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Category: Book Reviews

Review – Howl’s Moving Castle

Posted on September 22, 2026

A cursed young lady is transformed into an old woman and must move into a vain wizard’s magical, walking castle, only to become entangled in his bargain with a fire demon and his battle with a witch.

Review – Vengeful

Posted on September 20, 2026

A survivor of domestic violence gains supernatural abilities that allow her to take over a criminal empire and manipulate rival super-powered enemies while government officials attempt to track and neutralize people just like her.

Review – Vicious

Posted on September 20, 2026

When a college research project grants two best friends terrifying superpowers, it launches a vicious feud that turns one into a serial killer and the other into a vigilante seeking vengeance.

Review – An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Posted on September 18, 2026

𝐴𝑛 πΌπ‘›π‘‘π‘–π‘”π‘’π‘›π‘œπ‘’π‘  π‘ƒπ‘’π‘œπ‘π‘™π‘’π‘ β€™ π»π‘–π‘ π‘‘π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘¦ reinterprets more than 400 years of American history from the perspective of Indigenous peoples exploring such themes as settler colonialism, state violence, and native resistance.

Review – The Revived

Posted on September 17, 2026

A privileged young man hunts for his missing motherβ€”one of fifty people recently revived from a coma who all share a dire message about the fate of humanity.

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