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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Finally Done and Good Riddance

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

March 30, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The final twist was stupid, the villain defeat was stupid and anti-climactic, the temporary (mostly) bad things that were done to certain heroes I’ve seen elsewhere in more interesting ways/effects, so very little actually seems to happen, and a lot of the backstory isn’t even all that interesting, although it does explain a lot about certain characters. No one even gets to do anything interestingly heroic here; the personal/self-sacrificial stuff in the final confrontation isn’t even that sympathetic. The prologues and epilogues don’t even add […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, nyt best seller, Ruin and Rising, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, nyt best seller, Ruin and Rising, YA ·
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We have become a place of long weeping

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

March 29, 2022 by Emmalita 6 Comments

Black Sun is one of those books that for some reason I don’t read because I know I will really like it. And then I finally read it and I’m mad at myself both for not reading it sooner and also for having read it at all because now I’ll never read it again for the first time. My brain is a weird place. I have an arc of Fevered Star, which has driven me to finally breaking the glass on Black Sun. I listened […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: between earth and sky, black sun, Cara Gee, Kaipo Schwab, Nicole Lewis, Rebecca Roanhorse, Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: between earth and sky, black sun, Cara Gee, Kaipo Schwab, Nicole Lewis, Rebecca Roanhorse, Shaun Taylor-Corbett ·
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Meh in the Middle

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

March 29, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Siege and Storm is better than Shadow and Bone for one reason: Nikolai Lantsov and Sturmhond. There is a lot less of Alina and the Darkling, although both do appear, and that’s not a bad thing. That part of the story shouldn’t really be the focus anyways, given how much Alina keeps focusing on one objective, first learn how to Grisha, then get away from Darkling while trying to find the sea snake/ice dragon and then fire-bird (and that quest is barely even mentioned)/maybe become […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, coming-of-age, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, coming-of-age, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm, YA ·
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The book "A Marvellous Light" by Freya Marske standing next to a pot of daffodils, hyacinths, and tulips.

Elegantly written Edwardian fantasy, murder mystery, gay romance

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

March 29, 2022 by Dome'Loki 1 Comment

First of all, Thank you, again, llamareadbooks for gifting me this book in the Cannonball Book Exchange!  A book that combines several genres I enjoy was almost guaranteed to be a hit but it is the beautiful writing that makes this such a wonderful read. You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips.  You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house.  I’d like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you to stop talking about […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: cbr14, Dome'Loki, Freya Marske, gay, gay romance, historical fiction

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: cbr14, Dome'Loki, Freya Marske, gay, gay romance, historical fiction ·
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My conflicted thoughts about SJM continue to be conflicted.

House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1) by Sarah J. Maas

March 29, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I’ve gotta say, this is related and unrelated to this book, I’ve been seeing quite a few status updates on Goodreads (the vast majority from people I don’t follow) expressing pretty negative and dismissive opinions about romance and people who read romance that seem borderline misogynistic to me. There’s an attitude there that because they don’t read romance or fantasy romance (or whatever romance) they are better, smarter, more elevated than those who do. This is bullshit, and it is unkind. I would highly suggest […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, Crescent City, House of Earth and Blood, sarah j maas, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, Crescent City, House of Earth and Blood, sarah j maas, Urban Fantasy ·
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A voyage of outcasts.

Dragon Haven (The Rain Wild Chronicles, #2) by Robin Hobb

March 29, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Ultimately, I decided not to round up on this one because this book (and this series so far) just doesn’t cut as deep as previous Hobb books have for me, though it made some really good progress on that, hence the 4.5 star rating. This is basically part two in what should have been one book, but was split into two for various reasons. This provided all the fulfillment I felt lacked after finishing the first book, and this book is actually where we start […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, dragon haven, dragons, epic fantasy, robin hobb, the rain wild chronicles

narfna's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, dragon haven, dragons, epic fantasy, robin hobb, the rain wild chronicles ·
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