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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.

 

“There are so many ways to tell it, and all of them are important. But each way paints a very different picture and leads down a different road.”

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

June 8, 2025 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

Like many of my millennial siblings I partake in quite a bit of true crime content. Over the years it’s become important to me that the content I consume is doing the work of being ethical in how it portrays the victims and their loved ones. I’m not here for tragedy porn, I’m here because the hows and whys of human interaction fascinate me and sometimes those interactions are negative.    Which is perhaps why Lay Them to Rest found its way onto my to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cold cases, forensic science, history of forensics, John and Jane Does, Laurah Norton, Lay Them to Rest, true crime

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:17 · Genres: Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: cold cases, forensic science, history of forensics, John and Jane Does, Laurah Norton, Lay Them to Rest, true crime ·
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Getting caught up on unreviewed books from last year

The Hustler by Walter Tevis

Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

June 7, 2025 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

My world fell apart last November with the election of Donald Trump, and I’m still trying to put the pieces back together. Nothing literal (lucky me). I’ve just spent the past few months detached from….everything outside of my personal bubble. I’m getting back to normal, though. No less angry – but better able to be a part of the world, I guess. Unfortunately, reading has been one of the things that has fallen by the wayside. I haven’t had the mental energy to read and […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Western Tagged With: Durian Sukegawa, J.R.R. Tolkien, Larry McMurtry, Walter Tevis

ingres77's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Western · Tags: Durian Sukegawa, J.R.R. Tolkien, Larry McMurtry, Walter Tevis ·
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“Had me in the first half, I’m not going to lie..”

Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long

Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long

Since the Surrender by Julie Anne Long

I Kissed An Earl by Julie Anne Long

What I Did for A Duke by Julie Anne Long

May 30, 2025 by NTE 3 Comments

Making my way through the Pennyroyal Green series by Julie Anne Long, but dependent upon the library, so, while I’ve read these all this year, they weren’t exactly in order.  Luckily, I’ve been keeping notes. Now that the top five are covered, I figured I’d put out this half of the reviews. Spoilers abound! Perils of Pleasure – Colin Eversea is trouble – but it’s rogue-ish trouble, typically – And yet, we find our hero headed for the hangman’s noose, literally, about to hang for a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: I Kissed An Earl, Julie Anne Long, Like No Other, Pennyroyal Green, Perils of Pleasure Lover, Since the Surrender, What I Did for a Duke

NTE's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Romance · Tags: I Kissed An Earl, Julie Anne Long, Like No Other, Pennyroyal Green, Perils of Pleasure Lover, Since the Surrender, What I Did for a Duke ·
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Obama told me to read it

The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

May 27, 2025 by Sophia 3 Comments

I read The Anthropologists (2024) by Ayşegül Savaş solely because Barack Obama put it on his Favorite Books List. Although Obama and I don’t have exactly the same taste in books, I appreciate that his choices are always well written and thought provoking. The Anthropologists is a short, quiet novel that centers around a young couple in New York City. The two are looking to buy their first home together. Asya first came to the United States to go to college, where she met her husband, Manu. Manu was […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: Ayşegül Savaş

Sophia's CBR17 Review No:9 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: Ayşegül Savaş ·
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A hopeful future with robots and food

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

May 27, 2025 by LB 1 Comment

If you need a story of chosen family and hope and good food, Automatic Noodle absolutely fits the bill. This is a delightful novella of a near-future where California has split from the United States after war, and part of California progressiveness was to give civil rights to human equivalent embodied intelligence (HEEI) robots. But those rights are limited – they’re not able to use a bank, own property, and there’s lots of prejudice against robots (very allegorical to American attitudes towards immigrants and marginalized […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #food, Annalee Newitz, friendship, near future, noodles, novella, queer, Romance, San Francisco, tor publishing, trans

LB's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #food, Annalee Newitz, friendship, near future, noodles, novella, queer, Romance, San Francisco, tor publishing, trans ·
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Cover of Jackson Wilder Adventures V2

Calvin and Hobbes or Jackson and Irwin adventures?

Jackson's Wilder Adventures V02 Dentistry and Dreams, by Sarah Davidson

May 27, 2025 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

I found a series awhile back that I thought was one of the best I had read. It was Jackson’s Wilder Adventures by Sarah Davidson. It was clever and unique. A young boy, Jackson, and his Calvin and Hobbesesque Hobbes, called Irwin the Thylacine, were the perfect narrators. Davidson mixed time travel in a Dr. Who manner with fun educational facts. Granted, there is no actual Tardis (and/or fill in your favorite doctor), just an old cardboard box, but the adventures were as fun. We […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: adventure, animals, earth science, Environment, exploration, friendship, Gulf of Mexico, Japan, nature, Sarah Davidson, Social Themes, travel

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:262 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: adventure, animals, earth science, Environment, exploration, friendship, Gulf of Mexico, Japan, nature, Sarah Davidson, Social Themes, travel ·
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