Tag: Magical Realism
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The Cartographers
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 by Peng Shepard – Nell Young was born to be a Cartographer. Maps were in her blood. Her parents were cartographers, and she honored her mother’s legacy while following in her father’s footsteps with a coveted internship at the NY Public Library – until she attempted to analyze an old gas…
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The Lost Bookshop
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice: 🌶️ by Evie Woods – This is the story of lives changed by books. In the 1940s, Opaline escapes an arranged marriage and finds refuge at bookstores in Paris and Ireland as she continues to evade her overbearing older brother. In the present day, Martha is starting over, running from…
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The Husbands
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Spice: 🌶️ by Holly Gramazio (April 2, 2024) Many thanks to @PRHaudio for the gifted advance copy, here’s my honest review… This book is such a wild ride! It takes you from funny to heartbreaking to thought-provoking. I love a good magical realism book, but I’ve always thought that if I…
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Expiration Dates
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice: 🌶️ by Rebecca Serle (March 19, 2024) – Many thanks to @atriabooks and @netgalley for the opportunity to review this fun book. Below is my honest review. Some of my favorite books of the last few years have been romances with a splash of magical realism, and I think they are becoming…
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Happy Medium
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice: 🌶️🌶️ by Sarah Adler Mountains of thanks to @berkleyromance for the gifted advanced copy. Considering Mrs. Nash’s Ashes was one of my top books of 2023, to say I was THRILLED to read Adler’s new book is a massive understatement – and it didn’t disappoint! Gretchen doesn’t believe in ghosts, which is…
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Switched
Book: 🌟🌟🌟💫 Spice: 🌶️ by Sarah Ready: This was a quirky, funny, nerdy rom-com about two physicists who switch bodies due to an incident in the laboratory and how they develop a deeper appreciation for each other by having to (literally) walk in each other’s shoes. Serena is a cooky free-spirited, sci-fi-loving, coffee-drinking vegetarian Californian who…
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