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Toxic Air

the_atmospherians by Isle McElroy

January 7, 2022 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

 At times, this seems like a somewhat simple book about a disgraced influencer who starts a cult with her childhood best friend. When you step away from it and look at the balancing act McElroy pulled off though, you realize they pulled off the ultimate achievement of making something difficult look easy. McElroy throws so many balls in the air and keeps juggling, successfully introducing challenging and difficult elements to make this tight-rope walk of a book work. The book begins with Sasha, a disgraced […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cults, Isle McElroy, magical realism

Claire Badger's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cults, Isle McElroy, magical realism ·
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Slight prequel to Cormac Reilly series

The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan

January 7, 2022 by Merryn Leave a Comment

This prequel to Dervla McTiernan’s Cormac Reilly series takes us back to the beginning of Carrie Ryan’s career, when she was a keen young constable striving to break into the detective boys’ club.  Carrie is diligent, with excellent investigative instincts and people skills, but she is beginning to realise that this may be less useful in building a career than being accepted as one of the lads. Carrie shares a small studio apartment with her sister Aifric, a junior barrister who has yet to build […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, crime, dervla mctiernan

Merryn's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: cbr14, crime, dervla mctiernan ·
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Tool of War

Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi

January 7, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The first book in this series, Ship Breaker, opens in such a way that only a tiny sliver of the world the book inhabitats is available to the reader. This is mostly because of the narrative perspective employed. It’s very close third person, and we only slowly begin to understand different things about the world. The second book feels like more of the same, except we split the narration among a few characters, still in third, and the world feels quite a bit bigger. This […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Paolo Bacigalupi

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Paolo Bacigalupi ·
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King Leopold

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

January 7, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Hochschild begins this history with a recalling of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It would be impossible not to. For most people in the world, if they know anything about the slave trade, enforced labor, and violent atrocities that happened in the Congo under the reign of King Leopold of Beligum and then the Belgian government, they primarily know about it because of Conrad’s book. Conrad’s book occupies a tense space in English literature for a few reasons. One, his language, his ideology, and his […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: adam hochschild, Joseph Conrad

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: adam hochschild, Joseph Conrad ·
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A story about people who make mistakes, and how they can come back from them.

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

January 7, 2022 by kniki 5 Comments

I had never heard of this author or book until my son gifted Anxious People to me for my birthday last month. I feel bad now that I didn’t read it straight away – I didn’t even read it before the book I got for Christmas – it is such a great novel. And coincidentally it’s coming out as a movie on one of the streaming services. The story starts with a bank robbery that kind of accidentally turns into a hostage situation, landing a […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: Fredrik Backman

kniki's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: Fredrik Backman ·
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A Stupendously Traumatic Story of Terrible People

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

January 6, 2022 by ingres77 2 Comments

I came across this book when I saw LurkeyTurkey‘s review back in December. Anything being described as “a kick in the teeth” is going to intrigue me, if nothing else. I’m so thankful that this review is spoiler-free, because I went into this book not really knowing anything about it, and I think that was the best way to experience this story. Thanks, LurkeyTurkey! For what it’s worth, synopses I’ve seen of the book give much of it away. So be forewarned. This book takes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

ingres77's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife ·
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