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About Lisa Bee

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Reading has slowed down a bit lately, but I won't let that stop me!

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Mysterious Healers That Leave Things a Little Too Mysterious

Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

November 9, 2020 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

Not really sure what to make of this one! It’s a slow build that’s a bit bizarre, cryptic, and mysterious. I wouldn’t say it was dull (there’s some juicy stuff in there and quite a bit of body horror) but the presentation is almost… blunted? The protagonists’ point of view is a hard one to crack into because of her personality, how she thinks, and how she speaks. Let’s get into it so I can explain. The official synopsis within the jacket of Follow Me […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: follow me to ground, sue rainsford

Lisa Bee's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: follow me to ground, sue rainsford ·
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A Peculiar Collection of Stories Both Surreal and Distinctly Human

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

November 2, 2020 by Lisa Bee 1 Comment

It’s been a minute since I’ve read a collection of short stories (or really, short stories in general), so I figured it might be worth a little revisit with Oyeyemi’s collection in What is Not Yours is Not Yours. Once again, I find my personal experience with short stories to be a bit of a mixed bag, not to mention how with any collection put together there are going to be those that are favored and those that are not. For the most part, these […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Lisa Bee's CBR12 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours ·
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A Sugary-Sweet Take on Dark Academia That’s Far Too Unpleasant to Other Women

Bunny by Mona Awad

October 23, 2020 by Lisa Bee 3 Comments

BIG OOF on this one! As I neared the end of this novel, I noticed a pull-quote on the cover that I originally didn’t pay attention to on account of being in an unappealing font to read (I’m weird about fonts, y’all, it’s part of my job after all). Upon actually looking at it, however, I saw that it was written by someone I very much don’t care for. So in retrospect, that might have been a clue that I wasn’t going to enjoy this […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bunny, mona awad

Lisa Bee's CBR12 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bunny, mona awad ·
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The Cover Screamed “ME!” But the Read Was Actually Very Frustrating and Not Me At All…

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

October 9, 2020 by Lisa Bee 2 Comments

A cover showing a woman lovingly embracing a fish AND a title which is my star sign (a sign that I personally extremely exemplify in all manners of my behavior)? Sign me up! Or so I thought. Turns out, despite wanting to know where this would go and thereby finishing it quite quickly, I wasn’t feeling it for a few reasons. And yes, I will get into all of them because I have realized that when I don’t like things I always feel like I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: melissa broder, the pisces

Lisa Bee's CBR12 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: melissa broder, the pisces ·
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Sometimes the Horrors We Create In Our Minds Are Easier to Exist With Than Reality

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

October 4, 2020 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

“Reality never changes. Only our recollections of it do. Whenever a moment passes, we pass along with it into the realm of memory. And in that realm, geometries change. Contours shift, shades lighten, objectivities dissolve. Memory becomes what we need it to be.” The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a coming-of-age novel that takes place over one fateful summer where lessons are learned and relationships take on new meanings. Our protagonist is a 12 year-old boy named Jake, living in Niagara Falls in the 1980s. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: craig davidson, the saturday night ghost club

Lisa Bee's CBR12 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: craig davidson, the saturday night ghost club ·
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