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Don’t be fooled by the title: there are no dragons in this book

Dragonmeade by Rona Randall

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I don’t think I was in the right mood for this, but I’m trying to get through some of my used-bookstore purchases before I allow myself to buy more. I think now might not be a great time for gothic romances – mostly I wanted to set fire to all the male characters. Even a spunky female heroine is still basically her husband’s property in a gothic/regency/whatever, and just UGH. Our spunky heroine Eustacia grows up with a single mom who runs a gambling parlor out of her home, meaning she gets uninvited to her friends’ birthday parties because her […]

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9/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

Going to Amazon to get your CBR link and finding out there’s a sequel: what a gloooorious feeeeeeeling, I’m haaaappy again!

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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I don’t want to tell you guys anything about this book, because every time I thought I had figured out where it was going, it surprised me. It was SO GOOD. But I was ferociously hooked within the first two chapters, so I’m only going to recap the very beginning. It feels very spoilery, because a LOT happens, but seriously – there’s so much more! It’s a bazillion years in the future, and the Earth is dying. Humans have borked things up beyond repair, and are now sending out colony ships and desperately trying to terraform other planets. One ship […]

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9/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: Fiat.Luxury

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When you’re feeling stressed or sad, what author, series, or genre helps you feel better and why? This is hard — I think just reading in general makes me feel better. If I had to choose, I’d say sci-fi, something that gets off this planet and far away from whatever my current situation is. I come back to reality feeling a little removed and refreshed, with a better perspective. In my last funk, I read The Freeze Frame Revolution, and it was a great tonic for my ills. What was it that first helped you fall in love with reading? […]

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9/1/2019 |

This nitwit has a FLEET of guardian angels looking after her

Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

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Did anybody watch Mad Dogs on Amazon Prime? Something terrible happens, and the whole cast of characters spends the rest of the show making the absolute wrongest decisions whenever they’re presented with a choice, and you spend the whole time yelling at the TV? This book felt like that. Every time Erin said “Hey, let’s do this,” I wanted to yell “NO DON’T!” It was aggravating, but in a fun ‘I couldn’t put it down because how on earth is this going to end’ way. Erin and Mark, as described by Erin herself, are a blissfully happy couple. From the […]

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8/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: sistercoyote

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How many times have you participated in CBR? Has it changed the way you read? So it looks like, from my profile page, I’ve participated in seven CBRs. Several of those years, though, I know I didn’t meet my goal (I usually go for a quarter Cannonball and anything beyond that is gravy) and I think there was one year I signed up and then didn’t do any reviews. I think that may have been the Year of Bad Health, so I’ll try not to judge myself too hard. It’s difficult to say it’s changed the way I read; I […]

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8/12/2019 |

How do you decide which jerk to root for?

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

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This book is odd for two main reasons: there’s not one main character but a group; and none of them are really likeable. I know I’ve said this before, but I need at least one likeable character to root for! So this was an interesting read, but I don’t think I’ll seek out others in the series. The Slow Horses are MI5 agents who have been disgraced by mistakes and shuffled off to Slough House – a place for spies who have embarrassed themselves, but can’t be outright fired for one reason or another. They all hate their jobs (pushing […]

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8/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Selling point: R.L. Stine has a quote on the book jacket!

The Possession by Michael Rutger

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This was a weird mix of disappointing and enjoyable. I really liked the first book, and I couldn’t wait to see what these characters did next. The characters were still great, but the plot and mystery in this one were just not quite there. Nolan, his producer Ken, cameraman Pierre, and general ‘keep everybody on track’ person Molly are the creators of the Anomaly Files, a YouTube show where they explore mysteries and odd phenomena. The first book was a tense adventure story in the Grand Canyon where the crew gets trapped in a cave and ends up real close […]

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8/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

The things we do for book clubs (a parenthetical rant)

The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe

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I was all excited when I discovered that a used bookstore near me has a science fiction book club. I listened to the audio book of their pick. It was wretched, but I’m still looking forward to the meeting. Hopefully it will make for some interesting discussion! I fully admit that urban fantasy is not my jam, so maybe this book is just fine and the fault was with the reader. However, the bratty, unlikeable main character (I refuse to call her the protagonist or heroine…she’s just too unpleasant) has lustful feelings for: a minister 10 years her senior, a […]

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7/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |


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