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The Midnight Feast By: Lucy Foley
Opening night for an historic mansion, turned luxury hotel is the perfect place for a reckoning. Multiple POVs weave together a twisting story leading up to the summer solstice party. Secrets are threatened to be revealed, in this latest thriller by Lucy Foley. The plan has been set, but by who and will it go…
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One By One By: Freida McFadden
A group of friends plan a relaxing vacation in a secluded inn. On the way there, the mini van breaks down and they decide to walk the ‘short distance’ through the woods to the inn to get help. Then they are lost. Lost and one by one people in their group start disappearing. Who is…
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The Sunflower House By: Adriana Allegri
Handmaid’s Tale meets WWII Hitler’s Germany in this story about finding the truth, surviving and trying to save as many children as possible along the way. Family secrets come out when a daughter discovers a box in her mother’s closet. The truth of her parentage and what her parents did to keep her safe is…
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The Lost Story By: Meg Shaffer
Inspired by C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, two boys who society would never expect to be friends get ‘lost’ in the woods together. After being miraculously found, no one knows how they survived, why they came back or where they were while they were missing. I was excited to read another Meg Shaffer book after…
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Ninth House By: Leigh Bardugo
Welcome to New Haven – a place riddled with grays (ghosts) and magic galore. Instead of frat houses, we have magic houses. Instead of basements filled with beer pong, we have tombs and rituals. (Just kidding, beer pong is there too.) Alex is scooped out of her dejecting life and given the oppurtunity to join…
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The Violence By: Delilah Dawson
Following three abused women in unprecedented times as they attempt to escape their abusers and survive. Let’s start off with, I was not expecting that. I again, didn’t read anything about this book in advance before picking it up and was pleasantly surprised. The author’s note in the beginning felt odd. I can see it…
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches By: Sangu Bandanna
A “serious” story about the very secret society of witches and one witch who needs to decide to follow the rules or follow her heart. To get this out there right in the beginning of this review, this book didn’t do it for me. It didn’t give me the feels and I never connected with…
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