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Heroine Worship by Sarah Kuhn

August 15, 2021 by Dome'Loki 2 Comments

CBR 13 Bingo: Rec’d – I’m reading this series because of teresaelectro’s recommendation! Heroine Worship is the second book in Sarah Kuhn’s “Heroine Complex” series. In the first volume, Heroine Complex Evie Tanaka is a restrained, quiet assistant and best friend of super heroine, Aveda Jupiter, with a secret, she’s been hiding her own fire superpower. This time around, Aveda is the narrator and the story picks up about three months after the events in the first novel. It is discovered that a minor demon is […]

So much fun it helped with my reading slump!

Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

June 9, 2021 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

Fellow Cannonballer, Teresaelectro, first brought Heroine Complex to my attention. Then it was a featured book title for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Mysterious Galaxy. I was about to go and to pick up May’s book order, when on a whim I called and asked if Heroine Complex was in stock. It was and I purchased it over the phone, to bring home with the books that were waiting at the store. Due to events this year, I have found reading to be […]

“The whole place had the look of a picked-at-body. But damn! What a beautiful corpse.”

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

February 14, 2021 by Dome'Loki 6 Comments

This book has received so much hype and lived up to every bit of praise it has received! Thank you, Cannonballers for putting this on my radar and keeping it there. I’m almost at a loss to review Gideon the Ninth since so many of y’all have done so already. Here is a list of things that I enjoyed immensely, in no particular order: 1 – Muir’s word choices. It’s delightful to be confronted with an unfamiliar word and Muir did it more in this […]

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