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Featured Review Archive

These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

A book to read in bed

Cockroach and Other Stories by Jane Cornes Maclean

July 24, 2023 by Merryn 2 Comments

Bingo:  You are here – the author lives in my city and my friend circle.  Jane calls this collection of short stories ficto-memoir, created by slicing off little pieces of her life and frying them up in the spice of fiction to make something delicious.   Within the span of twenty-one tales, some don’t stray far from the woman I know, an Englishwoman who has lived in Australia most of her life, a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter, who looks at life with insight, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Short Stories Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, Jane Cornes Maclean

Merryn's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Featured, Short Stories · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, Jane Cornes Maclean ·
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How Many Warm Beverage-Centric Books Can One Woman Read in 2023?

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

July 23, 2023 by anana 1 Comment

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree has been all over Cannonball Read the past couple of years, and given my penchant for comforting reads involving warm beverages, I knew that there was a good chance I would love it. Spoiler alert: I did! The story opens as Viv, an orc who is a ferocious and skilled warrior-for-hire, finishes up her final job and marches away from her crew. Following her heart and a spell, Viv finds the perfect spot to start putting down roots – […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction Tagged With: Travis Baldree

anana's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction · Tags: Travis Baldree ·
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Maybe not all things need to be published

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman

July 23, 2023 by Carriejay 15 Comments

Bingo square: You Are Here (Library book) Alan Rickman was a wonderful actor, in some of my favourite films. Die Hard, of course, his first film role. But also Galaxy Quest, Sense & Sensibility. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He kept diaries for many years, and after his death from pancreatic cancer in 2016, they were published. They are often short entries, notes on where he is, what he’s doing, who he’s with. Often on a plane, battling jetlag, on to the next piece of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alan Rickman, cbr15bingo

Carriejay's CBR15 Review No:20 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alan Rickman, cbr15bingo ·
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· 15 Comments

Love Triumphant and a bit with a dog

The Anti-Hero by Sara Cate

July 17, 2023 by katie71483 2 Comments

Okay, so, some of you may remember that I reviewed Purity by Skyler Mason several months ago and that I was… not impressed. Purity was supposed to be spicy romance about someone who was recovering from growing up in purity culture. It wasn’t particularly romantic or sexy or spicy or even a good deconstruction* (see definition below) journey.    Today, I stumbled upon The Anti-Hero by Sara Cate. It is everything that Purity’s author wanted that book to be, but on steroids. It is filled […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Religion, Romance Tagged With: purity, purity culture, religious deconstruction, Sara Cate, Skyler Mason, spicy romance

katie71483's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Religion, Romance · Tags: purity, purity culture, religious deconstruction, Sara Cate, Skyler Mason, spicy romance ·
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“But Gideon was experiencing one powerful emotion: being sick of everyone’s shit.”

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir

July 17, 2023 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

I write this review with a heavy heart. I know how much many of my Cannonball Read peeps loved this book/series and I waited a long time to get it from the library, with eager anticipation. I really really wanted to love it too, and I just didn’t. This story was filled with unique and interesting characters, the book was infused with great humor, and Muir has created an amazing world, but it’s just not my vibe. My hero Amy Poehler taught me the phrase, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Science Fiction Tagged With: gideon the ninth, tamsyn muir

cheerbrarian's CBR15 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Science Fiction · Tags: gideon the ninth, tamsyn muir ·
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It’s Her, Fern Brady

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

July 16, 2023 by jeverett15 1 Comment

The British panel show Taskmaster has enriched my life in so many ways. Every season, a group of five comedians compete for the Taskmaster’s approval in a series of preposterous little games designed to test both their lateral thinking skills and their willingness to look ridiculous on television. One of the contestants in Series 14 of the show was Scottish comedian Fern Brady, who I’d previously seen on a few other shows but had not made much of an impression. On Taskmaster, however, she was […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured Tagged With: Fern Brady

jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:30 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured · Tags: Fern Brady ·
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