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Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Get it together, Fitz

Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb

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Fool’s Quest is the second book in the Fitz and the Fool trilogy, having left Fool’s Assassin with Bee (and Shun) having been kidnapped by the Servants and a group of Chalcedean mercenaries. Here we catch up with Fitz….not hot on their heels, as he’s instead consumed by caring for the Fool, who’s been returned to him a broken man but one intent on having Fitz wreak vengeance upon those who harmed him. The Witmaster is on at Fitz to take a new partner, and to top it all off he’s also been outed at court as Prince FitzChivalry Farseer, […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

Fitz is a fool

Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb

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I don’t often read 600 pages in a day, but when I do I’m sat by a pool in 85 degree heat and it’s a book starring FitzChivalry Farseer. An incredibly welcome return to the world of Fitz and the Fool (how I’ve missed them!) sees us catch up with Fitz – now Tom Badgerlock – decades after their last outings. Now in his sixties, even if he looks half that thanks to the super skill healing he received last time around, Tom has settled comfortably into marriage with his wife Molly and her large family. But life changes for […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

*EXCITED BABBLING*

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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Shout-outs are due here to Mswas Saws for recommending this, and to Is for buying it for me, therefore gifting me with one of my new favourite books. I read this in two sittings, only reluctantly putting it down for a short time while I ate and then being gutted on finishing it that I wouldn’t be spending any more time in this glorious world (it definitely has more than a few re-reads in its future). Our not too distant future is as depressing as you might already suspect it will be. With reality truly sucking, most people spend their […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

History AND true crime? Yes please.

Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold

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I’ve gotten somewhat behind with my reviewing after taking a week out in incredibly sunny Crete, so please forgive my brain dump whilst I catch up. First up for my holiday reads was Underworld London, combining my fascinations with true crime and history into one entertaining and informative book in the company of Catharine Arnold, someone who I’ve already read much of and enjoyed. Underworld London takes a look at crime and punishment throughout London’s history, from the medieval executions for pretty much anything (with over 170 capital offences recorded at one point, you could be hung or burnt at […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

If it bleeds, it leads…

Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer

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Eve is a crime reporter for iWitness News, and in her zeal for getting scoops has found herself getting the attention of a serial killer with a penchant for staging very public and gruesome ‘exhibitions’. Juggling caring for her father, who has dementia, with her job, Eve is soon drawn into the killer’s game, putting her ethics on the back burner and giving him the airtime he craves, while  putting herself into more and more danger as the ‘game’ progresses. Death wants to claim his maiden, and the maiden just might let him… A fairly decent thriller, this was incredibly […]

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6/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:39 |

Utter gash

Death Mask by Graham Masterton

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When I was a kid, I rather enjoyed Graham Masterton. There was one book in particular, The Walkers, that I remember reading over and over again and so, when I spotted Death Mask during a visit to the hairdressers, I thought I’d see if he was as good as I remembered. All I can say is that I must have had some seriously low standards as a kid, as Death Mask was utter gash from start to finish. It was so bad, in fact, that it completely stopped my hot reading streak in its tracks as I found anything else […]

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6/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

A strange anti-depressant, but it worked for me!

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas, Mark Olshaker

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I’ve fallen down something of a true crime rabbit hole recently. Having watched Mommy Dead and Dearest, The Keepers, The Staircase and more episodes of Forensic Files than I’d have thought imaginable, I picked this up one sleepless night and didn’t stop to put it down until I’d finished just over a day later. I’ve since noticed that a series based on this book will soon be coming to Netflix – October now can’t come soon enough for me. John Douglas was not only an FBI agent, but the man credited with making psychological profiling what it is today and […]

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6/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:37 |

Secrets and lies

Into The Water by Paula Hawkins

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The Drowning Pool is a place where many women have lost their lives, whether that be through suicide, accident, or through being too troublesome for the men around them. Nel Abbott has been fascinated with the Drowning Pool for most of her life, which has now ended in the same place. But her sister, come to take care of the daughter that Nel has left behind, doesn’t believe that Nel would have jumped. And so starts our mystery, delving into the secrets and lies of the locals, all of whom have a connection to Nel as well as to those […]

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5/29/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

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