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Rest Well, And Dream of Large Women

February 17, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake Leave a Comment

In case you haven’t encountered her on the internet, Lindy West is a writer and comedian who battles trolls–the kind that dwell on Twitter instead of beneath bridges. She’s also an audaciously loud, unapologetically fat woman in a world that prefers its women to be quiet and thin. I identified with a lot of what West wrote about in Shrill. Her lifelong struggle with body image issues, her journey to find her voice as a writer, and–most recently–her incredible screw-up of a freelance project. Today, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: emperorcupcake, fat chicks of the world unite, feminist, Lindy West, Shrill

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:19 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: emperorcupcake, fat chicks of the world unite, feminist, Lindy West, Shrill ·
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Historical Fantasy Takes a Weird Turn

February 10, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake Leave a Comment

I finally got around to re-reading Betraying Season, the sequel to Bewitching Season, and now I remember why I was so reluctant to tackle this one again. Not only is it not particularly good, but it’s also weird. If the first book is a pleasant afternoon tea in a sunlit parlor, then the sequel is more like gnawing on stale fried chicken by the light of the full moon–odd, unsatisfying, and more than a little off-putting to witness. After her twin sister marries at the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: emperorcupcake, historical fantasy, Ireland, Marissa Doyle, No Means No, Young Adult

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:19 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: emperorcupcake, historical fantasy, Ireland, Marissa Doyle, No Means No, Young Adult ·
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Actual Improvement or Stockholm Syndrome? Books 4-6 of Juliet Blackwell’s Witchcraft Mystery Series

February 7, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake Leave a Comment

After reading (and not particularly enjoying) the first three books in Juliet Blackwell’s ongoing Witchcraft Mystery series, I had decided to give them up. By the third one, I was mostly hate-reading anyway, curious to see how crummy these stories would get. But…well, I’d already put the fourth volume, In a Witch’s Wardrobe, on hold at the library, and when it was automatically delivered to my Kindle, I read it anyway. And then something surprising happened–it was actually pretty good. Some of the more annoying […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: emperorcupcake, Juliet Blackwell, Witchraft Mysteries

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance · Tags: emperorcupcake, Juliet Blackwell, Witchraft Mysteries ·
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Old-School Horror for Kids

January 31, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake 3 Comments

When I was a kid, my dad and I read books together. It’s a bittersweet memory, since we’ve been estranged for most of my adult life. My favorite author then was John Bellairs, who wrote Gothic horror set during the era of his own childhood in the 1950s. The early editions had covers and sometimes illustrations by Edward Gorey, and between Bellairs and Gorey, I grew up with a lifelong love of the macabre. This weekend, I had to do an assignment for my editing […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Horror Tagged With: Edward Gorey, emperorcupcake, John Bellairs, middle grade

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:15 · Genres: Children's Books, Horror · Tags: Edward Gorey, emperorcupcake, John Bellairs, middle grade ·
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Perhaps I Am Not the One Who Is Broken

January 30, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake 7 Comments

Warning: The following review contains spoilers and feminist rallying cries I’ve read a handful of historical romance novels, including a weird period in my life where I was briefly into pioneer-era mail-order-bride stories, of which there are a surprising number. (Less surprising, however, than the number of “Earth woman becomes mated to a pair of sexy alien warlords who are sometimes also brothers” stories, which is apparently a genre that exists.) It’s not that I think love stories are inherently bad, or that enjoying them […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: emperorcupcake, Rules of Scoundrels, Sarah Maclean, Smash the Patriarchy

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:14 · Genres: Romance · Tags: emperorcupcake, Rules of Scoundrels, Sarah Maclean, Smash the Patriarchy ·
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Magic & Manners

January 26, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake 7 Comments

The Cecelia and Kate books, set in an alternate-history Regency England where magic is commonplace, chronicle the lives of two cousins as they find love and foil a dastardly plot (Sorcery and Cecelia), travel the Continent while foiling an even more dastardly plot (The Grand Tour), and wrangle a number of children and dogs while foiling a slightly less dastardly plot (The Mislaid Magician). I adore the first book in this series. It’s an epistolary delight. Wrede and Stevermer wrote the story via “The Letter […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: Caroline Stevermer, children are the absolute worst, emperorcupcake, genteel boinking, Patricia C Wrede, Regency Fantasy, Sorcery and Cecelia, The Grand Tour, The Mislaid Magician

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: Caroline Stevermer, children are the absolute worst, emperorcupcake, genteel boinking, Patricia C Wrede, Regency Fantasy, Sorcery and Cecelia, The Grand Tour, The Mislaid Magician ·
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