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TheShitWizard

Most likely reading about murder and/or magic, with high hopes (likely to be dashed) of getting more than one cannonball for 2018.

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Grim, but great

Happy by Grant Morrison, Darick Robertson

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The first time I heard of Happy, it was due to the (fantastic) Netflix series of the same name, which I promptly devoured in the space of an evening. And so, when I was feeling a bit down, it was a lovely surprise to come home to a ‘cheer up’ copy of the graphic novel which inspired it. Having immediately read the entire thing, I can say that not only did the Netflix show completely nail the tone, but that Christopher Meloni (who I still ALWAYS call Chris Keller first time around – man, I miss Oz) was perfectly cast. […]

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8/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:59 |

Hurry up and write more, please!

A Red-Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire

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The ninth instalment in the October Daye series, A Red-Rose Chain sees Toby have to leave the familiar environs of San Francisco and travel to Portland, Oregon, on a diplomatic mission to a hostile territory in order to avoid a war. Things have been going well for the Kingdom of the Mists since the false queen was deposed and the rightful heir, Arden Windermere, was restored to her throne. That is, until someone shoots her seneschal full of elf-shot – a declaration of war from the Kingdom of Silences. Long ruled over by a regent chosen by the false queen, […]

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8/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

Even if I wouldn’t touch him with yours…

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

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Landline is another charming little outing from Rainbow Rowell, which I enjoyed despite not always managing to suspend my disbelief in a magical time-travelling telephone landline that connects our protagonist to her past, and despite thinking that her husband was an asshole who needed to grow the fuck up. Georgie McCool has her dreamjob writing TV shows, but her marriage isn’t quite so idyllic. With her husband already pissy at how much time she spends away from home (despite apparently understanding that this would be the case from the beginning of their relationship), when her pet project is greenlit and […]

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8/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 |

Approaching the end game…

The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire

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Another belting entry in the Toby Daye series, The Winter Long sees Toby hit with a new threat – in the form of those she’d thought she’d already left in her past. First up comes Simon Torquill –identical twin to Toby’s liege, Sylvester, and the man who turned her into a fish for 14 years before the series began –  appearing on her doorstep, trying to apologise, giving veiled warnings of doom and spilling her family secrets (chiefly, that he’s her step-dad, something that Amandine and no-one else had thought to tell her). And if that wasn’t stressful enough, up […]

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7/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:56 |

Take my wife….go on, take her.

Thy Neighbour's Wife by Gay Talese

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I first heard about Thy Neighbor’s Wife when watching Netflix’s Voyeur, a documentary about author Gay Talese and a man who’d bought a motel solely so he could peep on the activities of those renting rooms. I found Voyeur fascinating, and so when I came across this on offer, I thought I’d give it a go. Thy Neighbor’s Wife is a big, fat book, delving into the sexual mores of the American public, and the efforts of lawmakers to govern these, from the mid-twentieth century up until the seventies (before the spectre of AIDS). Talese charts the changing attitudes and […]

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7/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

“Fruits which that unknown orchard bore; She suck’d until her lips were sore; Then flung the emptied rinds away, But gather’d up one kernel stone, And knew not was it night or day”

Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire

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In Toby’s world, it’s been a few months since the events of Ashes of Honor, and things are going well – especially in her newly romantic relationship with Tybalt. So, of course, something HAS to come along to upset the apple-cart. This time, that something is goblin fruit. A druggy pleasure of the purebloods, goblin fruit is incredibly addictive to changelings and deadly to humans. With changelings now starting to turn up dead, Toby takes the problem to the Queen of the Mists….only to discover that the Queen is the source of the problem. To make matters worse, she’s exiled […]

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7/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |

Aren’t we all?

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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I knew nothing about We Were Liars before going in (except that it had a good title and an appealing cover), and that’s probably the best way to approach this book – I’m going to have a hard time reviewing it without giving anything away. The Sinclair family is beautiful, wealthy, and numerous. Normally spread across the country, they spend each summer on their own private island just off Massachusetts, in houses purposefully built for them by the wealthy patriarch. Our narrator is the teenaged grand-daughter of said patriarch, and we meet her as she tries to piece together the […]

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7/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:53 |

Don’t wanna be shamed? Maybe just don’t be a dick…

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

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Once forming a big part of punishments, particularly before the 19th century, public shaming has come back with a bang since the rise of social media. In So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, journalist Jon Ronson takes a look at some of the people who have become famous for being publicly shamed – people like Justine Sacco, the African Aids tweet woman; Lindsay Stone, who took a photo of herself flipping off a sign at Arlington Cemetery; and various men who’ve been caught in sex scandals – and looks at how the shaming has affected them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out […]

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7/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |


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