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Locked room murder mystery, in space!

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

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I stayed up entirely too late finishing this. It was really very hard for me to put down, and that alone earns it the privilege of being bumped up to four stars. I did have some quibbles with it, but in the end they were minor, and I was compelled by the book to finish (always a good sign). Six Wakes, to boil it down, is about six clones on a generation ship who wake up to find that they have all been murdered, and they have lost twenty-five years of memory. The murderer is unknown, and is almost certainly […]

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9/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:113 |

BINGO! with a bisexual swordsman book from the 1980s. — #CBRBingo

Swordspoint (Riverside, #1) by Ellen Kushner

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This little book is not what I was expecting. I’m not sure *what* I was expecting, actually, but it took me a pretty long time to get into this. When I finally did, though, I was glad I pushed through. Not quite sure how to describe this. It’s set in an unnamed city in an unnamed country, where nobles live up on the Hill in the city, and poor people and criminals live in Riverside. Both places have complicated and very strict rules of conduct, social codes, and half of the book is the characters navigating those nuances to their […]

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9/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:112 |

“How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought . . .” #CBRBingo

Bad News (Patrick Melrose, #2) by Edward St. Aubyn

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“Everything was under control. No, he mustn’t think about it, or indeed about anything, and especially not about heroin, because heroin was the only thing that stopped him scampering around in a hamster’s wheel of unanswerable questions. Heroin was the cavalry. Heroin was the missing chair leg, made with such precision that matched every splinter of the break. Heroin landed purring at the base of his skull, and wrapped itself darkly around his nervous system, like a black cat curling up on its favorite cushion. It was as soft and rich as the throat of a wood pigeon, or the […]

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9/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:111 |

“From the stars, came the ground. From the ground, we stood. To the ground, we return.”

Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3) by Becky Chambers

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These books are so good. This one was the slowest to get started, but it finished up just as poignant as the other two. For those of you who haven’t read the first two books, first of all you probably should, but know that they aren’t sci-fi adventure books in the classic sense. They are slow burn character studies, for the most part. Interesting things do happen, but unlike a lot of sf, they aren’t driven by their plot. The first book does have the supposed backbone of the journey to the titular small and angry planet, but it’s really […]

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9/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:110 |

“It was stupid not to live your life to the fullest when you could die tomorrow, and I sure as shit wasn’t about to take hell for that from some macho skullhead idiot.”

Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1) by Rachel Bach

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This was fun! I think I might have had even more fun with it by audio, or hard copy, but all my library had was the e-book. I don’t know why, but I have a really hard time maintaining focus on e-books if they’re not romance. Anyway, hard copy or audio for the sequels, most definitely. Devi was a fun protagonist. She is extremely good at her job, and she is very ambitious. She wants to be a Devastator, the most elite fighters on her homeworld of Paradox. And she doesn’t want to wait until she’s old, especially since armored […]

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9/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:109 |

Still my fave. I think closely followed by Dead Beat. Anyway, Dresden Re-read complete!

Skin Game (The Dresden Files, #15) by Jim Butcher

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I should have written this review three weeks ago. This will not be long or comprehensive. I’m behind in my reviews, but so close to catching up! (Only two more after this one!) Mostly, whatever I’m about to write will boil down to, “This is still my favorite Dresden Files book and it is so fun.” Warning: free floating spoilers for events in the first fourteen books below. In this book we have: *Harry teaming up with his mortal enemies, the Denariians. *Harry confronting his feelings for Murphy. *Harry confronting his feelings and duties for his daughter. *The Lasciel arc […]

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9/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:108 |

My conflicted and confused relationship with Alyssa Cole continues.

A Duke By Default (Reluctant Royals, #2) by Alyssa Cole

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I finished this on a bit of a book high, but in the three weeks since I finished it, it’s soured a bit in my memory. I think I will probably finish out both of the series she’s got currently running, and then reevaluate from there if I’ll read more of her books. Now that I’ve had some distance from A Duke By Default, it’s clear that yet again, Cole has written a book where I unabashedly love the lady and think the dude is a mess (a mess in terms of story, not in terms of personality). The only […]

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9/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:107 |

New translation of a 2,000 plus year old classic. #CBRBingo

The Odyssey by Homer, transl. by Emily Wilson

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I first read The Odyssey when I was a freshman in high school. I think it might actually have been the very first assigned reading that year, and I remember being excited for it, and liking the story, but having suuuuuch a hard time getting through it, because the translation I was reading was so dense. Looking back (and now having read this translation) I don’t actually think I liked it as much as I thought I did, and I have some definite opinions about the Greeks being huge jerks. Mostly that they are huge jerks! I do NOT remember […]

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9/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:106 |


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