Nyx Book Reviews

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Review: A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin (Steel and Snow + Blood and Gold)

Title: A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow Author: George R.R. Martin Series: A Song of Ice and Fire #3.1 Rating: 4 Stars 569 pages Published September 1st 2011 by Harper Voyager Received as a gift Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository At over 1200 pages A Storm of Swords is such a big-ass book […]

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Black Dagger Brotherhood Series (#4-6) Mini Reviews

Title: Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood #4) Author: J.R. Ward Published March 6th 2007 by Onyx Butch and Marissa’s story. I love how Marissa develops as a character and goes from a sheltered member of the aristocracy to an independent individual. Butch goes through many transformations himself, and I was glad for the fact that […]

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Review: Symbiont by Mira Grant

Title: Symbiont Author: Mira Grant Series: Parasitology #2 Rating: 5 Stars 518 pages Published November 25th 2014 by Orbit Bought Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository Symbiont is the long-awaited sequel to Parasite, and the second book of the Parasitology trilogy. After the revelations in Parasite, things get increasingly worse in this world where parasitic […]

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Review: Of Things Gone Astray by Janina Matthewson

Title: Of Things Gone Astray Author: Janina Matthewson Series: Stand-alone Rating: 5 Stars 288 pages Expected publication February 3rd 2015 by The Friday Project Review copy received from the publisher Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository Literary fiction has the reputation of being high-brow, inaccessible, and overly complicated. Of Things Gone Astray proves that the […]

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Black Dagger Brotherhood Summer: Thoughts on Dark Lover

During Black Dagger Brotherhood Summer I revisit the BDB books I read a year ago, read the ones I haven’t yet, and provide some cool guest posts and giveaways. Instead of doing one of my (admittedly) rigidly structured reviews for the BDB books, I’m just going to ramble a bit about them. My first encounter […]

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Review: Don’t You Forget About Me by Kate Karyus Quinn

Title: Don’t You Forget About Me Author: Kate Karyus Quinn Series: None Rating: 5 Stars 336 pages Published June 10th by HarperTeen Review copy provided by publisher Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository It’s a truth universally acknowledged that if the book is weird and crazy, Celine will love it. And Don’t You Forget About […]

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Short Reviews: For Darkness Shows the Stars #0.5-1.5 by Diana Peterfreund

Title: Among the Nameless Stars Author: Diana Peterfreund Series: For Darkness Shows the Stars #0.5 Rating: 5/5 Stars 60 pages Published June 4th 2012 by HarperCollins Bought (free) Goodreads | Amazon A novella set before For Darkness Shows the Stars, Among the Nameless Stars follows Kai after he runs away from the North estate. It […]

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Short Reviews: A Series of Unfortunate Events #1-4 by Lemony Snicket

Title: The Bad Beginning Author: Lemony Snicket Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Rating: 5/5 Stars 176 pages Published September 30th 1999 by Scholastic Bought Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository I first read this book when I was around 10. I completely loved it. As a child, I adored the darkness about it, […]

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