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It’s Always the Husband, Right?

The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas

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I was in the minority of people that didn’t like the second novel in this series as much as the second. I thought it got a bit more convoluted than necessary, leaving me scratching my head rather than marveling at the way everything came together in the end.  I was pleasantly surprised with the third novel, and how much I enjoyed it, and I think it’s because it stayed focused on the core characters I already liked rather than introducing a series of new people to figure out, even if the motivations for the murder might involve higher stakes. Gossip […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:78 |

Wrapping Up the Girl of Fire and Thorns Trilogy

The Crown of Embers by Rae Carson

The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson

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After the events of The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Elisa is trying to rule her husband’s kingdom but even though she has grown much since she first entered the kingdom, she still faces doubts various political entities.  There is also still the concern about a looming war from the bordering kingdom even if she and her friends managed to delay it after the last novel.  It doesn’t take long before there are assassination attempts on Elisa’s life. Elisa is worried that she won’t be prepared for any future battles and might not be able to save the kingdom, so […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:77 |

Politics, Capitalism and Impending Doom

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

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This is the first full length Scalzi novel I’ve read, and I quite enjoyed it.  The prologue begins with a mutiny on board a space ship, though the mutiny is slightly disrupted when the space ship drops out of the Flow, one of the trails used for faster than light space travel between systems. After this, the novel leaves behind the crew who were only used to introduce the fact that the Flow might be unstable now.  The novel follows a few different characters and introduces various competing political entities. Cardenia was the second and illegitimate child of the Emperox […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:75 |

Magic and War Collide

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

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I loved the first novel in this trilogy because for me it was the perfect mix of fairy tale magic with some real life politics mixed in.  By focusing on the story of a young girl in her village, the novel had a nice intimate setting even as it dealt with a figurative battle between good and evil, the old ways and the new.  The greater politics opened up the potential for a broader scale in the rest of the trilogy, and I think that extended focus took away some of the magic of the early novel for me, even […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:74 |

Questions about Modernity and Ways of Life – But in Space

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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While Becky Chambers has already explained the circumstances of the descendants of Earth in broad strokes in her previous two Wayfarer novels, in this third novel, she shifts her attention to the remaining human fleet.  When Earth was on the brink of collapse, some people with resources started by colonizing planets and moons in the Solar System such as Mars.  Those left behind eventually had to deconstruct the cities and sky scrapers, and use those resources to create a fleet for the last of humanity to escape.  They completely changed their approach to life, realizing that warfare and competition had […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:73 |

A Darker, Grittier Approach to YA Fantasy

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

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VC/Victoria Schwab is a weird author for me.  Everyone else seems to rave about her.  Intellectually, I am intrigued by what she does and the stories and themes she explores.  She is very creative, as seen in this novel where monsters are the external manifestations or results of violence humans do to each other. And yet. And yet. Something about her writing fails to grip me.  I was discussing this novel with a friend halfway through and told him, I wasn’t sure if I would pick up the sequel (having now finished it, I think I will).  Even when her […]

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9/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:72 |

Exploring a Family Tragedy and How Things Left Unsaid Fester

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

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I’d meant to read this for a while, but somehow ended up reading Ng’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, first.  While this one didn’t have quite the same impact as her follow up, it was still a very good novel, and I really enjoyed the complexity she brought to all the characters, their motivations, and how she portrayed how even well meaning actions could have negative and long lasting impacts. As the novel begins, the Lee family is going through their normal morning routine in the spring of 1977 when Marilyn realizes that her oldest daughter and middle child, Lydia, […]

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9/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:71 |

Two Folk of the Air Stories

The Wicked King by Holly Black

The Lost Sisters by Holly Black

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My first introduction to Holly Black was The Coldest Girl in Cold Town, and I have definitely enjoyed all her novels I’ve read since then.  Considering how amazing her vampire novel was, I’m surprised she has stuck with faerie novels since then but they, too, are amazing. I loved the first novel in this trilogy, The Cruel Prince, and I can’t wait for November when the final novel comes out. About five months after placing Cardan on the throne, Jude is burning the candle at both ends, and worried about what balls she might drop.  She trusts very few people […]

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9/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:70 |


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