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Review: Winter Be My Shield, Jo Spurrier

Welcome to the first review in The Oaken Bookcase’s Discover Australian Fantasy month! You can find more information about the feature and links to other reviews on the Aussie Fantasy page. Title: Winter Be My Shield (Goodreads) Author:  Jo Spurrier Rating: Sierra has a despised and forbidden gift — she raises power from the suffering […]
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Posted on July 2, 2012
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Review: The Oracle, K.B. Hoyle

Title: The Oracle (Goodreads) Author:  K.B. Hoyle (@kbhoyle_author) Rating: It is the summer before freshman year and Darcy and her five friends have come back to Cedar Cove Family Camp and Alitheia. This return is bittersweet because her elusive purpose in the magical realm continues to evade her. Egged on by Tellius, the boy prince she is prophesied […]
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Posted on June 15, 2012
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Review: Exiled, JR Wagner

Title: Exiled (Goodreads) Author:  J.R. Wagner (@JRWagner2) Rating: James has known magic since just after he was born. As a sorcerer, his skills are exceptional yet when he wakes in The Never, his abilities are gone. Armed with nothing but determination and the will to survive, he braves a land wrought with dangers, mysteries and temptations meant to ensnare […]
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Posted on June 5, 2012
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Review: The Six, K.B. Hoyle

Title: The Six (Goodreads) Author:  K.B. Hoyle (@kbhoyle_author) Rating: Darcy Pennington hates her life. She is an insufferably average teenager with no real friends, crushing social anxiety, and an indescribable sense of not fitting in anywhere. A change in her dad’s job forces her to attend Cedar Cove Family Camp the summer before her eighth-grade year, and Darcy once […]
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Posted on May 15, 2012
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Guest Review: Frozen Prospects, Dean Murray

This review is a guest post by the lovely Anya of About The Story! Welcome Anya!   Title: Frozen Prospects (Goodreads) Author: Dean Murray Rating: – Really great story, minor flaws Frozen Prospects by Dean Murray is a sci-fi/fantasy hybrid about a boy in another world orphaned and alone until his latent potential is discovered by a family […]
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Posted on May 1, 2012
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Review: The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

Title: The Night Circus (Goodreads) Author:   Erin Morgenstern (@erinmorgenstern) Rating: The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons […]
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Posted on March 29, 2012
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