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.
Moby by Jessa Kane
Not gonna lie, the whole reason I read this book is so I can share an embarrassing joke about myself. You may or may not be aware, but the only reason I’m not in debtors prison for spending all my money on books is because I belong to Kindle Unlimited. (Yes, I know you can’t go to jail for debt anymore – at least in America – but I wanted to make the nod to my fellow lovers of Regency romance.) That’s not the joke, […]
Lore Olympus Volume One by Rachel Smythe
Lore Olympus Volume 2 by Rachel Smythe
I got the first 2 books of the webtoon Lore Olympus out of the library based on the NPR best books list. It sounded right up my alley, a modern retelling of the story of Hades and Persephone. The art makes Olympus seem very sleek and modern, like Tokyo. Each of the big three and their children are a different color (their skin is that color.) Hades is blue, Zeus is purple and Poseidon is green. I call them the big three because they each […]
The Raven Scholar: Eternal Path Trilogy Book 1 by Antonia Hodgson
The Raven Scholar got a lot of great reviews in CBR17 so I downloaded it before the holidays and spent a COVID-filled Christmas reading it — one bright note in a somewhat icky season for my family. I already knew that my CBR18 was going to be filled with fantasy lit due to my new Robin Hobb obsession, but now I can add Antonia Hodgson’s trilogy to the list. I can’t wait to read book 2, whenever that comes out. The world where The Raven […]
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rating: 5 Stars In a nutshell: Palestinian poet and journalist El-Kurd shares his perspective on life in Palestine under colonial occupation. Best for: Anyone who cares about justice, freedom, and morality. Worth quoting: I underlined so much of this book, I’d basically be reproducing it here. But some passages that really stuck with me are: “The standard, across industries, is to dehumanize the Palestinian.” “We must not wait for Haaretz or the New York Times to arrive at the miraculous epiphanies we have long called […]
The Long Game by Rachel Reid
Look did I really mean to have this book be the first thing that I read in 2026 ? no. Was it sort of what I expected, which is to say average and a little bit clunky? yes. Did I however, end up reading this in one unbroken stretch from about 2:30 to 4:30 a.m.? yes, so check and mate Rachel Reid. I went back and forth for a little bit as to whether I wanted to read this book. I watched the show before […]
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott
Cold Fire by Kate Elliott
Cold Steel by Kate Elliott
This review is for emmalita. I haven’t been writing reviews in months due to life reasons but I wanted to share with her how awesome I found this trilogy. Instead of writing her a bunch of texts, I decided it was time to write a review. Emmalita introduced me to Kate Elliott with The Keeper’s Six. Earlier this year I devoured Elliott’s’ The Witch Roads and it got me wanting to explore her back catalog so I got the audiobook version of Cold Magic, book one […]
