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broonie rated Foul Heart Huntsman: 5 stars
broonie rated These Violent Delights: 4 stars
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (These Violent Delights, #1)
The brilliantly imaginative New York Times bestselling fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet set against the immersive backdrop of 1920s …
broonie rated Axiom's End: 4 stars
Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
Axiom's End is a 2020 science fiction novel by American writer Lindsay Ellis. Set in 2007, the novel is about …
broonie rated Country driving: 5 stars
Country driving by Peter Hessler
In this penetrating narrative account, Hessler investigates China's lurch into modernity as he survives the advent of the nation's uniquely …
broonie rated Unofficial Britain: 4 stars
broonie rated Day of Fallen Night: 4 stars
Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none …
broonie rated Skeleton Song: 4 stars
Skeleton Song by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #7.7)
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a …
broonie rated A Deadly Education: 4 stars
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #1)
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) …
broonie rated Novelist As a Vocation: 4 stars
broonie rated Art & fear: 4 stars
Art & fear by David Bayles, Ted Orland
This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. …
broonie rated The Last Graduate: 5 stars
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2)
Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday …
broonie rated The Golden Enclaves: 5 stars
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #3)
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. …
broonie rated A Certain Hunger: 4 stars
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
A sybaritic psychopath pens an autobiography of epicureanism and evisceration.