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Oh No There Is Only oNe BeD???

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

February 11, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

CW: mentions of (past) emotional abuse After a series of books that were either meh or abandoned for not being engaging enough to warrant staying up late (a litmus test that is terrible from the perspective of my sleep schedule but very effective), I’m glad to note that this book has broken the streak! Is it that surprising that well-written romance novels tend to break my streaks? Perhaps it is because they are emotion-forward novels where the main characters solve their issues via communication, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Beth O'Leary, only one bed

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Beth O'Leary, only one bed ·
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There’s A Reason Tales As Old As Time Endure

A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

February 6, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Mild spoilers for this book, some more major spoilers for the first book in the series–highlight to see the latter. It’s funny that Goodreads calls three stars “I liked it” and two stars “It was ok,” because in my mind a three star book is “It was ok.” This book is the definition of “it was ok.” Retellings of Beauty and the Beast are numerous (Robin McKinley’s works were the ones I noted in my review of the first book in this series, A Curse So […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Brigid Kemmerer, mild spoilers, sequel

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Brigid Kemmerer, mild spoilers, sequel ·
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Where Are Those Sokovian Accords When You Need Them

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

February 4, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Hmm this was definitely highly recommended by a number of people, but it ended up falling flat for me. I thought a lot while reading it as to why that was, and I think the conclusion is this: the motivations of the various characters, both primary and secondary, never seemed to resonate in a way that made me root for their successes. Anna/The Auditor, the titular Hench, works temp jobs doing data entry for supervillains. She’s all about The Data, in a way that reads […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Data, Natalie Zina Walschots, superheros

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Data, Natalie Zina Walschots, superheros ·
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Tale As Old As Time? Gimme Gimme

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

February 2, 2021 by wicherwill 6 Comments

This is a 3.5 star book, rounded up because I definitely enjoyed it quite a bit. Recommended here by Siskel101, I was always going to be in the mood for a Beauty and the Beast retelling. Belle remains my jam, Disney weirdness aside (did you know she’s apparently 17? What would have been lost in the storytelling if she had been 27? Nothing, that’s right. Kids don’t understand the difference between 17 and 27, they’re both Old). This was definitely not as good as Robin McKinley‘s […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: beauty and the beast, Brigid Kemmerer, fairy tale retelling

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: beauty and the beast, Brigid Kemmerer, fairy tale retelling ·
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There Is a Castle On an Island…I Like to Go there in my Sleep

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

February 1, 2021 by wicherwill 2 Comments

What a delightful book, I should have expected nothing less from the author behind the Anne of Green Gables book series I love wholeheartedly. You can read the description of this book and immediately know the entire plot. Nothing is surprising here, and I’m definitely not complaining. As it were, I learnt about this book from a fanfic retelling which warned of “spoilers” for the book, but seriously do you think that a book like this (with such high ratings, to boot) would end any other way? […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: do you really think anne and diane aren't endgoals, HEA, L.M. Montgomery, lmm has a thing for dimples, marriage of convenience, one upping the snooty family

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: do you really think anne and diane aren't endgoals, HEA, L.M. Montgomery, lmm has a thing for dimples, marriage of convenience, one upping the snooty family ·
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Racism but with Rabbits

The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

January 30, 2021 by wicherwill 2 Comments

The same way there are authors who are not for me, there are authors which are. Jasper Fforde is one of them. Authors in the former camp tend to have books that which I’d consider 4* which end up getting pushed down to 3* for me, while with Fforde I feel like the opposite is true. Which is not to say this is a 3* book that I have pushed up to 4*, just that I feel like there’s a bit of leeway he would […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: jasper fforde, Satire

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jasper fforde, Satire ·
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