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Jacki Reads
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📚Think critically, read diversely, be kind🦄 Crocheting a granny square blanket one book at a time ✨ Spoiler free reviews and recommendations ✨ https://linktr.ee/jackireadsthings
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2025 Crochet Book Blanket

This year I'm creating a starburst granny square for each book I read, this is a thread of each square as I go. 💙📚

(As a heads up, I am still figuring out BlueSky and the first four are reposts because I now think a 🧵is better than individual posts.)
This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #)
5⭐

The Ninth Floor. Nine Armies. One Winner. Factions wars has begun.

Full review: buff.ly/idQuLZZ

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Review by jackireads - This Inevitable Ruin
The Ninth Floor. Nine Armies. One Winner. Factions wars has begun.While the armies in Factions...
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Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire with Seanan McGuire (Narrator) (Wayward Children #5)
4⭐
Considering I thoroughly enjoyed the last adventure into the Moors, I was a little disappointed by Come Tumbling Down

Full review: buff.ly/lltUHVr

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Review by jackireads - Come Tumbling Down
Considering I thoroughly enjoyed the last adventure into the Moors, I was a little disappoint...
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Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1)
4.75⭐

Dungeon Crawler Carl is like if the Hunger Games Arena, Borderlands Video Games, and Twitch Streaming had a baby.

Full review: buff.ly/ZytBVXH

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In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire with Cynthia Hopkins (Narrator) (Wayward Children #4)
4.75⭐

Although “In an Absent Dream” is the fourth book in the Wayward Children Series, you could read this as a stand-alone.

Full review: buff.ly/H6pvQFB

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Review by jackireads - In an Absent Dream
Although “In an Absent Dream” is the fourth book in the Wayward Children Series, you could re...
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Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly with Robin Miles
3.75⭐

Rarely when we think of the space race or the early fighter jets do we think of those behind each invention. Even rarer still is to think of the Black women who played vital roles.

Full review: buff.ly/OUd9V1W

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Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire with Michelle Dockrey (Narrator) (Wayward Children #3)
3⭐

Coming off of “Down Among Sticks and Bones” I was pretty dissatisfied with “Beneath the Sugar Sky”.

Full review: buff.ly/gEVdbCa

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Review by jackireads - Beneath the Sugar Sky
Coming off of “Down Among Sticks and Bones” I was pretty dissatisfied with “Beneath the Sugar...
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The Crescent Moon Tearoom by Stacy Sivinski with Nikki Massoud
3.5⭐

Set in 1870s Chicago, triplets Anna, Beatrix, and Violet run a tea room. But not just any tea room, they read the fortunes in their customers tea leaves.

Full review: buff.ly/RALuVAy

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Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire with Seanan McGuire (Narrator) (Wayward Children #2)
4.5⭐

This standalone story focuses on twin sisters Jack and Jill before they went to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.

Full review: buff.ly/PM6Wa7w

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Review by jackireads - Down Among the Sticks and Bones
While the sequel to Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones reads like a standa...
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire with Cynthia Hopkins (Narrator) (Wayward Children #1)
4⭐

We've all heard fairytales of underworlds, worlds of sugar, worlds of faeries. But what about the people that return from those worlds and want to go back?

Full review: buff.ly/FDSON1T

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Review by jackireads - Every Heart a Doorway
We've all heard fairytales of underworlds, worlds of sugar, worlds of faeries. But what about ...
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The Shape of Shadows by C.E. Varrati
4.5⭐

The Shape of Shadows is a story of Selene learning to live, not just survive.

Full review: buff.ly/op5aaXT

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Review by jackireads - The Shape of Shadows
The Shape of Shadows is a story of Selene learning to live, not just survive. To say Selene Sa...
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Voidwalker by S.A. MacLean
4.5⭐

This sexy romantasy is from the author of The Phoenix Keeper (be warned Voidwalker has VERY different vibes)!

Full review: buff.ly/hBF404H

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A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal (Blood and Tea #2)
4⭐

The Ram has been unmasked, Spindrift was burnt to the ground, and the White Roaring is in shambles.

Full review: buff.ly/2wtdR1f

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Review by jackireads - A Steeping of Blood
The Ram has been unmasked, Spindrift was burnt to the ground, and the White Roaring is in sha...
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A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen (Saga of the Unfated Duology #2)
3.25⭐

Once again, Bjorn and Freya are enemies and it seems like everyone is out to get them. A war is still looming on the horizon, but who is in the right and deserves her shield?

Full review: buff.ly/RQdEfin

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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna with Samara MacLaren (Narrator)
5⭐

Sera has almost given up on restoring her magic until Luke, a magical historian, and his sister arrive on the door of the magical inn.

Full review: buff.ly/2fNxm3b

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Review by jackireads - A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
After raising her great-aunt from the dead with the help of a witch cursed to live as a fox, S...
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Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge with Jeremy Tiang (Translator)
4.5⭐

This book starts out feeling like a collection of interconnected short stories but each chapter has the narrator questioning both herself and the world in which she lives.

Full review: buff.ly/fpxsttE

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Review by jackireads - Strange Beasts of China
Strange Beasts of China starts out feeling like a collection of interconnected short stories w...
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Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone
3⭐

Marie Jones is a 29 year old divorcee with two cats: Meatloaf and Meatball. She gets called in to find a missing cast member of the show "Sex Island". But, before she can find him he finds her...dead...in her bath tub.

Full review: buff.ly/dyJvwwP

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The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
5⭐

Set in 1950s Hollywood it seems like every actress is vying for the role of Salome, a biblical figure known for her dance of the seven veils.

Full review: buff.ly/MvZUv35

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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #6)
5⭐

I knew Patrick Warburton was a a guest narrator, I have no name to face recognition. Then KRONK came up as Carl's dad. When I tell you I was NOT ready, but it was absolutely fantastic.

Full review: buff.ly/HWBcA8o

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Review by jackireads - The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
I will be totally honest, while I knew Patrick Warburton was a a guest narrator, I have no nam...
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The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #5)
5⭐

On the sixth floor Carl, Donut, and the gang not only have to worry about NPCs, but now the hunters are loose.

Full review: buff.ly/atiS0Ns

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Review by jackireads - The Butcher's Masquerade
On the sixth floor Carl, Donut, and the gang not only have to worry about NPCs, but now the hu...
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Birth of a Dynasty by Chinaza Bado
4.25⭐

Want to feel the same deep pain of The Poppy War? Here you go.

Full review: buff.ly/Rp9Dy6G

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The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4)
4.25⭐

Carl, Princess Donut, and Katia need to bring down a floating fortress, not the most complicated thing they've dealt with right?

Full review: buff.ly/JULC3jV

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Review by jackireads - The Gate of the Feral Gods
Carl, Princess Donut, and Katia need to bring down a floating fortress, not the most complicat...
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl #3)
4.75⭐

I imagine the Iron Tangle to look like if I took every necklace I own, put it in a bag, and shook it. Except every necklace is a railway.

Full review: buff.ly/TwHW1Dr

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Review by jackireads - The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
I imagine the Iron Tangle to look like if I took every necklace I own, put it in a bag, and sh...
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Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright
3.5⭐

When you tell me a book is a gothic fantasy with political intrigue, vampires, trans love interest, and poly endgame I am IN. Sadly, I was disappointed .

Full review: buff.ly/295UR7p

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