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Runemaker

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Great ending to a series I loved. Dark, violent and deep. Tenn is one of my fave characters! The world building and magic system is unique.

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Thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for providing me a copy of the e-Arc. I am very grateful! This one was very enjoyable and will definitely read more from this author in the future!

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i really enjoyed reading Aiden's adventures and stuggles, the writing was great and I really hope there is more in Aiden's story.

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I loved this one! It was slow at times and I thought I won't get through this, but I'm so glad I endured because Ioved it st the end.

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I liked seeing Ten and Aiden's story collide. It was different than I was expecting. The overall story was good and the world was built well. The ending was a little disappointing. I was expecting a big fight but it was a little underwhelming.

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I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book was good, but it wasn’t a book that could really hold my attention. I found myself getting distracted easily and it took me wayyyy longer than usual to finish. The writing style seemed kind of slow.. I almost would figure out what would happen prior to it actually happening in the story.

I love the idea of this story. It has a great story line, but I do not think it was executed as well as it could have been. I get frustrated with the “chosen one” kind of books. So the fact that this one was more “deciding to take action” really had me hopeful.

I think I might have just been too old to enjoy this book. It definitely was not targeted towards people my age as it is a YA novel. All things considered it was a good book and I enjoyed it.

Thank you kindly to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for this advanced copy.

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I read through the first 100 pages or so fairly quickly but stopped reading about half way through. The characters and plot are interesting and exciting, and the action happens at a good pace, but this book was just not for me.

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Overall, I've really enjoyed reading the first three books in the Runebinder Chronicles by Alex R. Kahler.

The third book takes the characters from the first two books and intersects their lives for the first time.

If you enjoyed the first two books, then you're going to enjoy this one as well. It's fun to read a fast-paced LGBTQ-centered urban fantasy book.

I want to thank the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this book prior to publication; however, the thoughts in this review are clearly my own.

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actual rating: 3.5

There was nothing really wrong with this book but I did often find my attention wandering while reading it. Still, I think it's more of a problem with me than with the book and there were still a lot of scenes that I really enjoyed so I decided to round up. I think the problem is really that I never read the first book and I am really only interested in Aidan and don't care that much about Tenn at all. Also, while I KNEW that the series was probably going to end that way it was disappointing to me on a personal level. I'm sure it's a really great conclusion to the series to people who care about all the over-arching plots, but in much the same way that my lasting opinion of The Raven Cycle is "it's so weird that The Dream Thieves was a standalone novel" I really loved Runebreaker all on its own.

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I have voluntarily read and reviewed a copy of this title given to me via NetGalley. This was just a wonderful book to read and it was just easy to lose yourself in the story. I can’t wait to read more from this author.

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This book was received as an ARC from Harlequin TEEN - Inkyard Press in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I was waiting for an intense YFantasy novel and boy did I get it. This was edge of your seat excitement to the max just like you were transported into the kingdom and joining Aidan on his quest to defeat the dark lady and her minions and retrieve the sphere of maya and either save humanity or have it end up in the dark lady's hands and destroy humanity. My eyes almost popped out of their sockets for each page that I have read. I really hope all of the young readers take a hold of this book and have the same out of body experience like I have and I know our teen book club will have similar reactions and will be dying to talk about it.

We will consider adding this title to our YFiction collection at the library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

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