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“Bad Llama. Level 3. It’s a llama, but it’s bad. If he were human, he’d be covered in prison tattoos and would be hanging out in front of the Circle K hitting on 14-year-old girls.”

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

August 3, 2025 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Rec’d (I honestly don’t know how many people have raved about this book, on CBR, other review sites on the internet, as well as in my IRL book club) By now, most people who are even vaguely interested in this series probably know what it’s about, but I’ll try to give a brief summary. Carl is wandering around, half-dressed in the snow, looking for his ex-girlfriend’s prize-winning Persian cat, when Earth is suddenly attacked by aliens. All the buildings collapse in an instant […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, audiobook, Cats, cbr17, cbr17bingo, Dungeon crawler Carl, Dystopian, funny, games, Jeff Hayes, LitRPG, Malin, Matt Dinniman, rec'd

Malin's CBR17 Review No:44 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, audiobook, Cats, cbr17, cbr17bingo, Dungeon crawler Carl, Dystopian, funny, games, Jeff Hayes, LitRPG, Malin, Matt Dinniman, rec'd ·
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“The Caravan of life is moving by, Quick! to your places in the passing show.”

Caravan by Dorothy Gilman

August 3, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Culture – Caressa encounters and immerses herself in multiple cultures during her wanderings through the Sahara, including the Tuareg and the Hausa. By the age of sixteen Caressa has been a carnie, a Boston schoolgirl, and the wife of an anthropologist – but in her years in the Sahara desert, she will go on to become a widow, a sorceress, a slave, and much more. The trouble with this book is that the description is rather misleading. There’s a little magic, and a […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: adventure, Africa, cbr17bingo, Dorothy Gilman, historical, historical fiction, paranormal

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:42 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: adventure, Africa, cbr17bingo, Dorothy Gilman, historical, historical fiction, paranormal ·
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A new Lucy Parker romance with actors falling for each other

Misdirected by Lucy Parker

August 2, 2025 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Work (Actors on set – and in private) I read this book at the end of March, and as such, I’m going to rely on the official plot summary to help me out here: Hattie Murton never dreamed of TV stardom. A straight-from-a-fairytale encounter with a casting agent somehow landed her a part on what she’d thought would be a one-off pilot for Leicester Square, a bodice-ripping drama adapted from a bestselling romance novel. Buoyed by a surge in demand for romantic dramas, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: actors, Audible, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, Contemporary Romance, Gwylim Lee, Lucy Parker, Misdirected, Nicola Coughlan, TV series, work

Malin's CBR17 Review No:43 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: actors, Audible, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, Contemporary Romance, Gwylim Lee, Lucy Parker, Misdirected, Nicola Coughlan, TV series, work ·
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Cover of Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo

Surviving is an act of resistance!

Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo

July 31, 2025 by LB Leave a Comment

This book fulfills the “border” square on CBR17 bingo; Sofia exists on the border of conquered and conqueror, and explores the complexities of her mixed heritage. As soon as I saw the cover for Beasts of Carnaval, I knew I wanted to read it, and the synopsis just cemented it for me. I love stories that are about resistance and revolution and proving that the colonizers and oppressors won’t be the last ones standing. And this delivers so beautifully! Sofia’s twin brother, Sol, vanished to […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: beasts of Carnaval, cbr17bingo, colonization, enslavement, historical fantasy, no romance, puerto rico, queer lit, queer secondary characters, revolution, Rosalia rodrigo

LB's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: beasts of Carnaval, cbr17bingo, colonization, enslavement, historical fantasy, no romance, puerto rico, queer lit, queer secondary characters, revolution, Rosalia rodrigo ·
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“My passengers. I decide, then and there, to love them. I’ve never loved before. Love is not a standard component of my programming. ” CBRBINGO – ‘O’

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

July 31, 2025 by narfna 1 Comment

Thanks to NetGalley, Dreamscape Media & Dreamscape Lore, Bindery Books, and Ezeekat Press for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I had a great time with this weird little genre-bender. I love books where the author was like, should I do mystery? Romance? Paranormal? Horror? Sci-fi? Why not all?? Indeed. Why not all. Our two main characters are ship’s AI’s, the navigator, and the ship’s doctor. Demeter is the ship’s name, and when the book starts she’s just a normal ship, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, audiobooks, Barbara Truelove, cbr17bingo, genrebenders, LGBTQIA, narfna, Of Monsters and Mainframes, paranormal, sci-fi

narfna's CBR17 Review No:24 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, audiobooks, Barbara Truelove, cbr17bingo, genrebenders, LGBTQIA, narfna, Of Monsters and Mainframes, paranormal, sci-fi ·
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“Day 1,361 of My Captivity . . . ” CBRBINGO – Rec’d

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

July 29, 2025 by narfna Leave a Comment

I tried to read this last year? The year before? And couldn’t bring myself to get very far, for whatever reason. But recently I was working on a reading vlog where I was only going to read books with animal narrators, and I thought it might be a good time to try this book again. It stuck this time! Remarkably Bright Creatures follows three main narrators: Tova, a widow whose son also died when he was seventeen, who is now a janitor at an aquarium; […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Fiction, narfna, Octopus, remarkably bright creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

narfna's CBR17 Review No:22 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Fiction, narfna, Octopus, remarkably bright creatures, Shelby Van Pelt ·
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