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This Body's Not Big Enough For Both of Us by Edgar Cantero

September 19, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader 5 Comments

I saw a Goodreads description or review that called Cantero the heir to the Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams throne. Nope to that. The more I think on it, the more I like This Body’s Not Big Enough For Both Of Us, but it’s not the same level of clever, especially since it’s much more limited in the scope of the allusions. The wordplay of Pratchett is not there, nor is the narrative originality, or at least not original in the same way. Cantero’s pretty direct about the type of story he’s telling/riffing from the opening lines: “Elmore Leonard says it’s […]

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9/19/2018 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:52 |

Ghostbusting in Harry Potter-ville

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

September 9, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Full disclosure: I had to read this quickly in one sitting in a coffee shop because I was going to see the author and have her sign it a few hours later. I’d pre-ordered City of Ghosts, but given when it was actually shipped (the day after it was released), I didn’t receive it until Saturday, and the talk/signing was Sunday. Mission was accomplished though, so I guess no harm done. I hadn’t realized this but City of Ghosts is actually V.E./Victoria Schwab’s first middle grade book. Somehow I’d had it in my head this was going to be another […]

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9/9/2018 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:51 |

This is a cookbook, but don’t read it for the recipes

Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat

August 25, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So I’ve had Salt Fat Acid Heat on my TBR list for a while, and to be honest I’d kind of forgotten about it. Then I decided to go to the library and wander a bit because the library had just reopened after some county budget shenanigans nearly shut it down, threatening to defund it. So in addition to the manga section (I may have raided that too) I went browsing the cookbooks. In some ways this seems also like a misclassification for this book except it’s not. The first 200 pages have no recipes. Instead there is an in-depth […]

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8/25/2018 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:50 |

More Puns, Less Poop Please

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

August 5, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

If you like potty humor, read this. You can’t go 2 pages without poop. On rare occasion peeing or farting might be substituted. This novel is basically a parody of the Princess Bride, except that Wesley or rather Worstley (brother of Bestley) gets pancaked by an Amazonian-like warrior who really likes rose gardening named Fia. She falls on him and for once the realistic thing happens even though Worstley may be the Chosen One thanks to Staph the Pixie. But since there is magic in this world, Fia hopes maybe he can be revived. So she takes up the quest […]

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8/5/2018 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Family Matters and Magic

Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Revelations (AND) Allies by Lydia Sherrer

August 5, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

This is effectively one review for two books because really, it should be one book, not two. Let it be known I find these entertaining easy reads, but there are some structural and character problems that are really starting to annoy me. 3.5 stars combined. The continuation of gradually revealing more about the world really develops in Revelations, along with what is pretty obviously the main conflict of the series: villainous wizard want to discover ‘wizarding’ gene and use this information to find and wake up Morgan LeFay (yes, that Morgan) and ensure that wizards will rule humanity. What bothers […]

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8/5/2018 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:48 |

Lucky 13 and Heroes are still fun

Corpies by Drew Hayes

July 27, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Usually by this point with an author, I’ve gotten bored/annoyed or they’ve gotten predictable. This is Drew Hayes book number 13 for me, and no author fatigue in sight. The only other author I can think of with this kind of reading record for me is Terry Pratchett. Drew Hayes is not Sir Terry, but not in a bad way. Even though Corpies is set in the same world as Super Powereds, and includes some character crossover, there’s still enough new characters and situations that it remains an entertaining and fun riff on the superhero genre. Much like the Super […]

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7/27/2018 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:46 |

Did someone order another budding chef story?

Brave Chef Brianna by Sam Sykes, Selina Espiritu, Sarah Stern

July 27, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Here’s the basic premise of Brave Chef Brianna: a famous chef has become seriously ill, and he summons his 16 children, and tells them that whoever can start and run the most successful restaurant within a year will inherit his cooking empire (restaurants, tv, etc). His youngest child and only daughter is Brianna. She worries that she has less of a chance because her older brothers have all been working in the industry for years, while she’s fresh out of culinary school. The only place she can afford to start is Monster City, which happens to be, yes that’s right, […]

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7/27/2018 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:45 |

Lady Bond Hunts Spy Ghosts and Discovers Cthulu May be Real

Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi

July 19, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Make James Bond a married woman and more complex character, allow for a very real afterlife which connects in some ways to the living realm, add an extra double cross and you’ve got Summerland. The premise is super interesting: in the late 1930s there are 2 branches of British spies, one based in the world of the living and one based in the world of the dead, called Summerland. There is massive political intrigue and likely catastrophic conflict brewing between the followers of the Presence (some sort of god-like intelligence that exists in the afterlife but has followers among the […]

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7/19/2018 | CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:44 |

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