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I’ve been around off and on since the first year of CBR, and it and books have been a constant in my life through multiple moves and a major career change. I live with 3 cats, Dany, Jace and Jorah. Fantasy, specific types of sci-fi, historical fiction (especially mysteries) and romance tend to be my go to genres now a days. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Jen K's Quick Questions interview.)

Jen K's Reviews:

Second chance romance, Harlem Renaissance History and Mental Health

Score by Kennedy Ryan

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Kennedy Ryan mentioned in her acknowledgments that she considers this series to be “an entire series that focused on the Harlem Renaissance, or that set women fighting for their significance and their own wellness at the center,” and Score follows in Reel’s footsteps, switching from physical health (lupus) to mental health through a FMC with bipolar disorder. Overall, I enjoyed it and thought it was very well developed but it’s heavy. This m is not the novel to pick up if in the mood for […]

Of Wasps and Other Incryptids

Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire

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While I usually end up staying up too late whenever Seanan McGuire releases a new novel because I need to know what will happen, this novel took me longer to read than any other of her previous books (a whole 3 days so nothing drastic). However, while this one took longer than normal to truly pull me in, I ultimately quite enjoyed it and how McGuire managed to bring together and resolve threads that had been pending for several novels, changing the status quo of […]

Slightly predictable for a reader without making the characters seem obtuse

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

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While I liked the author’s previous duology, The Shepherd King, I didn’t love it. It was one of those where I quite enjoyed the magic system and the plotting but thought the characters needed a little bit more, and that they were missing some fairly obvious clues. I really enjoyed The Knight and the Moth – the main character just felt so much more developed. While I predicted quite a few of the developments that happened later, I also don’t think they were to the […]

Damon Salvatore and gladiators

We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark

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I have started a few books in the last month or two that I fully intend to finish but they aren’t quite holding my attention and I keep starting new books rather than going back to them. So I feel like I have been struggling to get through novels but then I look back over my recent reads and realize, it’s not been that bad. Anyway, I was both interested in this book and skeptical because sometimes the booktok hype is just too much. However, […]

The Hubris and Entitlement of Alchemists

Inkpot Gods by Seanan McGuire

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I have read most of what Seanan McGuire has written, including under her pen name Mira Grant, so of course I jumped at Netgalley’s offer of an ARC of Inkpot Gods, the fourth of her Alchemical Journeys novels (she also did a spin off of this series, writing some of the often referenced children’s books that alchemist Asphodel Deborah Baker used to share her studies in plain sight). As far as I am tracking, this series is intended to be five books total, and this […]

At least the cover is pretty

The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

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Damn … this book is going to be one of those The Last Jedi situations for me, I can already tell. In other words, I was disappointed with the novel/didn’t love it for my own story reasons but a lot of the people leaving negative reviews are doing it for ridiculous conservative reasons. It’s like, “I didn’t have an issue with those things, you book-banning transphobes, I just wanted a more engaging main character/overall story.” It starts off strong, following the main character and narrator, […]



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