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Books have been a part of my life from a very young age . I'm currently being ruled over by 3 cats (Rafferty, Bodhi Rook & Yersinia Pestis), who I can mostly get not to chew on book covers. Lately, I'll read anything, though Science Fiction and Romance will always be on the bottom of the pile.

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“Little thing. You think you can just take, and take, and take until there is no more. No. The sea remembers your debts. And I will collect. I am going to take the thing you most love from you.”

The Burial Tide: A Novel by Neil Sharpson

December 27, 2025 by bjornsnipe 1 Comment

  One stormy night on Inishbannock, an eerily quiet island off the coast of Ireland, a woman with no memory wakes up in a coffin. Clawing herself out of the grave and into the night, the woman soon to be named Mara Fitch discovers that not everyone on the island welcomes her sudden return to life. Of course her return is not the only oddity; a sudden plague that killed only four people on the island, and was never reported to the mainland. The sudden […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: amnesia, buried alive maybe, irish mythololgy, Neil Sharpson, Seriously there has to be a sequel following this, small town secrets

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:159 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: amnesia, buried alive maybe, irish mythololgy, Neil Sharpson, Seriously there has to be a sequel following this, small town secrets ·
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Can I Have My Pratchett Back?

Pratchett's Women: Unauthorised Essays on the Female Characters of the Discworld by Tansy Rayner Roberts

December 24, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Hoo boy. I picked this book up because I’m desperate to read anything about Discworld, and this is the book that bit me in the rear end. There are ten essays all about the feminism (or alleged lack thereof) of Discworld, so there are ten times to go into my many problems with this book. Firmly all my opinion, so results may vary from yours. 1: The Boobs, the Bad and the Broomsticks: (covering The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: discworld, feminism, tansy Rayner Roberts

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:158 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: discworld, feminism, tansy Rayner Roberts ·
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Le Sigh, aka “Why Do I Hate Myself This Much?”

Bridgerton: An Offer From A Gentleman (Benedict's Story) by Julia Quinn

December 24, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

(Actually, probably 2.5, but Cannonball doesn’t let you give half stars.) Sophia Beckett, an Earl’s by-blow, has been reduced to being a lady’s maid/scullery maid in her own house after the death of her father.  She keeps dreaming of a better life that she believes will never come true. Until the night that the Bridgertons are throwing a masquerade ball, and her fairy godmother fellow servants find a way to get her there. Having only a few hours before midnight, her night is full of…solely […]

Filed Under: History, Romance Tagged With: bad relationships, Class Differences, family issues, Julia Quinn, regency england

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:157 · Genres: History, Romance · Tags: bad relationships, Class Differences, family issues, Julia Quinn, regency england ·
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“I thought I was allowed to moon after a boy, as the others did, and to have fantasies of posies dropped on my doorstep and pebbles thrown at my window at night. That was when I was younger, before I realized I was not really a woman but something more like a mule or a laying hen—for use but not for adoration.”

A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames

December 24, 2025 by bjornsnipe 1 Comment

The sorceresses coming to take little bits of peoples’ hearts is a standard in the kingdom. Crops flourish, birthing mothers, animal or human, never die, and achingly beautiful women in impossible carriages show up and pull tiny bits of your heart out of your chest. That’s how the magic is powered in the kingdom, and that’s how it has been for as long as Foss Butcher has been alive, and that is how it seems it will always be. One other constant is that Foss […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: Andrea Eames, bloodless violence, Howl's Moving Castle inspired, no-nonsense heroine, not so bloodless violence, sulky hero, talking cats

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:156 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: Andrea Eames, bloodless violence, Howl's Moving Castle inspired, no-nonsense heroine, not so bloodless violence, sulky hero, talking cats ·
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Thank you so much, ElCicco!

December 24, 2025 by bjornsnipe 1 Comment

Sitting down to write up reviews for the books I’ve read lately, I realized that I never posted a thank you for the Book Exchange I received. (Almost two weeks ago, now. Red, my face is right now…) I opened the box (which was thankfully fine inside, even though my mail deliverer apparently decided to use it in a game of kickball) to discover two beautiful wrapped packages and a lovely personalized card from ElCicco. One package contained Idolfire, which has been on my “Books […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: bookexchange, cbrgiftexchange

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: bookexchange, cbrgiftexchange ·
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“Awards don’t matter—at least, I am told this constantly by the people who regularly win them.”

Yellowface: A Novel by R. F Kuang

December 24, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

June Hayward is a struggling author, Her one published work, Under the Sycamore Tree (a tale about the complicated relationship she and her sister had growing up, which her sister doesn’t get and doesn’t like) has pretty much fallen off the radar. This is counterbalanced by her friend since college Athena Liu, who has just sold the movie rights to yet another of her books. June wishes she had Athena’s life, but never thinks that will happen until the night Athena chokes to death on […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: R.F. Kuang, Racism, Satire, the publishing industry, theft of work

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:155 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: R.F. Kuang, Racism, Satire, the publishing industry, theft of work ·
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