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The Rules of Enchantment by Wendy Tardieu

Reviewer: The Banned Bibliophile Received: Physical Copy from Publisher Release Date: August 2020 Moons: 4/5 Goodreads Summary: When a sorcerer and a scribe team up to fulfill an ancient prophecy, the fate of the world is in their hands. In the mythical kingdom of Salyndria, an exiled sorcerer named Leith plots to overthrow the restrictions placed on the use of magic by the Academy. Suspecting the worst, the Academy sends a beautiful young scribe, Kyler, to be his apprentice and act as an unwitting spy. Leith tries to drive her away by proving his reputation as a vicious and unforgiving master, but he soon discovers his new pupil is far more useful than she appears. As her charms and magical abilities become all too tempting for him to resist, the two join forces to fulfill a hidden prophecy that will grant them incredible power.  Together, the sorcerer and the scribe will change Salandria's history forever. Their story is equally sinister and sensual, a romantic dark fantasy adven
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Peter Green and the Unliving Academy: This Book is Full of Dead People by Angelina Allsop

  Reviewer:  The Banned Bibliophile Received:  Physical Copy from Publisher Release Date:  November  2018 Moons:  4/5 Goodreads Summary: Fourteen-year-old Peter Green can't remember how he died. All he has are his pajamas, a silk tie, and a one-way bus ticket to Mrs. Battisworth's Academy and Haven for Unliving Boys and Girls, a strange and spooky school for dead orphans like himself. But that's all he needs: the Unliving Academy has everything, from vampires in the hallways, to monsters in the cafeteria, to ghosts in the basement. And that's just the teachers; the students are  far stranger. As Pete learns to fit in with his new supernatural schoolmates, he starts to discover his own uniquely undead abilities, and even begins enjoying his life after death...but he just can't shake the feeling that he's forgotten something (or somebody!) important. Somebody he left behind in the land of the living. Somebody he loved very much. Somebody who's in terrible dang
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Banned Bibliophile's Favorite Books of 2016

While we're already chugging through 2018, I still haven't been able to share my favorite books of 2016 yet.  I'm always fashionably late to the point of a public stoning, and I'm very sorry for that. . . it's rather embarrassing. I really have no excuse.  But anyway, I'm still excited as ever to share with you some fabtastic reads!  (The following books are placed in the chronological order in which I read them because I couldn't rank their awesomeness against one another!) Official Summary: Devon Tennyson wouldn't change a thing. She's happy watching Friday night games from the bleachers, silently crushing on best friend Cas, and blissfully ignoring the future after high school. But the universe has other plans. It delivers Devon's cousin Foster, an unrepentant social outlier with a surprising talent for football, and the obnoxiously superior and maddeningly attractive star running back, Ezra, right where she doesn't want th
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