Abbreviations #97

In an effort to get back on track with my book reviews and start 2020 with a cleaner slate, I'm sharing as many of them as possible before the year ends! We're sticking to the contemporary reads for today's set of reviews, but these are all contemporaries that I really enjoyed this yea…

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Abbreviations #83: Crazy Rich Asians, The Penderwicks + The Risk

When Nick Young invites Rachel Chu to attend a wedding in Singapore and spend most of the summer in Asia with him, she agrees to tag along in order to spend more time with Nick, to see where he grew up and to meet his family. But she’s woefully unprepared for the revelation that Nick and his famil…

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Abbreviations #78 | The Autumn Bride, The Chase + One Day in December

It’s been a while since I’ve read a historical romance that tickled my fancy, so I’m glad that my friend Hannah of So Obsessed With recently reminded me that I still need to read the Chance Sisters series . With a premise and characters reminiscent of two of my all-time favorite historical romance se…

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To Whatever End • Kingdom of Ash

It’s been six years since the release of Throne of Glass . It’s been six years since I first fell in love with the story of an assassin, a competition, corrupt rulers and even more corrupt magic. It’s been six years since I started reading this series, and I still feel like it’s so unreal that Kingd…

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Abbreviations #68 | The Storm Runner, Sadie + Check, Please!: #Hockey

Zane Obispo has always enjoyed having a dormant volcano near his home, even though having only one good leg makes any exploration a little challenging. However, he would never have imagined that this volcano is actually a gateway to another world and  that he happens to be at the center of a prophec…

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Abbreviations #61 | Contagion, The Loneliest Girl in the Universe + Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions

I’m not a very big science fiction reader (or watcher), but the premise of Contagion was impossible for me to resist. Contagion is about a skeleton crew of skilled individuals who respond to an urgent SOS from a work crew stationed on a distant planet and arrive only to discover the site deserted, …

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Abbreviations #57 | North to You, Always Never Yours + Snow & Rose

I’m partial to a well-told second chance romance, and that’s exactly what you’ll get with North To You . It’s the story of two former sweethearts: Camille Marino, who is juggling her food truck career and being her younger sister’s guardian, and Drew Bautista, who is back in San Francisco to work o…

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Abbreviations #56 | The Pact, The Offer, The Play + Winter Wishes

As with most of the new adult series that I end up featuring as part of my mini-reviews, this one also has a back story. I actually read The Pact ages  ago, as recommended by my friends Rachel & Kelly . But even though I'd been acquiring the rest of the books slowly, I still hadn't gotte…

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Abbreviations #54 | Aru Shah and the End of Time, Be with Me + The Secret Science of Magic

Here are the things you need to know about Aru Shah and the End of Time : (1) it's the first release in the debut series of the Rick Riordan Presents imprint, (2) it's centered around Hindu mythology, (3) it's about twelve-year-old Aru and the fantastical adventure she finds herself on …

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Abbreviations #51 | Normal, Okay, In Ruins + In Pieces

There is a story behind how I wound up binge reading the series featured in today's post, and it once again has something to do with my best friend Rachel (who blogs over at Hello, Chelly , but it's likely you already knew that)! We had a conversation about romances over breakfast in Iceland…

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