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Who Else Would Be Canny Enough to Try and Do Their World-Building Backwards?

Revenant Gun (Machineries of Empire III) by Yoon Ha Lee

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  Once again, I am going to try (perhaps unwisely) to review a book without reviewing its predecessors in the series! So be warned, I haven’t been able to do this without touching on some spoilers for earlier books. I guess this is what you get by making ´This Is The End’ a bingo square.   As far as authors go, Yoon Ha Lee can be a bit of a cruel master. The way he treats his readers throughout the earlier books in his Machineries of Empire series reminds me of one those bare-bones swimming instructors. You know, one of […]

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8/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman: The Circle by Gale Simone

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I found this on a list of the Best Wonder Woman comics. https://www.ranker.com/list/best-wonder-woman-comics-storylines/ranker-comics There are many such lists out there. The idea of reading a Wonder Woman comic written by a woman sounded good to me. I wanted to read some of her stories after seeing the amazing movie last year. The problem, of course, is she’s been a comics character since 1941! So every point you “jump into” has a giant back story you don’t know. Not to mention the fact that every 25 years or less there’s a “reboot” and you end up with alternate realities that undo […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Start your engines

The Princess and the Pit Stop by Tom Angelberger

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In The Princess and the Pit Stop the use of the different fairy tale characters is clever, but overall it is the race Vanellope of Wreck it Ralph entered with every “twisted fairy tale pun” possible. Yet, Tom Angelberger can be forgiven for that as the book is just plain funny and well done. It is perfect for the four to eight-year-old crowd. Clever illustrations of Dan Santat with his signature style and great colors help this book to be a more fun read. It is girl power at its finest. The Princes is in last place. So, what shall […]

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8/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:312 |

A New Classic? Maybe. A New Fun Read? Yes!

Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic by Armand Baltazar

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White Whale! Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic is the result if The Invention of Hugo Cabret meet Steampunk with “something else” that I cannot put my finger on. Armand Baltazar has mixed fantasy, realism and adventure that surrounds our hero Diego and his friends. When different times (past present and a little of the future) have clashed together causing a brand-new world, the different factions fight over to create their own order in this not always safe world. However, when five kids from different parts of this new world their adventures include fighting pirates, dinosaurs, World War Two […]

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8/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:311 |

#CBR10 Bingo: Listicles – A Million Junes

A Million Junes by Emily Henry

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#CBR10Bingo: Listicles. From FYA’s “Swoony YA books for your next Beach Vacation” From Goodreads: Romeo and Juliet meets One Hundred Years of Solitude in Emily Henry’s brilliant follow-up to The Love That Split the World, about the daughter and son of two long-feuding families who fall in love while trying to uncover the truth about the strange magic and harrowing curse that has plagued their bloodlines for generations.  In their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, the O’Donnells and the Angerts have mythic legacies. But for all the tall tales they weave, both founding families are tight-lipped about what caused the century-old rift between them, except […]

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8/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:59 |

I wouldn’t describe it as “historical fiction with a twist of lime”

The Guns of Ivrea by Clifford Beal

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When I set out to read this book I didn’t know it would qualify for the “And So It Begins” square on the CBR10 bingo card.  Happily for me that is a box now checked off, as this is book one in The Tales of Valdur series. The header of The Guns of Ivrea page on Clifford Beal’s site says, “Historical Fiction with a Twist of Lime”.  Historical fiction implies to me that you are taking historical people and events and writing your own interpretation of said events.  This book is not that.  There are sailing ships, historical clothing/armor/weapons, aristocracy and religious orders […]

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8/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

Underrepresented #CBR10 Bingo

The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang

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JY Yang is a queer, non-binary, post-colonial intersectional feminist. They live in Singapore. The Descent of Monsters is the third in JY Yang’s Tensorate Series. I reviewed the first two volumes earlier this year, and the third continues the riveting and ingenious story of a world where a very privileged few hold ultimate power and wield it with disregard, if not contempt, for the rest. While the first two volumes focus on the extraordinarily talented twin children of the supreme dictator known as the Protector, this third volume is told from the point of view of a lesser tensor, Sariman, […]

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8/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

If Wishes were books I’d have more than I do even now!

Cat Wishes by Calista Brill

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This is going to be my Delicious! Book. As the rules said that food had to mentioned. Just not what kind of food. And yes, food is mentioned. Granted it is food for a cat, but food nonetheless. Cat Wishes looks like it might be a whimsical poem, but it is a small story about a hungry cat who in the format of Aesop’s Lion and the Mouse, spares his snake dinner. And in the theme of many fairy and folktales the snake promises wishes to the cat. Of course, Cat does not believe in wishes. Still, he lets the […]

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8/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:306 |


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