Official Review: The Gallery of Wonders by Marc Remus

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Re: Official Review: The Gallery of Wonders by Marc Remus

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Thanks so much. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did :)

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Hello Lorirainbowbright. Thanks for getting the Kindle book! I hope you will enjoy it.
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Great review @stoppoppingtheP ! :D

Congrats to the author @remus28 ! :)

I am happy to announce this top-rated book is today's Book of the Day. It is completely free. You do not need Kindle Unlimited. The author has generously made it temporarily free for everyone. Each download is like a vote in the rankings. We are already at #11. Let's get to #1! Download the completely free book now :)
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Scott wrote:Great review @stoppoppingtheP ! :D

Congrats to the author @remus28 ! :)

I am happy to announce this top-rated book is today's Book of the Day. It is completely free. You do not need Kindle Unlimited. The author has generously made it temporarily free for everyone. Each download is like a vote in the rankings. We are already at #11. Let's get to #1! Download the completely free book now :)
Cool! Downloaded it. Congrats @remus28 and thank you. :)
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Thanks a lot Lorirainbowbright. Greatly appreciate it! :-)

-- 03 Apr 2016, 11:15 --

Thanks so much Scott. I am amazed how many people have already retweeted the book on Twitter and are interested. Greatly appreciate your efforts to make my book public. :-)
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Scott wrote:Great review @stoppoppingtheP ! :D

Congrats to the author @remus28 ! :)

I am happy to announce this top-rated book is today's Book of the Day. It is completely free. You do not need Kindle Unlimited. The author has generously made it temporarily free for everyone. Each download is like a vote in the rankings. We are already at #11. Let's get to #1! Download the completely free book now :)
Thanks Scott

I'm so glad and excited that this book is chosen for Book of the Day.
I'm definitely retweeting!

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I am reading it right now and really enjoy it. I too noticed the similarities to the Harry Potter series, but it doesn't bother me. A cool book!
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Thanks a lot Gali. :-) I greatly appreciate that you are reading "The Gallery of Wonders," and I am glad to hear that the Harry Potter similarities don't bother you. And I promise the series will take a completely different direction than HP.
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remus28 wrote:Thanks a lot Gali. :-) I greatly appreciate that you are reading "The Gallery of Wonders," and I am glad to hear that the Harry Potter similarities don't bother you. And I promise the series will take a completely different direction than HP.
Great! There are some neat (and original) ideas in your book and I love it! :)

-- April 20th, 2016, 10:24 pm --

Finished the book and loved it! I rated it 4 stars.
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Thanks a lot Gali. Greatly appreciate it and glad to hear that you liked the book. :-)
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remus28 wrote:Thanks a lot Gali. Greatly appreciate it and glad to hear that you liked the book. :-)
My pleasure. I am now reading your second book. :)
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I hope you will enjoy the second book as much as the first one. :-) You will see that most Harry Potter similarities will be gone in the second book. I believe that they sneaked into first book because I wrote it in the early 90s and edited it in the late 90s when Harry Potter came out. That might have influenced me unconsciously back then. Have a good read :-)
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remus28 wrote:I hope you will enjoy the second book as much as the first one. :-) You will see that most Harry Potter similarities will be gone in the second book. I believe that they sneaked into first book because I wrote it in the early 90s and edited it in the late 90s when Harry Potter came out. That might have influenced me unconsciously back then. Have a good read :-)
Thank you. :)

I finished the book and loved it! I wrote a brief review here and on Goodreads. When the third book is coming out? :)
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I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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Good to know that you enjoyed it, despite the similarities you noticed. Thank You for the great review!
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