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How to Contribute a Book Review

Welcome to FanficTalk's book review blog! We've found that while there are places on the forums where fanfic recommendations are visible and well-organized, that's not really the case for book reviews - and many of us loved reading long before we discovered fanfiction. Now that we have blogs, a community blog seemed like an excellent place to put them! FAQ Is there a specific format we should be using? Yes! We don't want this to be overly structured, but we do ask that you u
abhorsen.

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Lying Josephine

A Christmas Miracle: The Update

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone (it's after midnight in my timezone so I can say this)!!! ???   If you read my previous blog, you'll already know this, but a quick recap for anyone who hasn't and doesn't: I started writing my fanfic novel Lying Josephine literally like fifteen years ago, and after averaging about one chapter per year for the first seven chapters/years, I then went on a five year hiatus, so this thing has just sat around lifeless for a long, long time. However, back when
WriteYourHeartOut

WriteYourHeartOut in Lying Josephine

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Lying Josephine

A Christmas Miracle (or HELP ME! I married a fan of my super old fanfic and want to finally finish writing it as a Christmas gift!)

Oh, hello there! And no, the Christmas miracle is not that I've found myself on fanfictalk.com again (although it could be considered one as well, it's been far too long). Anyone remember me? Highlights of my career: top tier riddle solver, former website blower-upper, professional procrastinator, and now we can add to the resume "wife of fellow fanfic writer and member Cannons/Fin"! A little background on the the romance before I literally BEG for help: Fin and I met on HPFF many many
WriteYourHeartOut

WriteYourHeartOut in Lying Josephine

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The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

[SciFi/Fantasy] | [Teen Audiences] | [5 stars] N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season is the first book in the SciFi/Fantasy Broken Earth Trilogy.  It was the winner of the Hugo Award in 2016 (and by the way, the sequels won in 2017 and 2018, respectively, so this was definitely not a one-and-done).  She has created a fantasy world where people with inherent powers are bred and controlled by overseers.  Despite the amazing powers over physical nature that the Orogenes - those with powers - 
Ameripuff

Ameripuff

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American Royals by Katharine McGee

American Royals, by Katharine McGee young adult contemporary royal romance | teen audiences | 4 stars summary:   American Royals is a Young Adult book that centres on the American royal family - the Washingtons. In this timeline, George Washington took the throne, and now his descendants maintain that position. As the summary suggests, there are three relationships the book follows. The first is that of Princess Beatrice, the heir to the throne. She feels trapped in that
lostinthelightss

lostinthelightss

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As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner

It is rare that I have the time to pick up a true book with the wood-based paper and the smell of parchment that slips through my fingers as I turn the pages, but I did pick up As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner and it was a great read! Set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu of 1918, it is a wonderful story about a family dealing with all the crisis of the influenza pandemic. This family, however, has a bit of a twist. For the uncle and father’s job is undertaker, so we see the story from
Predictable Chaos

Predictable Chaos

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the lies of locke lamora by scott lynch

the lies of locke lamora, by brandon sanderson fantasy, young adult | teen audiences | 5 stars the easiest way to describe this book - and it's sequels - is to say that it's a fantasy version of robin hood, only with more tricks, more twists and a bit darker - and definitely less trees  but that doesn't really do it justice: it's a book in a world which immediately sucks you in without needing to go through too much exposition or description of what the world is and how it works. it's a v
Aphoride

Aphoride

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The Witcher Saga: Books 1-5 by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Witcher Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski Fantasy | Mature Audiences | Overall rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars ***Spoilers abound ahead!!*** Blood of Elves (1994 (Polish), 2009 (English, US)) - the first novel is a really nice setup after the two anthology books (The Last Wish; Sword of Destiny) and really dives into what has happened in the immediate time after Nilfgaard’s attack on Cintra and Princess Cirilla’s escape from the clutches of the Nilfgaardian Empire. She’s now being protecte
magemadi

magemadi

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Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

I would like to apologize to anyone who enjoyed this book in advance because,,,,,,I hated it.  Writing I'm almost convinced Dan Brown was being paid by the word because there's just no other reason for why this book was so long. There were whole sections that didn't need to be in there, the first two hundred pages could've been cut down to like 100 pages if all of the waffling bits were just cut out. It almost reads as if the book was never actually edited before it made it to publishi
lebensmude

lebensmude

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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell Young Adult, Coming of Age, Romance | Teen | 4.5 Stars This story follows Cath through her first year of college. It’s a year of many firsts for Cath and most of them seem insurmountable. But first, a bit about our protagonist. Cath is an avid Simon Snow fan and writes fanfic. Simon is very much a not!Harry protagonist who Cath ships with the not!Draco antagonist, Baz. Cath’s fanfic Carry On is extremely popular and has its own cult following on not!FF.net. T
toomanycurls

toomanycurls

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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak Historical Fiction, Young Adult Fiction | T | 5 stars The book I read over the winter holidays was something that had been sitting on my shelf for a while, so I decided it was finally time to get around to it. The Book Thief takes the much-written about time during World War II and the Holocaust and writes from a different perspective -- that of Death, following the childhood of a young girl forced to live with a "loyal" German couple in Molching, Germany due
magemadi

magemadi

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Dune by Frank Herbert

Dune by Frank Herbert Science Fiction | T | 4.8 stars One of the first books I read this summer was Dune by Frank Herbert. Yes, I know, it was published back in 1965 but it's gotten popular again (I just happened to find it in Half-Price Books and picked it up and thought it sounded cool.) I literally could barely put this book down for longer than the time it took to eat meals and do required activities this summer, it was just that much of a page-turner that kept me up at night. This book
magemadi

magemadi

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