Confessions of a Bibliophile

Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2)

Author: Martha Wells

Rating: 3/5

Murderbot is keen to know what exactly happened when it went rogue and teams up with ART, which commandeers a space transport vessel

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The Primrose Railway Children

Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Rating: 3/5
Phoebe Robinson thinks her father can do no wrong. Then he disappears, and her life is turned upside down.
Spoilers ahead.

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Confessions of a Bibliophile

Charms for the Easy Life

Author: Kaye Gibbons

Rating: 4/5

Charlie Kate is a self-made healer and the matriarch of the family. Sophia marries a good-for-nothing man and has Margaret, a precocious and quiet girl who mainly keeps to herself.

Spoilers ahead.

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Confessions of a Bibliophile

Empire of the Dawn (Empire of the Vampire #3)

Author: Jay Kristoff

Rating: 2/5

Gabriel and Celene pick up where they left off, recounting their desperate attempt to end Daysdeath.

Spoilers ahead.

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Confessions of a Bibliophile

Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire #2)

Author: Jay Kristoff

Rating: 3/5

Gabriel has made an alliance with the mysterious vampire named Liathe (aka Celene), and must take Dior to learn more about the Esani group.

Spoilers ahead.

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Wave Me Goodbye

Author: Jacqueline Wilson

Rating: 3/5

10-year-old Shirley Smith doesn’t realise that she’s going solo on this holiday to the countryside. And also that she isn’t actually going on a holiday, just being evacuated from London because of the war.

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Confessions of a Bibliophile

Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire #1)

Author: Jay Kristoff

Rating: 4/5

Gabriel de León is the last silversaint, imprisoned by the vampires who have conquered the world. He narrates his story to his captor.

Spoilers ahead.

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Author: Judy Blume

Rating: 4/5

Eleven-year-old Margaret Simon moves from New York to New Jersey and deals with a whole lot of preteen issues.

Spoilers ahead.

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