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“People always say that your wedding day is the happiest day of your life, but honestly, people should try solving murders more often.”

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

August 29, 2026 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR18 Bingo: Joker – Vera is a wild card in the investigation around Malcolm’s murder, and shakes up the lives of the suspects out of the blue. After a dead man is found in Vera Wong’s teahouse, being rather unimpressed by the police’s efforts, Vera decides to investigate the death herself. Unfortunately, she finds herself liking all her murder suspects a little too much. A word to the wise: Don’t read this book while hungry. Vera cooks up veritable feasts throughout the book, and the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: audiobook, cbr18bingo, cozy mystery, found family, humor, Jesse Q. Sutanto, mystery, San Francisco

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:55 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: audiobook, cbr18bingo, cozy mystery, found family, humor, Jesse Q. Sutanto, mystery, San Francisco ·
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Definitely Don’t Read the Audio Book

You With the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate

August 26, 2026 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

Rating: 2 Stars In a nutshell: Anger, vulnerability, and desperately needing an honest editor. Best for: I can see that many people have sung the praises of this book. If you’re interested in reading it, maybe see if the people who liked it seem to have similar taste to you? And no matter what, don’t pick the audio book. Quote that made me think: N/A Why I chose it: Memoir read by the author. That’s like, at least 25% of what I read. Kinda wish […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Christina Applegate

ASKReviews's CBR18 Review No:27 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: Christina Applegate ·
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“She’d played so many parts she hardly knew which one was her. She was an onion made of only skins with nothing at the centre.”

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

August 24, 2026 by Malin 1 Comment

Nowhere Book Bingo 26: Book rec from a friend (Ashley/Narfna loved this) Defeat the Goblin TBR: The Rogue Book – a book with politics/intrigue/sneakery involved (this book has all three and lots of it) CBR18 Bingo: Left (All of my fiction books are alphabetised by author, so Abercrombie comes to the very top left of the bookshelf it’s placed on) A cowardly monk. A mercenary. A vampire. A werewolf (who used to be a viking warrior). An elf. A necromancer. A knight who cannot die. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery, Religion Tagged With: alternate history, audiobook, cbr18, cbr18bingo, elves, funny, gory, Grimdark, historical fantasy, joe abercrombie, LGBTQIA, Malin, murder, quest, shapeshifters, Steven Pacey, The Devils, vampires, werewolves

Malin's CBR18 Review No:50 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery, Religion · Tags: alternate history, audiobook, cbr18, cbr18bingo, elves, funny, gory, Grimdark, historical fantasy, joe abercrombie, LGBTQIA, Malin, murder, quest, shapeshifters, Steven Pacey, The Devils, vampires, werewolves ·
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Hockey and romance

Bombshells by Sarina Bowen

August 22, 2026 by Sophia Leave a Comment

I went through a phase some years ago where I read a lot of books by Sarina Bowen because I found them fun and entertaining. Recently, I was looking for good road trip books, and I looked her up again. I realized that I had missed a couple, and decided now was the time to do some catch up. I’m not sure if I intentionally skipped over Bombshells (2021) or I somehow missed it, but I was happy to find another Bowen book that I had not […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Sarina Bowen

Sophia's CBR18 Review No:39 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Sarina Bowen ·
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Sometimes you need more story with less words!

Leave It Up To Love by Kristy Woodson Harvey

Deadly Ambition Series #5 The Silent Muse by Lauren Ling Brown

Deadly Ambition Series #6 The Line by Tim Weaver

Deadly Ambition Series #1 The Price of Honey by Liane Moriarty

Deadly Ambition Series #3 You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by A.R. Torre

Deadly Ambition Series #4 A Fatal Delivery by Lauren Oliver

Deadly Ambition Series #2 The Roommate by Andrea Mara

August 22, 2026 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Earlier this year I got a little bit burned out on long books and went on a bit of a short story binge. It also helps that there are a bunch of Amazon Prime free short stories. I love a free book. So this is a collection of the short stories I read when I was going through my regular book burnout. Some were good, and some were meh. None were really terrible. Five of the books were from the Amazon “Deadly Ambition” series, which […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories Tagged With: A. R. Torre, Andrea Mara, Deadly Ambition, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Lauren Ling Brown, Lauren Oliver, Liane Moriarty, Tim Weaver

kfishgirl's CBR18 Review No:27 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories · Tags: A. R. Torre, Andrea Mara, Deadly Ambition, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Lauren Ling Brown, Lauren Oliver, Liane Moriarty, Tim Weaver ·
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Book and Dagger

Nerds vs Nazis

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham

August 20, 2026 by Halbs 2 Comments

As promised by the title, Graham’s Book and Dagger delivers plenty of stories of academics and librarians helping the Allies in World War II through espionage and other covert ways. As the book notes, the best spy isn’t someone dashing like a James Bond. It’s someone who can’t even get a waiter’s attention. Bring in the nerds! No one can get away with collecting books, or asking questions about train gauges, or fiddling with a dam, quite like a nerd. In my mind, though, the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Featured, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Elyse Graham, espionage, spies, war, WWII

Halbs's CBR18 Review No:11 · Genres: Audiobooks, Featured, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Elyse Graham, espionage, spies, war, WWII ·
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