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Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

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Meddling Kids is an adult homage to Scooby-Doo. Imagine Velma is a lesbian with a crush on Daphne and likes to beat up people; Daphne may or may not reciprocate Velma’s feelings and self medicates with alcohol; Fred is dead; Shaggy is in a mental institution and is either seeing his friend’s ghost or a hallucination; and Scooby-Doo is more of a Scrappy-Doo. In Meddling Kids, the four preteens, Andy, Kerri, Peter and Nate, and dog that solve mysteries call themselves the “Blyton Summer Detective Club”. In 1977, they solved their greatest, and last, mystery of the haunted Deboën Mansion and the “Sleepy Lake Creature”, which turned out to be a guy in an amphibian costume who was looking for gold supposedly hidden in the mansion.

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The Library of the Unwritten by A. J. Hackwith

The Library of the Unwritten by A. J. Hackwith

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I enjoyed reading The Library of the Unwritten, but do I think it is an amazing book that would I recommend over a lot of the other books I have read recently? No. The concept is interesting, but the characters are not original enough to make this novel really stand out. I am not saying that you would be wasting your time reading this novel, but I would not blame you if you had something else you are really excited to read instead.

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Rule of Wolves (and the Grishaverse novels) by Leigh Bardugo

Rule of Wolves (and the Grishaverse novels) by Leigh Bardugo

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I just finished reading Rules of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo and now it is time to do another all-encompassing review of a popular YA series. I am also just in time for the Shadow and Bone series that starts streaming on Netflix tomorrow, which is based on the Grishaverse novels. I am really looking forward to watching the series, even if the original Shadow and Bone trilogy is not my favourite of Bardugo’s novels. The Six of Crows duology, on the other hand, are two of my favourite YA novels and really got me invested in the Grishaverse. I also really enjoyed the King of Scars duology, which includes Rules of Wolves.

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Chain of Iron (and The Shadowhunter Chronicles) by Cassandra Clare

Chain of Iron (and The Shadowhunter Chronicles) by Cassandra Clare

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I just finished reading Chain of Iron, book two of The Last Hours, the latest trilogy in The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare. I figure it is as good as time as any to write an all-encompassing review of the many Shadowhunter books that are out there, or at least the ones I have read. If you like YA fantasy, but have somehow not read a single Shadowhunter book (there are a lot of them), or you know a teenager looking for a new book series to binge, then you may be very interested in the interconnected fantastical world that Clare has created over the span of 14 novels (that I have read so far) and several short stories and novellas.

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The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

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The Golem and the Jinni is a long read, but worth every moment I spent on it. I really enjoyed this novel! I was first interested in reading this novel when it was published in 2013, but unfortunately never got around to it at the time. Silly me! I could have had this novel in my life for so many years! If you enjoy historical fiction and are interested in supernatural creatures from other cultures, then I highly recommend you read this novel.

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The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

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The Devouring Gray isn’t a standout young adult novel, which is probably why I hadn’t heard of it until I came across it while browsing books on Book Outlet. Or maybe Herman’s publishers just didn’t do a good job of advertising it. However, I did enjoy reading this novel and became invested in the characters and the story, so if you also enjoy reading YA novels, you should give this novel a read.

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Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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The only book I had my furbaby Kika model before he passed away in May 2020 🙁

I originally wrote this review in January 2020, back when this website was still a twinkle in my eye (ahh I miss those pre-COVID days). I love, love, love this novel:

Leigh Bardugo is a bestselling YA writer known for her “Grishaverse”, an alternate universe she has created through her novels, starting with the Shadow and Bone trilogy, continuing with Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom, and more recently King of Scars, which is based on Tsarist Russia and is full of magic and the supernatural. Her books are being made into a series on Netflix (yay!), and I highly recommend them, if you are into the YA genre.

When I first heard that she wrote an adult novel, I wasn’t immediately excited. I realize that adult novels can contain magic and the supernatural, but that’s not what I think of when I think of adult novels, and I don’t read a lot of adult novels with supernatural and/or magical plots. For some reason I expected Bardugo’s “adult” novel to be completely different from her YA novels and more grounded in (our) reality. When I realized that it would, in fact, contain supernatural elements, then I became eager to read it, and I had a really hard time putting down this novel until I finished it.

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