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Review: Burn Bright, Marianne de Pierres

This review is part of the Discover Aussie Fantasy feature, running during July on The Oaken Bookcase. You can find details of the feature and enter the giveaway on the Aussie Fantasy page! Burn Bright (Goodreads) Author:  Marianne de Pierres (website) Follow @mdepierres Rating: In Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. […]
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Posted on July 15, 2013
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Review: Mudlark, Chris Matthews

This review is part of the Discover Aussie Fantasy feature, running during July on The Oaken Bookcase. You can find details of the feature and enter the giveaway on the Aussie Fantasy page! Mudlark (Goodreads) Author:  Chris Matthews (website) Follow @larksong4 Rating: On the outskirts of the city, a young orphan boy, Lark, is forced to scavenge […]
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Posted on July 11, 2013
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Review: Blind Sight, Ermisenda Alvarez

This post is part of the Blind Sight Blog Tour. Blind Sight is an urban fantasy novel written in two volumes, each telling the story through a different character’s perspective. It is also part of the Discover Aussie Fantasy feature, running during July on The Oaken Bookcase. You can find details of the feature and enter the […]
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Posted on July 4, 2013
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Review: Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness

Shadow of Night (Goodreads) Author:  Deborah Harkness (website) Follow @debharkness Rating: Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, and long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library,she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew. Now the fragile […]
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Posted on June 12, 2013
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Review: The River of No Return, Bee Ridgway

The River of No Return (Goodreads) Author:  Bee Ridgway (website) Follow @beeridgway Rating: 1812: On a lonely battlefield in Spain, Lord Nicholas Falcott, Marquess of Blackdown, is about to die… But, the next moment, he inexplicably jumps forward in time, nearly two hundred years – very much alive. Taken under the wing of a mysterious organisation, The […]
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Posted on May 20, 2013
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Review: Soul of Kandrith, Nicole Luiken

Title: Soul of Kandrith (Goodreads) Author:   Nicole Luiken (@NicoleLuiken) Rating: Lance is a healer and wielder of slave magic, a power that demands sacrifice. He gave up his health to gain the ability to heal others, but he’s powerless to cure his beloved Sara, who sacrificed her soul to save Lance and all of Kandrith. Returning her […]
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Posted on March 27, 2013
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Review: The Wild Girl, Kate Forsyth

Title: The Wild Girl (Goodreads) Author:  Kate Forsyth (website) Rating: Dortchen Wild fell in love with Wilhelm Grimm the first time she saw him. Growing up in the small German kingdom of Hessen-Cassel in early Nineteenth century, Dortchen Wild is irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the young and handsome fairy tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm.  It […]
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Posted on March 18, 2013
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Review: The Cypher, Julian Rosado-Machain

Welcome to The Oaken Bookcase’s stop on The Guardians Inc. blog tour! Here’s my review and an excerpt from The Cypher, as well as the opportunity to win a $75 Amazon gift card! You can find the giveaway form plus links to the other blogs participating at the bottom of the post. The Cypher e-book is […]
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Posted on February 18, 2013
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Review: Scarlet, Marissa Meyer

Title: Scarlet (Goodreads) Author:  Marissa Meyer (Website) (Twitter) Rating: Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know […]
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Posted on February 14, 2013
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Review: Bitter Greens, Kate Forsyth

Title: Bitter Greens (Goodreads) Author:  Kate Forsyth (website) Rating: Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from court by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. She is comforted by an old nun, Sœur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by […]
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Posted on February 11, 2013
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