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Alexandra’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alexandra’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alexandra Almond
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Thoroughly Disenchanted
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Diversions - Lights: 2024 Romance Writers of Australia Short Story Anthology
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| Lots to like about this sweet Christmas fake dating romance, but for some reason it didn't hit me in the feels. ...more | |
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Zhu takes on her brother’s name and destiny in this epic fantasy re-imagining of the rise to power of founder of the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century. It’s pretty amazing and also emotionally draining; Zhu goes through A LOT. She’s ruthless in her pu ...more |
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Everyone said this was even better than Curse of the Chalion, and everyone was right. Ista was married to the country's ruler 20 years ago, killed her husband's lover while failing to break the family curse and has been withdrawn from the world—consi ...more |
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| A warm hug of a book. Very slow burn, with the awfulness of the outside world (New York 1968: Vietnam, MLK, race riots) contrasted by the people inside Dooryard Books caring for each other as they go about their daily lives. I would have liked more c ...more | |
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| The reviews for this seem to land on either "best thing ever written" or "I really didn't understand this". Sadly, I'm leaning closer to the latter. It's beautiful and evocative, but not easy to follow narratively; I had to go back and read the blurb ...more | |
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Update 12 Nov: re-read because of the sequel. It's more meandering than I remember. * * * A fun sapphic regency comedy, set in a world where magic exists. I enjoyed the heroine Maelys and her best friends Caesar and Lizzie; the love interest Lady Geo ...more |
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| I liked it more than the first in the series, but it still missed the mark for me in a couple of areas. Puck as the narrator is not always successful; he has a few delightful moments, but other parts are skim-worthy. The bits where he flicks between ...more | |
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Update 12 Nov: re-read because of the sequel. It's more meandering than I remember. * * * A fun sapphic regency comedy, set in a world where magic exists. I enjoyed the heroine Maelys and her best friends Caesar and Lizzie; the love interest Lady Geo ...more |
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| Just lovely. Lill (trained assassin) contracts an arranged marriage with Vanu (war hero), because it's the only way he can get into the fortress to kill him, but they fall in love instead. It's everything you expect from an AJ Demas novel; strong cha ...more | |
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| This is great; intriguing plot and lead characters who are decent people that have some pretty horrible things happen to them. I'd been thinking that old-school fantasy might not be my thing any more, but maybe I've just been reading the wrong books. ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Romance Readers R...: 2025 Other Worlds Challenge (sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal romance) | 7 | 17 | Dec 26, 2024 06:36AM | |
| Turn of a Page: Sally906's Disney Musicals (COMPLETE!) | 88 | 18 | Mar 09, 2025 08:10AM | |
| Turn of a Page: Sally906's Disney Celebration-Complete | 483 | 54 | Apr 16, 2025 09:03AM | |
| A Million More Pages: * Magical Realism | 16 | 21 | May 24, 2025 02:34PM | |
The Procrastinato...:
June Readathon (June 14-23)
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17 | 71 | Jun 17, 2025 01:17AM | |
| Aussie Readers: Quarterly Read-a-thon Friday 13th - Sunday 15th June 2025 | 140 | 44 | Jun 17, 2025 02:38AM | |
| Wanderlust Challe...: Let's Spell Africa! | 228 | 87 | Jun 27, 2025 07:59AM |
