CBR8 Reviews 5-7 I binged through the first three books in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series in about a week’s time. Unlike my previous three book binge, this one was out of sheer pleasure. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is the head of the Surêté du Québec and he and his team are assigned to look into a suspicious death in a small town outside of Montreal called Three Pines. In Three Pines, we meet a cast of characters and most of the first book […]
CBR8 Reviews 2-4 Let’s just get this out of the way up front: these books are dumb. I tried, I really did, but man are they painful. So be warned, there shall be ranting and SPOILERS ahead (I’ll mark where the spoilers start later in the post.) America Singer (yes, that’s a name) is a seventeen-year-old girl, the middle of five children of a family of artists. In their society, the family is considered a Five. Ones are the most privileged – the Royal […]
Cath wants to be a writer, but she doesn’t want to write just anything. You see, Cath is a Simon Snow (this fictional world’s version of Harry Potter) fan. She might even be the biggest Simon Snow fan there is. She spends most of her time writing fan fiction about Simon and his nemesis, Baz, and it’s the only thing she loves to do, but she can’t do it forever and she’s not sure she’s up to the task of writing anything else. With an […]
