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The Wicked Deep || Book Review

G oodreads:   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36697848-the-wicked-deep R ating:  4.75/5  P lot:   " The Swan season has begun. And this little town tucked along the shore will not come out unharmed. " The small town of Sparrow,Oregon, has spent the past two centuries haunted by the ghosts of its past. After the murder of the three Sparrow sisters in 1822 after finding them guilty of witchcraft, the spirits of the girls crawl out of the water each summer to take revenge on the town. Each summer, the sisters take over the bodies of three local girls and lure boys,locals and tourists alike to their deaths in the waters surrounding Sparrow. From the small Lumiere Island, Penny Talbot has followed these events unfold each summer throughout her life and has accepted the fate of her town. That is, until Bo, a mysterious boy, stumbles into the town in the middle of the Swan season and Penny is forced to make difficult choices in order to protect ...

Spare And Found Parts || Book Review

Goodreads:   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23566912-spare-and-found-parts?ac=1&from_search=true Rating:  5/5 Plot:  Set in a futuristic,post-apocalyptic and slightly steam-punky version of Dublin, Spare and found parts  is a modern Franenstein retelling with a twist. The story follows our young heroine, Nell, part girl and part machine, as she tries to change the world once more by changing her life to begin with and creating something never seen before. Equally depicts the search for companionship and the search for breakthrough. Thoughts: I quite honestly am at a loss of words when it comes to expressing my love for this book in a way that would do it justice ever so slightly. First off, I must admit that I found it unbelievable that this is Sarah's 1st published novel.Though I know she's done a fair share of nonfiction in the past,I do believe this is her first actual novel,which my brain simply cannot compute.This does not rea...