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CJ Reviews Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Title: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Author: Laini Taylor Publication Date: September 27, 2011 Format: Paperback Rating: 3 stars Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes… Continue reading CJ Reviews Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

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CJ Reviews The Witches: Salem, 1962 by Stacey Schiff

Title: The Witches: Salem, 1962 Author: Stacey Schiff Publication Date: October 27, 2015 Format: Advanced Reading Copy Rating: 4 stars It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been… Continue reading CJ Reviews The Witches: Salem, 1962 by Stacey Schiff

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CJ Reviews Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Title: Obsidian (Lux Series Book 1) Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Publication Date: May 8, 2012 Format: Paperback Rating: 3.75 stars Starting over sucks. When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I’d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring… until I spotted my hot neighbor, with… Continue reading CJ Reviews Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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CJ Reviews Conversion by Katherine Howe

Title: Conversion Auther: Katherine Howe Publication Date: July 1, 2014 Format: Paperback Rating: 3.5 stars It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t.  … Continue reading CJ Reviews Conversion by Katherine Howe

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CJ Reviews After Alice by Gregory Maguire

Title: After Alice Author: Gregory Maguire Publication Date: October 27, 2015 Format: Electronic Advanced Reading Copy Rating: 3 stars When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford… Continue reading CJ Reviews After Alice by Gregory Maguire