Category: Reviews & Critiques
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SPFBOX Opening Reads Day 65 (Captured In Words)
By Blood, By Salt | Gabriel’s Journey | A Song Of Octavan | I wanted to read more form the SPFBOX champion and a quaint fieldmouse story. A third opening from a romantic fantasy didn’t quite do enough to hook me. (from Captured In Words) 148. JL Odom, By Blood, By Salt For 14 years…
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SPFBOX Opening Reads Day 64 (Captured In Words)
Dawn of the Black Sun | My Name Is Not Alice | Copper Cold Steel | I wanted to see more of two more fantasy openings: an action anime fantasy, and a contemporary YA Alice in Wonderland riff. A 3rd European Fantasy was too locked into its MC’s head and didn’t keep my interest. (from…
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SPFBOX Opening Reads Day 63 (Captured In Words)
Oublié | Speak The Ocean | I wanted to see more of two unique stories: a stranded moon amnesia colony and a contemporary fantasy where merfolk are a corporate waterpark attraction.(from Captured In Words) 143. Susana Imaginário, Oublié Telepathic siblings try to navigate the interspecies difficulties of surviving a few years into a post-crash-landing moon…
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SPFBOX Opening Reads Day 62 (Captured In Words)
A Curse Within The Waves | Dual Fires A pirate quest with a young female MC hooked me fast and kept me turning the pages. A second opening left me wondering what was happening.(from Captured In Words) 141. BN Reele, A Curse Within The Waves A young woman sets sail aboard her father’s pirate ship…
Tom Mock 