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Q5: YA Fantasy: Also over word count here, but the plot has no real hook so I'm not really compelled to read more. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q4: YA Fantasy: Not sure why this is written as YA. It's way over word count for YA Fantasy, but if the author just wrote it as adult, they wouldn't have to change the story, just age up the characters slightly. (Even the voice doesn't read like YA.) Anyway. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q3: YA Contemporary: Not sure why this is YA, but it opens with a dream and the character waking up...and yeah. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q2: Fantasy: There's a talking baby here, and maybe it's the hours of Boss Baby my kids have subjected me to, but that is really not a good fit for me in my reading. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q1: YA Mystery: This one feels like it should be fantasy but it's not, which makes the setting is really confusing to me for some reason. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q10: Fantasy: This is the kind of epic fantasy that isn鈥檛 a good fit for me. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q9: Fantasy: There鈥檚 a lot going on here but it veered into no instead of yes for me. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q8: Science Fiction: This is like BattleBots and I鈥檓 just not a good fit for reading a lot of battle scenes. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q7: YA Sci-if: This story blends superheroes and fandom and I am interested to see where it goes. Full Request. #tenqueries
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Q6: Romantic Suspense: I鈥檓 having a hard time with the law enforcement aspects of these types of stories. This isn鈥檛 cops but still feels like them. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q5: Paranormal Romance: this starts off like a nice contemporary and then take a turn for bonkers that I don鈥檛 really feel like following. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q4: Romance: This #Latinx dance inspired story is right up my alley. Full Request. #tenqueries
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Q3: YA Sci-fi: This is book 2 to a self-published story which is a bit of a nonstarter in the traditional space. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q2: Science Fiction: I just don鈥檛 find the protagonists compelling in this one. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q1: Fantasy: There is no hook in this blurb. It sounds like every other fantasy story with a quest element to solve a mystery. Pass. #temqueries
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Q10: Fantasy: This historical fantasy is intriguing, the characters are complex and morally gray, and the opening pages leave me interested to see where this is going. Full Request. #tenqueries
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Q9: Fantasy: There is a lot of going on in this pitch, and I'm not entirely sure about the conflict, but there's like three too many POVs for me. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q8: YA Fantasy: This is the first book in a series, and is actually Middle Grade, which is not a genre I currently represent. Pass. #tenqueries
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Q7: YA Fantasy: I do love lesbian pirates, but I already have some on my list and I'm not in a place where I think it makes sense to add more. Pass, regretfully. #tenqueries
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Q6: SFF: It's an interesting concept, but there's a lot of time-hopping in addition to multiple POVs and I just don't see this working for me. Pass. #tenqueries