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Book Review: The Bronze Bow

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The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

The Bronze Bow
by Elizabeth George Speare

4 out of 5 stars

After his father is crucified by the Romans, Daniel swears to get revenge and joins a band of Jewish zealots in the mountains. They claim to be fighting against Rome for the freedom of Israel, but they are really just bandits, even stealing from their own people. Disillusioned, Daniel seeks for answers with Jesus, but Jesus is not a leader who will lead them into battle against the Romans. Jesus teaches that they should love their enemies. Daniel holds onto his hate and urges his fellow villagers to fight. However, he is forced to reexamine his principles when those under his leadership are hurt.

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Book Review: Reawakened

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Reawakened by Colleen Houck

Reawakened (Reawakened, #1)
by  Colleen Houck 

Lily is swept away in an adventure when she meets an ancient Egyptian prince, Amon, who has slumbered for a thousand years. His life energy is very weak, so he must rely on Lily to survive. They are magically bonded so that he can siphon a little of her energy and stay alive long enough to find his two brothers and resurrect them. They are in a race against time to complete an ancient ceremony before the evil god Seth can wreak chaos on the world.

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Book Review: Tooth and Claw

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Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

Tooth and Claw
by  Jo Walton

3.5 out of 5 stars
When their father dies, the younger siblings feel cheated out of their inheritance. The two young sisters, Selendra and Haner, have to rely on their wealthy relatives to support them, but the younger brother Avan decides to sue his relations in an attempt to get back the inheritance. Their older brother Penn is caught in the middle because he is a parson and heard his father’s last words on his deathbed. Selendra goes to live with her brother Penn and his wife at the parsonage, but the noble lady who controls the estate doesn’t approve of her son’s flirtation with pretty Selendra.

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Book Review: Giant

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Giant by Judith McQuoid

Giant
by Judith McQuoid

3.5 out of 5 stars
Davey comes from a poor Irish family. His mother works as a maid at the Lewis household, and when he comes to help with her work, he befriends a young C.S. Lewis, nicknamed Jacks. The boys bond over their love of stories and imaginative play. Jacks likes to write stories and Davey illustrates them with drawings and sketches. However, circumstances separate the boys when Davey has to take a dangerous job at the shipyard and Jacks is sent off to boarding school in England. Can their friendship survive despite their different paths in life?

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Book Review: Princess of the Midnight Ball

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Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)
by  Jessica Day George

Galen comes home from the war and gets a job as gardener in the royal palace gardens. There he meets the twelve princesses and hears rumors that they wear out their dancing slippers every third night. Noble princes come and go, each trying to solve the mystery, but they all fail. The king agrees to give Galen special permission to investigate the mystery, and Galen discovers that the princesses are held under a strong enchantment, forced to dance for the King Under Stone and his twelve sons.

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Book Review: The Flirt

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The Flirt (1913)
by Booth Tarkington

3.5 out of 5 stars
Cora flirts with anything in pants and overshadows her older sister Laura at every party. When the handsome Valentine Corliss returns to town, Cora immediately gets to work, flirting with him and ignoring her own fiancée. But the fiancée and the whole string of ex-boyfriends are not content to be ignored. Laura and the rest of the family have to put up with an avalanche of men in and out of the house, and their little brother Hedrick decides to get his revenge on his sisters. He is always getting into mischief, but this time he could really cause serious trouble for Cora and Laura.

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Book Review: Aunt Dimity and the Summer King

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Aunt Dimity and the Summer King by Nancy Atherton

Aunt Dimity and the Summer King (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #20)
by Nancy Atherton

5 out of 5 stars

Lori is exploring an unused cart track in the fields behind the town of Finch, when she discovers a reclusive neighbor who lives behind high walls. His grandchildren have crowned him the Summer King per an old family tradition, and Lori is delighted to join in their family fun. But the village of Finch seems to be in trouble. Several cottage properties have been left vacant for months, and although prospective buyers come to look, so far no one is interested in moving in. Lori starts to wonder if the real estate agent is keeping the cottages empty on purpose to drive prices down for some big corporation to swoop in and take over the town.

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Book Review: Unicornia Cupcake Contest

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Unicornia by Ana Punset

Unicornia: The Cupcake Contest
by Ana Punset, Diana Vicedo (illustrator)

5 out of 5 stars

When Claudia signs up for the cupcake contest, she tries out new magical recipes and everything ends in disaster. The magical ingredients are more temperamental than regular baking ingredients, and Claudia is discouraged. But she knows that a boy in her school, Sasha, is an excellent baker, and she asks him to join her as a team. Together they try out several magical recipes until they find just the right cupcake recipe to bake for the judges.

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Book Review: Solo

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Solo by Gráinne O'Brien

Solo
by Gráinne O’Brien

1 out of 5 stars

I hated this book so much.
I hated the main character.
I hated all the nasty profanity.
I hated the sexual content in a book for teens.
Why? Why is there sexual content in a book for under-age minors? And why does the cover look like it’s being marketed for young children? I picked up this book thinking it was Middle Grade, because of the cartoony style of the cover.

To see all the objectionable content in this book, you can check it out on the Screen It First website! https://screenitfirst.com/book/solo-2592942

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Book Review: Evil Under the Sun

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Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

Evil Under the Sun
by Agatha Christie

5 out of 5 stars

Poirot is on vacation at a hotel on an island. He likes to people-watch and get to know the other tourists at the hotel, but he becomes uneasy when he sees a married lady flirting with another man who is also married. The entire hotel is gossiping about the affair when the lady turns up dead on the beach. Did her husband kill her in a jealous rage, or did someone else have motive for murder?

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