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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.

 

Chuck Tingle writes another book you just have to experience for yourself.

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

August 13, 2025 by narfna 9 Comments

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I’ve been having such a hard time writing this review, and that’s because I know I need to re-read it in order to actually convey my thoughts. The second half of this book, listening to it felt like a fever dream, and I probably wasn’t paying as much attention to it as I should. And unfortunately, I think the second half is when the book is really crucial […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Featured, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: ARCs, audiobooks, chuck tingle, horror, Lucky Day, Mara Wilson, narfna

narfna's CBR17 Review No:27 · Genres: Audiobooks, Featured, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: ARCs, audiobooks, chuck tingle, horror, Lucky Day, Mara Wilson, narfna ·
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Cover of Sarah MacLean’s These Summer Storms

“I Notice You” Her whole life she tried hard not to be noticed, but it never felt as dangerous as it was when this man – all strong hands and set jaw – noticed her. As if she didn’t have enough mess to contend with.”

These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

August 13, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

Do you have any authors that you feel like, if you met them in real life, you’d just automatically be friends? Something about their voice, their tone, their sense of humor, the way their background characters lovingly put up with their stupid-ass, obviously-in-love-but-too-blind-to-see-it best friends : Just something about how they write hits you exactly right and you’re convinced, “Yes, this person and I are obviously simpatico, long-lost BFFs”? The author that most fits into that category for me is Sarah MacLean. Now, this may be […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbrbingo17, families, Romance, Sarah Maclean, These Summer Storms

NTE's CBR17 Review No:19 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbrbingo17, families, Romance, Sarah Maclean, These Summer Storms ·
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Cover of Jordan Rivet’s Rescue Me from Paradise

Would You Want to Survive the Apocalypse?

Rescue Me From Paradise by Jordan Rivet

August 9, 2025 by Ealbrecht Leave a Comment

This is the 4th book in the cohort series. This post will contain spoilers for the first three books.  After a meteor is tracked to hit planet Earth and kill off every living thing, the only solution is cryosleep. Citizens were randomly chosen to enter cryosleep and wake 200 years later to restart civilization. In the first three books of the series, we hear the stories from Joanna, Charlotte, and Josh’s perspectives.  We learn about the chaos that happened as the world was ending, and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Young Adult Tagged With: Jordan Rivet

Ealbrecht's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Featured, Young Adult · Tags: Jordan Rivet ·
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cover of the book Prince of Fortune by Lisa Tirreno

A Delightful Queer Romantasy

Prince of Fortune by Lisa Tirreno

August 4, 2025 by Kit Moonstar Leave a Comment

It has been foreseen many times that Prince Edmund is going to be a great king.  Which is a lot of pressure on a young man who’d rather spend his time with plants versus people.  He is a Prince of Fortune blessed with earth and weather magic and expected to great things.  Lord Aubrey Ainsley is a seer who barely qualifies as nobility.  Excited to experience court for the first time, neither he nor anyone else expected that he and Prince Edmund would become friends […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Lisa Tirreno

Kit Moonstar's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: cbr17bingo, Lisa Tirreno ·
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

1984 by George Orwell

August 4, 2025 by cheerbrarian 1 Comment

I don’t often reread books, the old adage of so little time, so many books ticking like a clock behind me. This is the book I have reread the most, at least 10 times at this point, and the book that I say is my favorite book of all time, depending on the audience. (My favorite book is really Lamb by Christopher Moore, but that is a fictional “what if” about the life of Jesus, that entire chunk that is missing in the Bible, and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: 1984, classics, dystopia, George Orwell, politics

cheerbrarian's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: 1984, classics, dystopia, George Orwell, politics ·
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Cozy romantasy in which game night is the wildest part

Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne

August 3, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 3: TBR I recently saw book four in the tetralogy at an airport bookstore, and realized that I still had book 3 on my TBR shelf (literally, physical book on actual shelf). Tea You at the Altar is book 3 of the Tomes and Tea series, and like the two previous volumes is a cozy romantasy. Kind of fitting actually, since I’m pretty sure I picked up book 1 in an airport as well. This time, the story is less about the tea and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, LGBTQ romance, Rebecca Thorne, Romance, romantasy, tea you at the altar, tomes and tea

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:36 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, LGBTQ romance, Rebecca Thorne, Romance, romantasy, tea you at the altar, tomes and tea ·
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