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Brooke B (she/they)

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Review of Max Gladstone’s Last First Snow (#4 in urban fantasy Craft Sequence). 40 years after the God Wars
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Brooke's review of Last First Snow (Craft Sequence, #4)

4/5: The God wars are over and the gods have died. Sacrifices are required. Sacred rites. The gods will not receive a sacrifice outside of the cycle. Time to do some paperwork. :) The "craft" has ...

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November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM

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#fantasy #horror #steampunk #fantasy-horror
5/5⭐️✨
A multi-layered grimdark Epic 🤎🌟🧙🏼‍♂️

Brooke's review of Grave Empire (The Great Silence, #1)

5/5: Amazing! A Flintlock Grimdark A multilayered, Epic with a capital E, gunpowder horror-fantasy. I loved and devoured this. The elements of horror and fantasy were well-blended, and one did not sub...

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November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM

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Brooke's review of The Grace Year

4/5: 3.75 * Handmaids Tale X Hunger Games ~YA Feminist Dystopia~ Young women in this dystopia have "magic" that needs to be purged before they can marry husbands and fulfill their reproductive purpos...

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November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM

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Brooke's review of The Rhino Keeper

4/5: I really enjoyed this historical fiction audiobook about the first Rhino to visit Europe. We follow a dual timeline, the historical narrative being the most interesting and complete. I liked list...

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November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM

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Brooke's review of Blood on Her Tongue

4/5: The dread is Palpable This gothic horror is rightly getting a lot of attention as a literary accomplishment. This sick, stenching, gooey atmosphere of 1880s Netherlands and the bog woman, is o...

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November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM

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Brooke's review of Bury Your Gays

4/5: A meta-slasher along the style of The Final Girl Support Group. This was a great over-the-top read. The protagonist is a closeted film maker who is struggling with the media's pressure to profit ...

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November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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Brooke's review of The Lost Bookshop

3/5: "Books help you imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of." Straightforward, safe, references well-known classic ghost stories. Lots of time jumps, no deep cuts. Does not qui...

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November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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Brooke's review of Greenteeth

4/5: The tidy Welsh swamp hag Jenny teams up with a witch named Temperance on a romp through the pond that oozes with bracken and humor. Great for fans of T. Kingfisher and Terry Pratchett. Great use ...

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November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM

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Brooke's review of The Kaiju Preservation Society

4/5: The Kaiju breeding program is hiring. No special skills required. At least until the embryos grow full size. Then it's a big problem in Greenland. Just don't get tree crabs.

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November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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🕯️🛋️🎍BookNook
Dresden files🪄🧙
3 short stories with Detective Harry and Bigfoot’s son Erwin through high school and college
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Brooke's review of Working for Bigfoot (The Dresden Files #11.4)

4/5: Wizard Detective Harry Dresden works 3 short cases for Bigfoot. The narration is fun, light, and silly at times. Bigfoot has a son, Erwin, who is half human. We follow 3 cases involving Erwin. He...

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November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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Brooke's review of Fury (The Cure, #1A)

3/5: Before Charlotte McConaghy entered the world of adult literature, she wrote some SciFi/Fantasy YA novellas set in a dystopian society (in the same vein as Divergent). So I had to check them out. ...

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November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM

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🛋️🕯️📚Brooke’s Book Nook
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Brooke's review of Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed

5/5: A good short story is not about the words on the page. Sure, they're part of it. But there is a space between the words where a whole other world exists. A good short story provides a door to get...

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November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM

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Brooke's review of Snowglobe (Snowglobe Duology, #1)

3/5: A dystopian mystery/thriller set in a climate-devastated earth where the only temperate climate is inside a controlled glass-dome. Residents inside the dome are part of a reality television enter...

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November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM

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Brooke's review of Season's Creepings

4/5: An entertaining collection of holiday shorts with a twist of terror. I loved some of the premises and settings, among them: a glow-in-the-dark cardboard skeleton come to life, a Christmas Tree wi...

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November 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM

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#discworld #terrypratchett #fantasy #satire

Brooke's review of Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch, #7)

5/5: A Sam Vimes detective procedural. Duke, Commander, new father, and... A troll in the dwarf mines goes on a rampage (It's one of those givens). What happens in Koom Valley....will be investigate...

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November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM

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Brooke's review of Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

5/5: Carpe Jugulum... Go for the throat This was a delight! So smart and so funny. Hilarious satire regarding belief, acceptance, and kindness. Filled with both irony and warmth. This is one of the bo...

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November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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#oncetherewerewolves
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#mysterythriller

Brooke's review of Once There Were Wolves

5/5: Really intense and powerful literary thriller featuring the ecological wonders of Scotland. Inti has an understanding of the balance wolves bring to the ecosystem, and has made her life's work re...

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November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM

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Brooke's review of The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

5/5: A quasi-Victorian Fantasy detective mystery with a a really delightful magic system! There are several branches of magic in this post-industrial society; alchemy, wizardry, hexology (which keeps ...

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November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM

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Brooke's review of Fire Exit

5/5: “We are made of stories and if we don’t know them, the ones that make us, how can we be fully realized? How can we ever be who we are?” This was raw, the characters felt as if they could be real...

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November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM

Brooke B (she/they)

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www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #fantasy #booksky 📚💙 urban fantasy including theology and law world building. By the author of This is How you Lose the Time War