Category: Rhea Reviews Books
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The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre by Darcy Ash: Complex and Healing
Prince Fierre has three big problems. He’s suffering from a mystery illness. He’s surrounded by lords who expect personal favours. And worst of all, he’s in love with his best friend, Aiven, a former farm boy and studious enforcer of rules, now right-hand to the prince. Can Fierre heal himself, deal with the noblemen snapping…
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Those Fatal Flowers by Shannon Ives: Lyrical and Nuanced
Before, Scopuli. It has been centuries since Thelia made the mistake that cost her the woman she loved—Proserpina, the goddess of spring. As the handmaidens charged with protecting Proserpina when she was kidnapped, Thelia and her sisters are banished to the island of Scopuli and cursed to live as sirens—winged half-woman, half-bird creatures. In luring…
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix: Stunning and Powerful
There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget…
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Risen Apes by Vana Elaire: Philosophical and Gothic
Damianos Eaton and Rickter Han couldn’t be more different. One survived a harrowing near-death experience that left him with questions too big for this world. The other, a cynical supermodel, battles the nightly curse of relentless sleep paralysis. Yet fate—or something darker—draws them both to Vale Academy, a secluded arcane institution that promises to reveal…
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The Haunting Between Us by Paul Michael Winters: Spooky and Riveting
Cameron can’t believe the boy of his dreams just moved into the house of his nightmares. Sixteen-year-old Cameron Walsh dreads the haunted Victorian mansion across the street, where the ghost of the White Lady roams the halls. When he sees her through the bay window, his ghost-hunting friend Abby wants to investigate. But then the…
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This is Not a Vampire Story by Simon Doyle: Beautiful and Intense
Seventeen-year-old Victor Callahan holds a secret as ancient as the shadows. Employed as a night porter in a quiet Irish nursing home, the teenager watches over a group of men he once knew a long time ago. Victor has orchestrated their reunion for a final farewell, a goodbye to those whose lives have shaped him…
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Mother of Rome by Lauren J. A. Bear: Riveting Reimagining
The names Romulus and Remus may be immortalized in map and stone and chronicle, but their mother exists only as a preface to her sons’ journey, the princess turned oath-breaking priestess, condemned to death alongside her children. But she did not die; she survived. And so does her story. Beautiful, royal, rich: Rhea has it…
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Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire: Poignant and Immersive
Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her. Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she’d been missing from birth. It was cumbersome; it…
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The Trials of Ilderwood: Cinders in the Snow by S.C. Selvyn: Dark and Intriguing
Ten-year-old Dasia is the unwilling guardian of a chilling family secret—one that fills her house with a strange blue snow. Locked behind a frost-covered door in her room is a threat so dangerous, Dasia can never stray far from home. But when her long-lost brother returns one fateful night and promises her freedom inside the…
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Twisted Loyalties by Barbara J. Webb: Visceral and Intriguing
Korin has found a new home and new friends, and the past seems safely behind him. But there are reasons Teriad never stayed in one place. Korin never wanted the attention of other wizards, and he certainly doesn’t want any part in wizard politics, but he may not have a choice as people in the…
