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“We’re meant to go. We’re not meant to stay forever.”

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

January 3, 2019 by esme 4 Comments

Holiday reading is my favorite, and I was fortunate to have a rip-roaring book to tear through this holiday. I was also pleased, per the title of this post, that it ended and it will not continue as a duology or trilogy. Naomi Novik developed an imaginative world populated with  interesting characters and an engaging story. I’m quite sure the characters continued living their lives after I closed the book, but I am also happy that all necessary loose ends were wrapped up so satisfactorily. Briefly, Agnieszka […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, magic, Naomi novik

esme's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, magic, Naomi novik ·
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Get your red hot love-bot here

Robot in Love by T. L. McBeth

January 3, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Another Valentine’s Day book review with a few spoilers. Robot in Love looks like it might be a modern fairy tale. There is a Cinderella like robot on the cover and why not? However, it does turn into a story more about tolerance to love. The robot sees the loveliest creature for afar. As you go along, you learn they are shiny. The most lovely thing they have seen. And, of course, the robot is too shy to talk to her. The illustrations do show […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Emotions & Feelings, Love, robots, Social Themes, T. L. McBeth, Valentine's Day

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Emotions & Feelings, Love, robots, Social Themes, T. L. McBeth, Valentine's Day ·
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Magically Disturbed

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman

January 3, 2019 by Ale 5 Comments

For years I’ve had issues with short story collections. The whipping from one plot to another so quickly makes my brain feel like it’s on a very shaky roller coaster. But it’s the genre my mentor most likes to teach, so I’ve found myself reading a lot of it lately. Thanks to his patience, I have a newfound understanding of the short story, and decided to start off the year by revisiting the first short story collection I ever finished, Neil Gaiman’s “Smoke and Mirrors.” […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Fairy Tales, illusion, magic, Neil Gaiman, short stories, Smoke and Mirrors, the uncanny

Ale's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Fairy Tales, illusion, magic, Neil Gaiman, short stories, Smoke and Mirrors, the uncanny ·
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I spent New Year’s Day in Hogwarts.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

January 2, 2019 by narfna 14 Comments

First of all I have read this book more times than I can count, literally. I know I’ve read this first one at least twelve times because that’s how many copies of it I own, but that is a gross underestimate because many of those copies I have read multiple times (especially the battered paperback I still have from 1999). I also used to re-read every year, and every time a new book in the series came out, so I’ve read this one the most. My OCD […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, British, children's lit, favorites, Harry Potter, harry potter and the philosopher's stone, J.K. Rowling, narfna, re-reads

narfna's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, British, children's lit, favorites, Harry Potter, harry potter and the philosopher's stone, J.K. Rowling, narfna, re-reads ·
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Muskets and magic, and females in disguise, oh my!

December 31, 2018 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

The Thousand Names has sat on my 2013 TBR shelf for five years now.  Each time I would pick it up I would go, “Eh” and set it back down.  There wasn’t any real reason for my dislike.  My husband had read this and two subsequent books and liked them all.  But for some reason each time I picked it up and the knowledge that it was in part about a colonial like military campaign would give me pause and back on the shelf it […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, Django Wexler, Dome'Loki, fantasy, Fiction

Dome'Loki's CBR10 Review No:53 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, Django Wexler, Dome'Loki, fantasy, Fiction ·
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This series is just so atmospheric.

The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2) by Katherine Arden

December 31, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

I need to remember when it comes time to read #3 in this series that I will need at least a week to get through it. Arden’s writing is lovely and her story fascinating and absorbing, but I find it stressful as hell, and I kept having to put it down before I could keep going again. Basically every bad thing that can happen, does. (But by the end, you get a nice sense of resolution, which is necessary because of all the previously mentioned […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, History Tagged With: fantasy, historical fantasy, Katherine Arden, narfna, russian folk tales, The Girl in the Tower, the winternight trilogy

narfna's CBR10 Review No:170 · Genres: Fantasy, History · Tags: fantasy, historical fantasy, Katherine Arden, narfna, russian folk tales, The Girl in the Tower, the winternight trilogy ·
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