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“The Next Right Thing”

Gigs by Mark Mosedale and Si Smith

June 5, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Right now, I really dislike Mark Mosedale, Si Smith,Top Shelf Productions, and the person who sent me the reader’s copy of Gigs by Smosedale and illustrated by Smith. I dislike you because you made me feel all the emotions at once. You made me unable to put my reader copy down. You made me want to finish before it comes out mid-June 2026 so I can get it on release day, stand at the front doors and tell customers, “You ain’t leaving until you buy […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: capitalism, coming-of-age, cyberpunk, Dystopian, enviroment, family, LGBTQ, Mark Mosedale, Mark Mosedale and Si Smith, Si Smith, siblings, Social Themes, Social Topics

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:163 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: capitalism, coming-of-age, cyberpunk, Dystopian, enviroment, family, LGBTQ, Mark Mosedale, Mark Mosedale and Si Smith, Si Smith, siblings, Social Themes, Social Topics ·
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Up up and sorry please go away….

Super Roomies: Lake of Slime: A Star Chapter Book by Jarrett Lerner

June 5, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I found a book that happens to be by the author and illustrator Jarrett Lerner that I was not the audience for and therefore, I am not a fan of. Please don’t get me wrong, I appreciate and admire the time and effort that goes into creating any book, in fact, I’m envious as I couldn’t begin to know where to start to do what authors do. It’s just not a book for me. That does not mean I’ll stop reading Lerner, far from it. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery Tagged With: friendship, Jarrett Lerner, roommates, Social Themes, superheroes

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:161 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery · Tags: friendship, Jarrett Lerner, roommates, Social Themes, superheroes ·
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When Lovecraft… goes Hillsong?

The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross

June 4, 2026 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Still making my way through the re-read of the Laundry files novels and I’ve hit on one of my favorites. The Apocalypse Codex is set nearly a year ofter the events of The Fuller Memorandum, and poor Bob is still sort of in recovery. It’s not just the whole business of receiving a bit of a soul-shellacking from the Black Pharaoh, which seems obvious from the last book. But it’s also the absolute shock he received from work, who have made their intentions to compress […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: #fantasy, charles stross, crunchy and good with ketchup, Cymothoa exigua - look that shit up!, Laundry, Laundry Files, Lovecraftian horrors, Satire, Sing the revelation, SysAdmin

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: #fantasy, charles stross, crunchy and good with ketchup, Cymothoa exigua - look that shit up!, Laundry, Laundry Files, Lovecraftian horrors, Satire, Sing the revelation, SysAdmin ·
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A promising debut cozy fantasy romance that didn’t quite fully hit.

Letters from the Last Apothecary by Bita Behzadi

June 3, 2026 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House | Hay House LLC for the Audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. This is a promising debut by Bita Behzadi, and I will be reading further books from her, but this one had some issues that mean I can’t give it a full four stars. Mostly, I had a really hard time both getting in to the story, and caring about the characters. It took about 33% for the first, and about 60% for […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, ARCs, audiobooks, Bita Behzadi, cozy, cozy fantasy, fantasy romance, historical fantasy, Letters from the Last Apothecary, m/f, narfna, Romance

narfna's CBR18 Review No:17 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, ARCs, audiobooks, Bita Behzadi, cozy, cozy fantasy, fantasy romance, historical fantasy, Letters from the Last Apothecary, m/f, narfna, Romance ·
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A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

June 3, 2026 by Classic 5 Comments

I really wanted to love this one, but it ended up not working out for me. That does not mean I won’t be reading this author again in the future. This book showed a lot of promise, it just kept hampered I think by Mandanna not breaking this up into two novels. I really wanted to know more about Sera’s upbringing by her aunt and the Guild and spells she learned. Instead we in essence start the book mid-scene with people and places that don’t […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, Sangu Mandanna

Classic's CBR18 Review No:45 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, Sangu Mandanna ·
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“Age would have taken her if they’d just had the sense to leave well enough alone.”

Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence

June 3, 2026 by LittlePlat 3 Comments

More fantasy with older protagonists please! With Daughter of Crows, Mark Lawrence is giving us a new trilogy—one that is not meant to be tied back to his previous works. Despite this, I thought we might end up covering some old ground when I first read the synopsis: a magical academy that exists to train young women to become killers? Doesn’t that sound an awful lot like his Book of the Ancestor series? Thankfully, this turned out not to be the case; the two stories […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy with older protagonists, grim dark, Mark Lawrence

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy with older protagonists, grim dark, Mark Lawrence ·
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