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We’re back in business, baby!

Persepolis Rising by James S. A. Corey

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Don’t read this review if you’re planning to read the book. After my unfortunately middling review of book 6 (largely thanks to the Marvel-esque villain problem) I am so happy to report that holy COW we are back! Also please forgive typos, tangents, and the like – I am suffering so mightily from a terrible jet lag. I’m going to beef up these first few sentences of the review because while I hate to call it a spoiler (given that it’s revealed in, like, literally the first ten words) there is a key element in this book that is so […]

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5/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Is her blog real? I wish it was real

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I just really dug this book, y’all. It’s a long read for sure, and I was stoked to be along for the ride. The story is expertly told and I hung on for every word. Also, I really really wish that Ifemelu’s blog, “Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black” was real because I would read the shit out of it. Is it real? Has someone made it real? I’m just assuming no but I also haven’t researched. I’m 90% sure I bought this for my mom one Christmas and I’m a […]

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5/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

I feel like I’m okay with this ending

In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken

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This review is going to suffer from me having read multiple books since finishing this one. I do apologize. I powered through it mostly to have the conclusion and, hey, it was a pretty satisfying one, as “dystopian YA novels with powerful teenage female protagonists” go. The book actually dives pretty deeply into what is clearly Ruby’s PTSD following the bombing of their previous base and the loss of one of her closest friends. Granted, the book then also sidesteps some of those symptoms to make them part of some greater plot, but the author at least tried. It was […]

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5/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

Visceral, heartbreaking, with just a little bit of “huh?”

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

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I did The Thing again where I was traveling and I read all the books and now I have to review them in a jumble. Thankfully, I’m starting with one that was absolutely brilliant and I will definitely not confuse with anything else. Let’s hit the ground running, y’all. Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is a story of an escape from slavery, exceptionally true-to-life except for a significant ‘what if’: what if the Underground Railroad was an actual goddamn underground railroad? Like with tracks and trains and station masters and the works? Our protagonist is Cora, a young woman born into […]

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5/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

Might frustrate you, but only temporarily

The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

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I enjoyed this one! It was easy and fun to just chew through – I started it on the plane, got home, and promptly cracked it back open to finish. It’s a mystery within a mystery and I did enjoy that format for the most part. Head’s up, you mostly finish the first mystery at the halfway point in the book and have to read rest of it to get the answers. Our main character (I think her name is Susan? I can’t remember) is an editor with a small publisher and we open to her first person narrative as […]

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5/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

Entertaining, empty calories

The Windfall by Diksha Basu

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This is definitely the book that suffered the most in my “read first, review later” rush last week. Sorry, y’all. I liked it, it just doesn’t stand out for me. Just learned that it’s a debut novel, though, which helps me appreciate it a little more. The Windfall is a story about the haves and the have-lots set in modern New Delhi, and it’s about how little people really change. Mr. Jha has lived his whole life in West Delhi, in the housing complex where he was raised, where he and his family have mostly wanted for nothing, but it […]

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5/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

There’s just always so much to digest

Babylon's Ashes by James S. A. Corey

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Book 6! I did it! And before I got book 7 from the library! I have covered before how much I love these books. Grown up me reading these is like teenage me reading the Star Wars expanded universe. This one may have been a bit of a letdown after how much I loved book 5 (don’t ask me the specific title, because that is long gone), but the standard is so high that doesn’t mean much. Still would recommend over and over and over. I think the wrinkle that drags this book down, relative to the others, is that […]

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5/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

You’ve read this book before

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

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I only post reviews when I am at a computer and I was traveling for five days sans computer so please pardon me if the books I read start to run together. I think they were all different enough that I should be okay? We’ll find out together. So. Rebel of the Sands. Young adult novel, world in pieces, teenage heroine – we’ve all read this book before. Of the various entries in this particular category, it is one of the better, but it doesn’t really do anything to distinguish itself. Our main character has a name I can’t remember or […]

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4/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |


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