• Book reviews

    Vespertine

    Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as spirits with a ravenous hunger for the living. She would rather deal with the dead than the living, who trade whispers about her scarred hands and troubled past. I was really…

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    Dark and Shallow lies

    A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, I liked it, but I wanted to love it. Which sadly I didn’t. The synopsis was banger. New orleans?! psychics?! Missing girl?! hell yeah! From the beginning it seemed so magical and intriguing, but then it…