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Good evening, everyone. I'm Leslie Monster, and this is Nightline. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: narfna's Quick Questions interview.)

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Time to start putting this one to bed.

Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3) by Elle Cosimano

March 29, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

We’re definitely experiencing diminishing returns with this series, but I’m still enjoying myself. I think I’m ready for it to have a definitive ending, though. I don’t want the author to beat this horse to death just because we keep buying the books out of remembered affection for how crazy good we thought book one was. To be honest, I no longer remember most of the details of the plot of this book. Finlay and Vero have to find out who EasyClean is (the hit […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: comic suspense, Elle Cosimano, finlay donovan, Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun, narfna

narfna's CBR15 Review No:36 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: comic suspense, Elle Cosimano, finlay donovan, Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun, narfna ·
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Math problems on Mars.

Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier

March 28, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I said in a status update while reading Singer Distance that it was giving me Contact vibes, and that’s true. The homespun science and grungy academic feel of the book, along with a group of characters working towards contacting aliens does give me the same feelings I get watching that movie (I have the book and I really need to finally read it!), but Singer Distance also has its own unique feel. This is an alternate history where back in the late 1800s, scientists spotted a message on Mars and began […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Aliens, alternate history, Ethan Chatagnier, historical fiction, literary fiction, literary sci-fi, math, narfna, sci-fi, Singer Distance

narfna's CBR15 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Aliens, alternate history, Ethan Chatagnier, historical fiction, literary fiction, literary sci-fi, math, narfna, sci-fi, Singer Distance ·
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“I disagree. If a feeling knocks and no one answers, it’ll get p[EXPLICIT]d off. It’ll kick the door in, chuck the gift at you and smash your best ornaments so you don’t disrespect it again. You’ll be clearing up a lot more mess than you had to start with. So it’s good, Maxine, to cry if you want. Remember that.”

The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

March 28, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I might have to go lower my rating for The Appeal based on how much more I liked this one. The premise is once again based on a unique format; this time instead of being told through emails, we’ve got audio recordings made on an old iPhone 4 by a man just out of an eleven year prison stint. The difference between her first book and this one, aside from being more elaborate, is that here we have characters to emotionally connect to. In The Appeal, the format […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: British, British mystery, Janice Hallett, mystery, narfna, puzzle mystery, The Twyford Code

narfna's CBR15 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: British, British mystery, Janice Hallett, mystery, narfna, puzzle mystery, The Twyford Code ·
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A bit of a perplexing read for me. Half of this was great! The other half was . . . fine.

Sign Here by Claudia Lux

March 28, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I held off on rating and reviewing this book because I wasn’t sure how I felt about it and I wanted to “let it simmer a bit.” I regret this stupid decision now because I still don’t really know how I feel about the book, and now I also don’t really remember the book! I mean, I remember the book, but I don’t remember like most of the characters names. Who knows what else I’ve forgotten. What I do remember is that this book is […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Claudia Lux, horror, mystery, narfna, sign here, Suspense

narfna's CBR15 Review No:33 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Claudia Lux, horror, mystery, narfna, sign here, Suspense ·
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“You really named her ‘Linnea’?” “Linnea’s a survivor.” “She dies in every movie.” “Her characters do, but she goes from movie to movie,” Letha says. “She never dies.”

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Lake Witch Trilogy, #2) by Stephen Graham Jones

March 28, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

So this was a really good book! But it had extremely large shoes to fill. My expectations weren’t that high for it, but only because I purposefully set them low knowing that living up to the genius that was My Heart is a Chainsaw was just going to be a really tall order. I feel like I need to re-read both this one and the first one pretty soon and take it slowly, and tab and annotate, because I got in my own way here. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror Tagged With: audiobooks, Don't Fear the Reaper, full cast audio, horror, Jade Daniels, narfna, Stephen Graham Jones, the lake witch trilogy

narfna's CBR15 Review No:32 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror · Tags: audiobooks, Don't Fear the Reaper, full cast audio, horror, Jade Daniels, narfna, Stephen Graham Jones, the lake witch trilogy ·
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“For here was the thing that no fairy tale would ever admit, but that she understood in that moment: love was not inherently good.”

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

March 21, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a weird and unique read. If you like darker fantasy that plays with ideas as the basis for stories, this might be a good one for you to check out. It was relatively short, but the imagination the author showcases was really fun, and the icky elements were icky in a good way. I’m not quite sure how to talk about the book, though! The main character here is Devon, a Book Eater, which is a human-like being who instead of eating food, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: #fantasy, fantasy horror, horror, narfna, Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters, Women's History Month

narfna's CBR15 Review No:31 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: #fantasy, fantasy horror, horror, narfna, Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters, Women's History Month ·
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