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yesknopemaybe

Almost always running behind on reviews. Audiobook obsessed. Always striving for that elusive double cannonball.

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A book I apparently read while I was asleep

The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

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I think I liked this book? Maybe? Honestly, it’s been several weeks since I read it and I’m struggling to remember basic plot and characters. Which is its own sort of damning review in a way. Granted, I’m not great at remembering details of books, but they don’t usually get lost in my brain quite so quickly as this one seems to have. Strongly relying on the Goodreads summary for this one. Isaac Severy, mathematician and beloved grandfather dies in what appears to be a suicide. His granddaughter Hazel gets a letter from him, asking her to deliver his final, […]

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4/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

Living in her white bread world

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

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2.5 stars. Like I said in my last review, I read The Female Persuasion at the same time as Girls Burn Brighter and I think I liked The Female Persuasion less than I would have otherwise. It was like sitting by a pretty lamp while the sun is shining gloriously outside. Pleasant, but not exactly life changing. Or even week changing. Greer Kadetsky, a lower middle class white girl born to underachiever parents, finds herself at her safety school Freshman year. Not because she couldn’t get into Yale (she did), but because her parents accidentally fucked her over with financial […]

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4/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

It was always burning, since the world’s been turning

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

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4.5 stars. This book, this book, this book. Wowza. Whoever picked the title did a good job because this book lit a flame in me that still hasn’t gone out, even after moving on to other books. I did something I don’t usually do: read this audiobook and another audiobook at the same time. Not playing them at the same time obviously, but switching back and forth between them throughout my day. I can read more than one book at a time, they just usually have to be on different formats. One physical book, one ebook, one audiobook. It was […]

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4/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

Good old fashioned detective work

Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall

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I was very much in the mood for a good old fashioned detective novel where clues are unearthed piece by piece and slowly the mystery unfolds. Land of Shadows was the perfect read for that. Just a great detective slowly unraveling the threads of a crime to lead her back to the culprit. Elouise “Lou” Norton grew up poor in Los Angeles with her older sister and a hardworking mother. When her sister goes missing, both Lou and her mother’s lives are changed forever. When Lou got older, she joined the LAPD and eventually rose through the ranks to become […]

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4/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

Gotta be ruthless

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

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First off, let’s give a huge round of applause to the cover designer. There have been some amazing covers in the last few years and this is one of the best. The book itself was also pretty enjoyable. It’s apparently in the works to be adapted as a movie by the same people who did Twilight and The Maze Runner. Not too shabby for a debut novel! Zélie Adebola is a young diviner, what her world calls a magi without power. Her world lost magic over a decade ago and magis were all slaughtered, including her mother, by the royals […]

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4/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

Saving their story from obscurity

Code Girls by Liza Mundy

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3.5 stars. I’ve heard so much about Bletchley Park code breakers and the Native American code talkers, that it somehow never even occurred to me that there were tons of Americans actively engaged in breaking both German and Japanese codes during World War II. Like the women at Bletchley Park, the American code women were sworn to secrecy about their work and it’s only now that their work is coming to light. Liza Mundy spent an incredible amount of time and effort tracking down women still living who were cryptanalysts during the war and interviewing them about their experiences. She […]

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4/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

The baddest bitch of them all

The Unyielding (Call of Crows #3) by Shelly Laurenston

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I didn’t love the final book in the Call of Crows series quite as much as I liked the first two. That kind of surprised me because Erin Amsel, who this book focuses on, is a favorite character in the other installments. I still liked her and thought the book was worth reading, it just didn’t have the same pull on me. Perhaps that’s because this book deviates from the first books and I found their sojourn through the various other worlds somewhat uninteresting. There are also a few places where consent /non-consent issues are present in a few fleeting […]

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4/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

Books, cults, and rage

The Undoing (Call of Crows #2) by Shelly Laurenston

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I enjoyed the first book in this series enough to immediately get the second book. Luckily my library had a copy. Libraries ftw! I’m happy to say that I enjoyed The Undoing even more than The Unleashing. The plot was just a bit tighter and the ending, while still pretty open, felt like it had more emotional closure. This book centers on Jace Berisha. She’s been a Crow for a few years, ever since her husband successfully killed her. After an upbringing in a cult and then a marriage to the psychotic cult leader, Jace is enjoying her time as […]

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4/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |


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