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She/her. Longtime lurker, goodreads addict :D (Learn more about this Cannonballer: wicherwill's Quick Questions interview.)

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I would read a cereal box if it happened to be Kim Secretan’s cereal box

Think of England by K.J. Charles

September 3, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I’m aware that this novel is part of its own series of works with interwoven characters, but I’d be lying if I said the point of reading this was anything more than proximity to Will Darling and my favorite ne’er-do-well aristo with red tendencies Kim Secretan 🙂 Throughout the Will Darling series, we hear about and at times run into DS, the mysterious head of the Private Bureau. Less often we run into Curtis, the henchman who’s responsible for being the muscle. Fly with me […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: K.J. Charles

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:41 · Genres: Romance · Tags: K.J. Charles ·
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Well what a difference a few years (and a reading habit) make

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

September 3, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I picked this up for the first time in early 2019, or so Goodreads tells me. I do remember it was a recommendation from Sandhya, and Goodreads also reminds me of my takeaway: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Onerous world building, everyone’s title and name and office building and race is another similar sounding name… Let the reader’s mind fly back to mid-2018, specifically July 25, 2018. I am interviewing for a new job, because my current job has ceased to exist and I’ve been […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: katherine addison, the Chronicles of Osreth

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: katherine addison, the Chronicles of Osreth ·
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can a fiction book about the historical racial terrorism be funny actually yes

The Trees by Percival Everett

September 1, 2026 by wicherwill 3 Comments

CW: lots of gore and descriptions of historical lynchings Percival Everett is another one of those incredibly prolific authors, and I’m frankly a bit embarrassed by how few of his works I’ve read. Given that this is the second one that I’ve enjoyed, I think I’ll turn to his back catalogue whenever I’ve got a bit of a gap to fill. I was under the impression that this book was about murderous trees, specifically that the trees used to lynch Black people (the book focuses […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Percival Everett

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Percival Everett ·
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what a delightfully strange little book that I’m glad I picked up in a book swap

Little by Edward Carey

September 1, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

What a genuinely weird little book, one I think I got as a gift from Caitlin The Beloved Book Group Dictator during year-end book swap. It really skims the edge of historical fiction but in the best of ways–as in, it is based on the person but doesn’t try in any way to give you a full and thorough accounting of what their life was like, and is all the better for it (looking at you, The Personal Librarian) (now that I think about it, that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Edward Carey

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Edward Carey ·
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and now for something different and a bit infuriating

Ungodly Rich by Katharine McGee

September 1, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I liked this book but also it’s infuriating and I cannot in good conscience give it a higher rating. I mean, I did stay up late finishing it, and kept reading it in small snippets while out getting dinner (e.g., while waiting for my friend to go to the bathroom) so it’s definitely readable in that sort of omg I can’t put it down sort of way. It’s almost as if it’s got a desire compulsion built into it, so that everyone has to finish… […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Katharine McGee

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Katharine McGee ·
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my first finished bingo card!

The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

August 31, 2026 by wicherwill 4 Comments

CBR Bingo: What I have left is season, I can’t think of a way to shoehorn this into that so we’re just calling this one my Free square–which means, yes, a completed bingo card!!! Since bingo came out AND I decided I needed to get back on this reading horse, I’ve written every review within 24 hours (12, really) of finishing a book AND committed to finishing another two off my back log (on average–one time I did four and then only wrote two the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbrbingo18, silvia moreno-garcia

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbrbingo18, silvia moreno-garcia ·
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