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Well worth the re-read

World's End (Age of Misrule, Book 1) by Mark Chadbourn

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I first read The Age of Misrule trilogy decades ago and seem to remember thinking it was only OK, but since then I’ve found my mind often returning to some of its scenes and ideas and so decided it was high time for a re-read. Based on the first book, so far my re-read has discovered that, while it has its flaws, my younger self was far too scathing in my initial assessment. In World’s End, we meet five strangers drawn together to try and avert an apocalypse. The Age of Reason is over, and creatures from legend are starting […]

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12/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:80 |

The perfect ending to a spellbinding series

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

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For the first time in my life, it turns out that I know someone who knows someone, which is how I managed to get my eager little hands on a pre-release copy of The Winter of the Witch, the final instalment in Katherine Arden’s fantastic Winternight Trilogy. And what a treat it was. Taking everything I loved from The Bear and the Nightingale (and missed most in The Girl in the Tower, namely the chyerti of the forest and the homestead) and ramping it all the way up to 11, The Winter of the Witch was a superlative ending to […]

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12/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:79 |

Everything is awful

Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through The World's Most Dangerous Country by Tim Butcher

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Fresh from finding Dr Livingstone in the Congo, newspaperman Henry Stanley sensed an opportunity and so, in 1877, returned to the Congo to travel through its interior and map its giant river. Despite the mouth to the river having been discovered by Portuguese explorers in the 15th century, until then no outsiders had ever attempted to travel further than the coast. Following the initial routes laid out by the slavers who virtually decimated its coastal communities, Stanley accomplished his mission, opening the interior up to the European powers who instantly claimed chunks of the country for themselves and set about […]

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11/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:78 |

Janet sucks, and so did this

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

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Having inhaled a couple of Seanan McGuire’s which had me jonesing for more fairytales, when I came across this, apparently a Modern Fairytale and cult classic as well as having a cover that would have looked at home on any 70s prog rock album, it looked like I’d found my fix. Sadly, it turned out that this was not the kind of book I had been looking for… Supposedly a retelling of the ballad of Tam Lin, Dean apparently saved all of this for the last 20 or so pages…out of more than 400 that simply followed the incredibly smug […]

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11/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:77 |

Me? I’d be a Sleeping Beauty. 1000 years of sleep sounds fantastic.

Indexing by Seanan McGuire

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Not yet able to get my hands on Night and Silence but jonesing for more Seanan McGuire, I plumped for Indexing, a book that appears to have initially been written in serialised form in which fairytales meet the X-Files. In a world where fairytales are constantly trying to force their way into real life, twisting people’s lives into forms that fit the narrative with often deadly results, it’s up to the ATI Management Bureau to step in before the ‘mimetic incursions’ can run amok. Each of the members of the ATI team have history with the narrative – Henry, the […]

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11/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:76 |

A poor murder mystery in sci-fi clothing

One Way by S.J. Morden

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A murder mystery with sci-fi dressing, One Way is set in a not too far distant future in which humanity is about to colonise Mars. Getting there is going to be extremely costly though, and so the billion-dollar corporation responsible for the project has decided to cut corners. One of the ways in which costs can be kept down is by sending humans to do the initial habitat building required and, due to the dangerous nature of the work, disposable humans at that. Which is how eight convicts find themselves picked for the job. Our protagonist, Frank, is one such […]

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11/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:75 |

Some family reunions just ain’t worth the trouble

The Brightest Fell by Seanan McGuire

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I’ve been trying and failing to get my hands on a copy of this on my Kindle for the longest time, but it seems that you can’t do so in the UK for love nor money, so in the end I had to smuggle the paperback into the house (since my book collection hit the double hundreds and we ran out of shelving space, I promised I wouldn’t buy any more. But let’s face it, promises mean nothing in the face of a serious series addiction). I’m glad I didn’t wait any longer, as it was the perfect start to […]

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11/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:74 |

Living in my worst nightmare

The Girl Before by JP Delaney

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Pressed upon me by a friend who exclusively reads thrillers, despite being fairly run of the mill for quality in this genre, The Girl Before had an interesting central premise and was a very easy read – so easy I devoured it in one sitting. Emma is still reeling from a traumatic break-in, while Jane has suffered a devastating loss. Both women are struggling to find their equilibrium as well as somewhere affordable to live that’s not a security nightmare, and One Folgate Street is a secure minimalist’s wet dream that comes at an astonishingly low price, albeit with a […]

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11/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:73 |


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