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Kills Well With Others: Deadly Old Broads Part 2

Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn

April 7, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

At this point I’m a bit fuzzy on the finer points because I finished this book about a month ago. We pick up with our protagonists about a year or so since we left them. They have gone their separate ways again for the time being, and they’re still struggling to get their retirement from the Museum sorted out. Naomi – the new or interim new head of the Museum approaches them with an off-the-books job tidying up a mess that a mole in the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: adventure, assassins, Deanna Raybourn, menopause

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: adventure, assassins, Deanna Raybourn, menopause ·
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The Obelisk Gate: Things get worse before they get better (I hope)

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

April 1, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

Possible spoilers for The Fifth Season – Proceed with awareness. The Obelisk Gate is the second book in the Broken Earth Trilogy. In this installment, we follow two main stories – Essun and Nassun after each has arrived at a new, but separate, comm and the years that follow. Nassun is Essun’s daughter. Nassun had been taken by her father, Jija, after he murdered her little brother, Uche. We heard of them in the first book, but we officially meet them as they travel south […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin ·
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The Fifth Season: Funny how oppression is never the answer that the oppressors hope it is.

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

February 21, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

A good friend gave me this book a few years ago as a very strong recommendation for the series. Intending to read it right away, I immediately purchased the rest of the trilogy. Then they sat on my shelf for a while. After reading Amina Al-Sirafi, I wanted to dig into Shannon Chakraborty’s trilogy. So, off I skipped to the local bookshop only to find that they had 1 and 3 in stock, but #2 would take a few weeks to arrive. Rather than be […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #brokenearthtrilogy, #fantasy, #Science Fiction, afrofuturism, black speculative fiction, n.k. jemisin ·
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Song of the Lioness: I will always love Alanna

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce

The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce

Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce

February 16, 2026 by beereadsbooks 6 Comments

I began reading The Song of the Lioness quartet from Tamora Pierce’s Tortall series as bedtime reads after reading Lord of the Rings before bed in 2025. I’ve read them so many times before, so I know I can put them down and go to sleep whenever I feel drowsy. I have loved these books since I was in 7th grade – about 25 years – and I will always love them, but damn has it become clear how much I and the world have […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, #YAFiction, sorcery, Strong Female Character, Swords, tamora pierce, Tortall

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, #YAFiction, sorcery, Strong Female Character, Swords, tamora pierce, Tortall ·
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Killers of a Certain Age: Damn, I love a competent woman.

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

February 8, 2026 by beereadsbooks 2 Comments

Killers of a Certain Age has been lurking on my TBR for a while. When I picked it up from the Libby app, I was searching for an audiobook option to help fill my ears while doing something with my hands – chores probably. Killers primarily follows four post-menopausal women – Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie – as they near retirement from a lifetime of service with The Museum. The Museum is an extra-governmental organization dedicated to assassinating the Bad Guys, and our heroines […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: adventure, assassins, Deanna Raybourn, menopause

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: adventure, assassins, Deanna Raybourn, menopause ·
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: Wow. Wowwowwow.

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

January 26, 2026 by beereadsbooks 9 Comments

For quite a few years now, I have been avoiding reading things that cover truly difficult material. The world is hard and weird, and I have preferred to read “lighter” stories as a way to escape, to feel the joys with out the lows. This self-preservationist approach to choosing reading material has led me further down the road of comfy, cozy reads which are lovely, but there are never real stakes. I think I have begun to notice that choosing books which do not have […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, pirates, Shannon Chakraborty

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, pirates, Shannon Chakraborty ·
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