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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Back to the orcs, rattkins, and elves!!

Brigands and Breadknives (Legends and Lattes #2) by Travis Baldree

March 24, 2026 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So this is book two in the Legends and Lattes universe. I read book 1 first (shocker!), and then book 0, and then book 2. This was definitely the correct order! We met Viv and Tandree in the first book, along with the rest of the Legends and Lattes crew. Then we traveled back in time to Viv meeting Fern. In this book, it’s about twenty years after Bookshops and Bonedust (Book 0), and Fern is travelling to Thune to open a bookshop next to […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: adventures, elves, legends, orcs, Travis Baldree

kfishgirl's CBR18 Review No:14 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: adventures, elves, legends, orcs, Travis Baldree ·
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Smashing the patriarchy is a brutal business

The Poet Empress: A Novel by Shen Tao

March 23, 2026 by ElCicco 4 Comments

I picked up this novel based on Narfna’s recommendation, and I’m glad I did. This is an intense fantasy novel about power, magic, literacy and women. And as Narfna says, it is NOT romantasy, no matter how it might be marketed. This is Shen Tao’s debut novel, and she warns readers that it contains violence, sexual abuse, and torture, and some of this involves children. It can be a lot but if you can handle it, it’s worth the ride. The Poet Empress is set […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr18, ElCicco, Fiction, Shen Tao, The Poet Empress

ElCicco's CBR18 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr18, ElCicco, Fiction, Shen Tao, The Poet Empress ·
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Where Lovecraft Meets Tradecraft

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

March 22, 2026 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Charlie Stross finished up The Laundry Files series earlier this year, so I decided I should do a bit of a re-read.  It’s been at least 15 years since I’ve read some of these, so I thought a little brush up couldn’t hurt.  But I have to mention something weird about my friends first; when I did a re-read of the Obernewtyn series a while back, I mentioned that I started reading them based off a friend’s recommendation. And this friend didn’t do me the […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: #fantasy, charles stross, crunchy and good with ketchup, Laundry Files, Lovecraftian horrors, novella, Satire ·, SysAdmin

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: #fantasy, charles stross, crunchy and good with ketchup, Laundry Files, Lovecraftian horrors, novella, Satire ·, SysAdmin ·
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Through a wizened glass

The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

March 22, 2026 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Wizard and Glass is number four in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and this is my second trip to the Tower. As a long Constant Reader, I always had mixed feelings about this book when I thought back on it. Most of the story takes place with Roland telling his ka-tet about his childhood and his first love, Susan, the girl in the window. It tells the story of three boys who are sent away, supposedly to keep them safe from being caught up in […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

Caesar's Wife's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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“Free speech may be part of the ideal of any revolution, but soon enough it becomes free speech only where the government approves of it.”

Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution #1) by Genevieve Cogman

March 22, 2026 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires, who are as usual, portrayed as rich and aristocratic (they’re blood-sucking leeches who also happen to be corpses; how is this not the White Trash Central group? Though yes, even without being vampiric they’d still be leeches; they are rich after all.) are the largest group to slake the guillotine’s thirst. Luckily for the 1%, The mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, a disguised British noble, and his League are heroically rescuing dozens of aristocrats from […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, History Tagged With: Genevieve Cogman, The French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel, vampires

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, History · Tags: Genevieve Cogman, The French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel, vampires ·
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“Yes, I suppose this will teach us all not to prioritize murder before drunkenness,” said I.

The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

March 21, 2026 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. (ain’t that the truth?) In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. And those human beings remain all too human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. Murderers still stalk the streets of this London too. But this London has […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: and his roommate, katherine addison, the great detective, victorian england, Wingfic

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: and his roommate, katherine addison, the great detective, victorian england, Wingfic ·
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