the traditional elements. This film has all of those elements but it has something more, it is full of hope, hope for the future and hope that we can work together to achieve…
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Green and Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons: Compelling Magic
Centuries ago, necromancy almost destroyed the world. That’s how history remembers it. History remembers it wrong. Mathaiik has trained all his life to join the sacred order of the Idallik Knights, charged with defending their world from the forces of necromancy. Only vestiges of that cursed magic remain, nothing like the fabled days of the…
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The Trident and The Pearl by Sarah K.L.Wilson: Slow Burn Romance
Queen Coralys, ruler of the Crocus Isles, kneels to no one. But when her kingdom is besieged by a terrible hurricane, killing her husband and destroying half her nation, she is forced to make a deal with the gods for salvation. But the gods have a wicked sense of justice, and they demand payment for…
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The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan: Absorbing and Compelling
In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake. Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience, he joined the hunt for the creature twenty years ago and watched it slaughter its way through a…
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Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett: Charming and Magical
Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life, and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for stray cats. Now it’s the shelter that needs a new home. And the only landlord who will rent a space to a…
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This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier: Complex and Evocative
London, 1867. Dorian Gray is the heir to a title and their family’s estate, but they’ve never been given the chance to decide whether that’s actually what they want out of life. Forcibly estranged from their father by their manipulative grandfather, Dorian feels trapped in the life that has been decided for them. Then one…
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Reminders of Him: Romantic and Emotional
I love a good romance, in a book or a movie. When I saw the trailers for Reminders of Him, it looked like the kind of film I want to see. After watching the movie, I can say that I found it romantic and emotional, full of heartbreak but also hope with great acting. Reminders…
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The President’s Cake: Heartbreaking and Fierce
The President’s Cake is a film that I wasn’t sure what to expect. It is set in Iraq in the 1990’s and during the rule of Suddam Hussein. But I was hoping for an interesting movie. Not only did I find it interesting but I also found it heartbreaking and fierce with determination, with a…
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Half City by Kate Golden: Engaging Mysteries
Viv Abbot is an average twenty-one-year-old girl. She lives in an expensive city where the rent is too high, works long hours at a thankless job, and is dating a guy she doesn’t even like in the hopes of winning her prickly mother’s approval. She also happens to be a demon hunter. Ever since her…
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Secondhand Luck by Kim Harrison: Surprising Twists
It’s been months since Petra Grady bonded with the shadow Pluck. With the help of researcher Benedict Strom, she has made a place for herself at St. Unoc University as the first weaver to use shadow magic in a thousand years. But some are not happy to acknowledge the new shadow/weaver pair, and Petra and…
