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The Sapphire Heiress: Historical Fantasy Romance (The Silver Order Book 1) by Ella Leon

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adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Open door, 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell

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adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

A delightful middle grade fantasy adventure with themes around overcoming pre-conceived notions about our identity and teamwork. Read by David Tennant and written by the author of the How to Train Your Dragon books. Delightful!

How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

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Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Another delightful story from the author of Iona Iverson.

How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin

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Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I LOVED How To Solve Your Own Murder, and was delighted to return to the world of Castle Knoll. This time Annie is pulled into the mysteries and fortunes of the fortune teller herself, the woman whose words shaped great aunt Frances’ life (and whose life was much more entangled with Frances’ than Annie realized.)

Love the characters that populate Castle Knoll, and especially how many have surprising stories and are better (and worse) people than they seem in the surface. I also love how the Castle Knoll mysteries contain many of the usual British village murder tropes but they still feel fresh and original. Once again an excellent mystery, well told. I’m ready for the next (and would really like to see movement in what I hope is a long burn romance between Annie and Dt. Crane.)

Super thankful to NetGalley and Penguin Dutton for an advance copy in change for my honest opinion.

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

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4.5

Fascinating. This was recommended to me as good family road trip listening, but it was not a hit with my crew (and is longer than the drive to Yellowstone and back), so I gave up. So glad I took the time to go back and finish. The chapters on whale (and elephant?!?) songs were my favorite, along with the conclusion. I was expecting there would be an ecological point about lost habitats, and the description of the global loss of darkness and silence was very moving. I was not expecting an impassioned warning about the danger of only valuing wilderness that is majestic (even now there are no national parks in the grasslands), ignoring the value of the simple and common.

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

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