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Labyrinth Lost by Zoradia Córdova Series: Brooklyn Brujas #1 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Publication Date: September 6,2016 Length: 366 pages My Rating:   ★★★★★ Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation...and she hates magic. At her Deathday celebration, Alex performs a spell to rid herself of her power. But it backfires. Her whole family vanishes into thin air, leaving her alone with Nova, a brujo boy she can't trust. A boy whose intentions are as dark as the strange marks on his skin. The only way to get her family back is to travel with Nova to Los Lagos, a land in-between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland... This book started popping up on blogs I follow and I was instantly sucked in by its beautiful cover. Honestly, the book description could have been super mundane and I still would have wanted to read it based off the the cover alone. I loved this book for several reasons but I think it comes down to this: Ther

.  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling,Jack Thorne and John Tiffany 8th in the series Harry Potter Publisher:Arthur A. Levine Books; Special Rehearsal ed. edition (July 31, 2016) Genre: Plays & Drama, Children's Literature, Fantasy Length : 320 pages My rating: ★★★☆☆ I wanted to wait a couple of days before I wrote this review because I needed to really mull over what I had read and my feelings about it. In my mind I am a die hard Harry Potter fan. I have read the books so many times I have seriously lost count. They are my go-to comfort reads, my filler books when I don't know what to read next. I even love the movies. I know there are some fans that can't stand them but I think they catch the spirit of Harry Potter and Hogwarts. Okay, there's no way to say this well: I did not like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. However, I still can't tell if it's because of the script format or if the story itself is

Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt Published by  Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition (July 17, 2010) Genre: Romance, Historical, BDSM Length: 401 pages My Rating: ★★★☆☆ Wicked Intentions is the fourth romance novel I've read. All of the ones I've read have been part of a series. Wicked Intentions is the first book in the Maiden Lane series and it does suffer from first-book-in-a-series-itis almost all of the characters who are the hero in other books are introduced in this one. That showed by how much the author talked about Temperance’s two other brothers, Concord and Asa, and how much time they were given in the story even though their presence had no bearing on the plot at all, and the same thing goes for her sister Silence who has her own subplot which is actually just the prequel to her own book. Outside of all the extra stuff that was shoved into the plot of this book, the plot itself was pretty good. Lord Caire is searching for a murderer in St

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi Published by St. Martin's Griffin, April 26, 2016 Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy Length: 353 pages My Rating:  ★★★★★ Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar’s wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Protection. Desire… But Akaran has its own secrets—thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Soon, Maya suspects her

Longbourn by Jo Baker Published by:  Vintage (October 8, 2013) Genre: Romance, literary. retelling. historical Length: 354 pages My Rating: ★★★★★   A sign that you're reading a good book is when you stay up way to late to finish because you won't rest easy until you do. Then, even more so, when you wake next morning too early thinking about it. Longbourn was that book for me; it caught my eye now again on the internet. ABeautiful Mess did it as part of their book club and it came across my Goodreads account a couple of times. I absolutely adore Pride and Prejudice, but every time I considered picking up a spin-off novel the bad reviews have shied me away from the idea and I choose instead to watch the 2005 movie instead. (Never when my husband's home, though. I always end up crying at weird parts like at the Bingley ball when Darcy starts following Elizabeth. Turn around! Be in love already! ) In any event, I heard such great things about Longbo

Supergods by Grant Morrison Published by  Spiegel & Grau; Reprint edition (June 26, 2012 ) Genre: Non-fiction, comics Pages:480 My Rating:  ★★★☆☆ Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and in our dreams.  But what are they trying to tell us?  For Grant Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, these heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, archetypes, and his own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero.   To start things off here at Literally Literary  it would be befitting to post a book review. This is actually a revamp of a review I did last March. However, this book still h

I'm no good at introducing myself. If we were to meet I would say “hello,” tell you my name and that I was a massage therapist, maybe. Then, I would ask about you. Talking about myself or writing about myself is weird to me. Whenever I was asked to give summaries to companies I worked for to put on their websites I would struggle, feeling the push of stress building in my chest. I'm not sure why; I've been pondering it for awhile. It's not like I'm not proud of who I am, or aware of who I am, Every time I wrote about myself though, it just seemed fake and mostly silly. My first blog- a Tumblr I started in 2010 read something like this- Hi! I'm Lillie! I love my cat, and reading, and nerdy things! If you were to meet me it would quickly become apparent that there were no exclamation points in my voice probably ever. In my next blog, created early 2012 went thus: Avid Reader Comic Lover Massage Therapist Wonderfully Married Concis