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The Very Long Journey Portion of the Hero’s Journey

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

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I quite enjoyed the first novel in the Ember Quartet, and was very interested to see where Tahir would take it.  Tahir adds a third character perspective, Helene, in this novel, and I enjoyed her parts of the novel most since they were focused on the politics of the Empire with the new emperor in play.  Additionally, she has the most interesting of the character issues since Helene is struggling between her loyalty to her best friend, her family and the Empire and her oath. Laia and Elias can trust each other while Helene is the second hand of a […]

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10/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:83 |

I Thought Supernatural Had Exclusive Rights to that Kansas Song by Now

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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It’s been almost a year since the events of Carry On, and things aren’t alright.  Agatha was so fed up with magical quests and adventures that she is attending school in San Diego and left even her wand behind.  Simon, Baz and Penelope Bunce are living together, attending university, except that Simon isn’t exactly going or leaving the couch much at all these days. How does one move on with life after accomplishing the thing one was chosen to do?  How to deal with all the drama? Bunce has a solution: road trip through America! In her mind, it will […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:82 |

All the Elements of Classic King

The Institute by Stephen King

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The latest King novel has a very classic King feel given its focus on extraordinary children and evil agencies.  First, though, the novel introduces Tim Jamieson, a former Florida police officer, who is on his way to New York to start fresh with a security job.  He decides to take the scenic route, and ends up on an extended pit stop in a small town in South Carolina. He takes on a job as the night knocker for the small police department, and gets to know the local quirky personalities.  After this initial introduction of King’s standard “good guy” archetype, […]

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9/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:81 |

I Think That’s Enough Doyle for Me

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Bingo Square: Back to School I had originally started reading a memoir as my “Back to School” square but despite how much I loved the book in 9th grade, after being barely 18% into the book, I simply couldn’t handle the amount of death and despair.  Given that the book covered 20th century China and it was still in the 1940s, I realized I wasn’t in the right mindset to deal with the amount of suffering that would still come given the famine and the Cultural Revolution.  Instead, due to the inspiration of the CBR book club, I remembered that […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:80 |

Potentially Familiar Beginning Leads to a Creative and Intriguing World

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

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When I first started reading this, I was a bit worried that it felt derivative of other YA novels.  While it was a very different set up, something initially reminded me of Marie Lu’s Legend, though it quickly became its own separate thing.  I think it may have been that both alternate between the voice of a young woman and a young man, and in both, the woman has an older brother.  Both also deal with resistance fighters and an established empire, though the gender is flipped here as far as which character belongs to which force. As the story […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:79 |

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 |


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