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Not as good as the first book, but I still liked it.

October 31, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

Holy cliffhanger, Batman. I mean, I did like this, but I didn’t like it as much as I liked the first book. And it’s probably mostly my fault. I don’t know, I was in a weird place with this, not paying it enough attention as I should, on top of Ryan going and changing up the format on us. The first book was told through Vaelin’s perspective, and it was so immersive. I normally love books that have rotating POV characters, but I kept getting […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: anthony ryan, epic fantasy, fantasy, narfna, raven's shadow, tower lord

narfna's CBR8 Review No:137 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: anthony ryan, epic fantasy, fantasy, narfna, raven's shadow, tower lord ·
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Is it just me, or it the title never mentioned in the book?

October 25, 2016 by crystalclear 2 Comments

Some rolling thoughts as I went through the book: I have no idea what’s going on. Jessica is a bitch. Was Richard cheating on her?  I think he mentions underwear belonging to someone else… but he doesn’t seem the type…or was this a figment of my imagination… Richard does not deserve that phone.  It makes him appear way cooler than he is. “Richard was not an enthusiastic holder of pigeons, even at the best of times.” I like how they used the special effect for […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: fantasy, Fiction, London, Neil Gaiman, neverwhere

crystalclear's CBR8 Review No:24 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: fantasy, Fiction, London, Neil Gaiman, neverwhere ·
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Also, not enough ponies.

October 14, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

Murder of Crows picks up a couple of days after Written in Red. The Lakeside courtyard is still dealing with the fallout from the whole Asia Crane incident and the resulting storm that could have killed all the humans in the city, but didn’t thanks to our heroine Meg’s calming influence. Now, the problem that only slightly showed itself in book one, the two drugs Gone Over Wolf and Feel Good, are becoming more of an issue, as is the Humans First and Last movement, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: bishop, fantasy, Murder of Crows, narfna, The Others, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR8 Review No:132 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: bishop, fantasy, Murder of Crows, narfna, The Others, Urban Fantasy ·
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“People in the dark are quite different, aren’t they?”

October 12, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

Once again guessed the murderer by complete accident. I’m the mystery reader equivalent of those characters you often see in farces who are complete idiots (usually lovable) and bumble about doing everything so wrong they come back around and get everything right. I really enjoyed this book, which was apparently Christie’s 50th (although publishers had to count a book of short stories to make this true, and they really wanted to, because publicists never change). It starts out kind of like a game. An ad […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: a murder is announced, agatha christie, British detective, emilia fox, miss marple, mysteries, narfna

narfna's CBR8 Review No:127 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: a murder is announced, agatha christie, British detective, emilia fox, miss marple, mysteries, narfna ·
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A Scalzi short- and it’s free!

October 8, 2016 by ingres77 2 Comments

This has been on my Audible recommendations list for what seems like months. I would’ve checked it out at some point – because John Scalzi – even if it wasn’t being offered as a free download, but that it was necessitated immediate consumption. I can only imagine this was based on a random idea he had in the shower, or driving to the grocery store, and he decided to hammer out a quick 25,000 words (or whatever) before getting back to whatever his next novel […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: john scalzi, The Dispatcher, Zachary Quinto

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:88 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: john scalzi, The Dispatcher, Zachary Quinto ·
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“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”

October 1, 2016 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I wasn’t planning on listening to this book right now, but then a sale happened and here we are. This book was on my to read list starting years ago, when I put together my Goodreads page at the same time as signing up for my first Cannonball Read (that would be number 4). I love listening to people tell me about their lives, whether it’s a friend or acquaintance on the sofa across from me, or if its someone’s memoir or autobiography. Steve Martin […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Born Standing Up, comedy, Comics, faintingviolet, Standup, steve martin

faintingviolet's CBR8 Review No:67 · Genres: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction · Tags: Born Standing Up, comedy, Comics, faintingviolet, Standup, steve martin ·
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