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Review: After Life by Gayle Forman

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Andrew Phillips

AFTER LIFE, Gayle Forman, Quill Tree Books (Harper Collins), ISBN 978-0-0633-4614-7, January 2025, $19.99, 272pp. After Life is a fine example of my long-held belief that one is never too old for a “Young Adult” book. The story begins with … Continue reading →

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Review: MEET ME AT BLUE HOUR, Sarah Suk

Posted on December 12, 2024 by starcatbooks

MEET ME AT BLUE HOUR, by Sarah Suk. Quill Tree Books (HarperCollins), trade paperback, 288pp. Price $19.99. Pub date: April 1, 2025. This young adult book (13 and up) is set primarily in South Korea, centered around one of the … Continue reading →

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Review: Such a Bad Influence

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Mae Vincent

Book By: Olivia Muenter Review by: Mae Vincent March 7, 2024Mae’s rating: 4/5 stars Content warning: Eating disorders, abuse, death, trauma Such a bad influence is a thriller that follows Hazel, the older sister of prominent social media influencer Evie … Continue reading →

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I Hope to Have a Daughter like Hazel Sharp in Daughter of Mine 

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Sable Quinn

Written By: Sable Quinn Sable’s Rating: 5/5 stars Content Warning: this novel references three different deaths in different manors, one being a malicious homicide. Daughter of Mine, Megan Miranda. MarySue Rucci Books, April 9, 2024. 354 pp.   Daughter of Mine … Continue reading →

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Review of BRIDGE TO BAT CITY

Posted on December 21, 2023 by starcatbooks

Bridge to Bat City, by Ernest Cline, illustrations by Mishka Westell. Little Brown, 308 pp., hardcover $17.99, publication date April 2024. Ages 8 to 12. Review by Mae Vincent 10/28/23 Bridge to Bat City is a fun adventure about a … Continue reading →

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ARCs Ahoy!

Posted on October 19, 2015 by starcatbooks

We just got in a boatload of ARCs (Advanced Reading Copies) from the American Booksellers Association. Most of these books won’t be out until January or even March 2016. I don’t have time to read them all (though there are … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Supersymmetry

Posted on August 17, 2015 by starcatbooks

SUPERSYMMETRY by David Walton, 290 pp., $9.99, pub date Sept. 1, 2015 Following on its prequel, Superposition, this starts 15 years later with some of the original characters, including the family affected by the varcolac in Superposition. The varcolac is … Continue reading →

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A review: the new Margaret Atwood

Posted on July 9, 2015 by starcatbooks

THE HEART GOES LAST, by Margaret Atwood (pub date Sept 29, 2015) As noted in the flap copy for this title, the basic premise for this latest dystopian novel from Atwood revolves around a society that’s undergone some sort of … Continue reading →

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The Fire Children by Lauren M. Roy

Posted on June 9, 2015 by starcatbooks

THE FIRE CHILDREN by Lauren M. Roy (Rebellion, $9.99, pub date June 30, 2015) https://www.netgalley.com/re/1791244?r=f This quest-type YA pulled me in from the start with the unusual setting of a society that must retreat underground to historical tunnels beneath their … Continue reading →

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Superposition: a book review

Posted on March 25, 2015 by starcatbooks

Another review for you: A book that will soon be in the store (next week!): SUPERPOSITION by Dave Walton (Pyr, trade paperback, $17.00) A cross between a whodunit and some of the best quantum physics SF I’ve ever read, this … Continue reading →

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