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About Bothari43

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When writing a genre-based lim'rick / Avoid lengthy 'post-apoc'lyptic' / Though CB reviews / Have broadened my views / My fave is still chick-written sci-fic

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Beats a very low bar – barely

Enchanted Pilgrimage by Clifford Simak

May 14, 2022 by Bothari43 1 Comment

When I was complaining about old-school sci-fi written by old white men (darn you, library sci-fi book club!) a couple commenters suggested I try Clifford Simak. My mom had also recently suggested him, so when I found Enchanted Pilgrimage at a used bookstore, I figured it was a sign. Unfortunately, I didn’t love this one either. It had some lovely bits and passages, but overall it was very disjointed, with plot threads lost and picked up again (or not), characters doing stuff for no reason […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: all the tropes, Clifford Simak, magical creatures, magical lands, plus parallel dimensions

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: all the tropes, Clifford Simak, magical creatures, magical lands, plus parallel dimensions ·
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Only Mostly Dead

Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace

May 2, 2022 by Bothari43 Leave a Comment

I read Kali Wallace’s Dead Space last year and really liked it, so I picked this one out from the library without even reading the blurb. It was completely unexpected (no space!), but I liked this one too. Breezy was a pretty typical teenage (16/17) girl, dealing with high school, sisters, and a best friend who isn’t all that nice to her (why do we all fall for that at that age?). Then, all of a sudden, she wakes up in a shallow grave a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Kali Wallace, monsters are people too, religious cults are bad, undead teen heroine

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Kali Wallace, monsters are people too, religious cults are bad, undead teen heroine ·
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I hope this new must-read author is a fast writer – I need more!

Finder by Suzanne Palmer

April 20, 2022 by Bothari43 3 Comments

The problem with finding a new author who is new to the scene and not just new to me is that there’s no backlog to dive into. Suzanne, I hope you’re working on a stack of new stuff STAT! I actually started this series with book two and loved it, this is book one, and book three came out last year and now I have to find it. The Finder series is a lot of fun. Fergus Ferguson has some serious emotional baggage, but travels […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Suzanne Palmer

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Suzanne Palmer ·
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Characters wishing there were signs at a fork in the road: “There’s cake this way!” vs. “So many teeth! Nope nope nope!”

Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

April 1, 2022 by Bothari43 1 Comment

Does every slightly funny fantasy book get compared to Terry Pratchett? A of all, that’s lazy, and second of B, it is so rarely accurate. This was slight and fun, but it reminded me more of a Christopher Moore type than a Pratchett type. But when I downloaded it from my library app, there were lots of raving quotes about its Pratchettness. This set the bar too high for a book that was just fine. This starts out like every fantasy book you’ve ever read, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy Tagged With: Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne, heroic goats, so many puns, subverting tropes

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy · Tags: Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne, heroic goats, so many puns, subverting tropes ·
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Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: Travis_J_Smith

April 1, 2022 by Bothari43 8 Comments

How many times have you participated in CBR? Has it changed the way you read? Hm, per Cannonball Read itself, this is my 4th time participating. But, per me, I’d say this is really only my second proper go of it. I don’t know if it was something akin to burnout after setting a record (at the time) for most books, which could’ve been higher had I not fallen so behind on the review part of the equation, or if it was just a more […]

Filed Under: News from MsWas Tagged With: Cannon Fodder, Cannon Fodder Q&A, quick questions with a Cannonballer

Genres: News from MsWas · Tags: Cannon Fodder, Cannon Fodder Q&A, quick questions with a Cannonballer ·
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Confirming Jemisin belongs on my must-read list

Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin

March 24, 2022 by Bothari43 2 Comments

I loooooved the Broken Earth trilogy, but did not love The City We Became, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I picked up the first in Jemisin’s Dreamblood ‘duology.’ I am happy to report that it’s great. I think I just prefer my fantasy novels to be wholly fantastic, with none of that pesky real-world crossover. I much prefer the fictional (but loosely based on ancient Egypt) Gujaareh over New York City. Gujaareh is a city steeped in religion and its accompanying […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: ancient Egypt, magic and religion, n.k. jemisin

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: ancient Egypt, magic and religion, n.k. jemisin ·
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