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I understand less than half the words in that sentence, but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

January 27, 2026 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“Are you going to be sick?” I raise my head. The duke is gone, but Helena is on the window seat, twisting her necklace around her fingers. I don’t answer, because I don’t believe a prisoner owes his captors any sort of report on his health. That, and if I’m going to be sick, I’d prefer to do it all over her, and I’d prefer it to be a stealth attack. ― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue On paper, Henry “Monty” […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: 1700s, chronic illness, english gentry, gay romance, Lords and Ladies, mackenzi lee, piracy, pirates, queer romance, Racism, road trip romance

carmelpie's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: 1700s, chronic illness, english gentry, gay romance, Lords and Ladies, mackenzi lee, piracy, pirates, queer romance, Racism, road trip romance ·
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Fake It ‘Til You Make It, Then Keep Faking It

Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham

January 27, 2026 by lafocareta Leave a Comment

When your mayor declares a state of emergency, and you get a rare snow day, it’s time for an old-school reading aesthetic. Hot tea? Check. Cozy blanket? Check. Minor classic that’s been sitting on your TBR for the past three years? Check. “Stage Door Theatre Breaks in London” by AndyRobertsPhotos is licensed under CC BY 2.0 . I wasn’t terribly interested in Maugham until I read a fictionalized version of him in Tang Twan Eng’s The House of Doors, which had me idly googling to learn […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: British Classics, W. Somerset Maugham

lafocareta's CBR18 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: British Classics, W. Somerset Maugham ·
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This hasn’t helped me decide on the value of prequels

La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

January 27, 2026 by matt_thac 1 Comment

I was inspired to read this book following Classic’s review of The Rose Field (scathing though it was). I have appreciated the His Dark Materials trilogy for a while, although I find the criticism of a very Christian normative form of organised religion hits differently from an Islamic perspective. The ideas of a authoritarian church-state read differently from a religious perspective where faith and society are enmeshed alternatively. I’ve not really been tempted to read the prequel books as I always find the liminal space […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Philip Pullman, prequel

matt_thac's CBR18 Review No:17 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Philip Pullman, prequel ·
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The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware

The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware

January 27, 2026 by Classic 2 Comments

I don’t know how this ended up being worse than the first book in the Lo Blacklock series, but it definitely was. Ruth Ware has mostly missed books for me, but I was curious how she would follow up to The Woman in Cabin #10. I wish I had just told myself to stop being nosy and picked another book. All in all, none of this makes sense except Lo has to be the most naive and just flat out Too Stupid to Live (TSTL) character […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Lo Blacklock #2, Ruth Ware, The Woman in Suite 11

Classic's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Lo Blacklock #2, Ruth Ware, The Woman in Suite 11 ·
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Writing as therapy: the latest Dresden Files novel

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

January 27, 2026 by kittenkong42 8 Comments

The publication gap between Battle Ground and the new book Twelve Months has been over 5 years, the longest in this series. The back-to-back of Peace Talks and Battle Ground left Harry Dresden in a bad place, and from reading that – and now Twelve Months – it was clear to me that Jim Butcher didn’t appear to be in a good place either. That’s proved true as he’s spoken about his depression, and a divorce that left him struggling – but also not in such a bad […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: Dresden Files, fae, Jim Butcher, Urban Fantasy, vampires

kittenkong42's CBR18 Review No:2 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: Dresden Files, fae, Jim Butcher, Urban Fantasy, vampires ·
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: Wow. Wowwowwow.

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

January 26, 2026 by beereadsbooks 9 Comments

For quite a few years now, I have been avoiding reading things that cover truly difficult material. The world is hard and weird, and I have preferred to read “lighter” stories as a way to escape, to feel the joys with out the lows. This self-preservationist approach to choosing reading material has led me further down the road of comfy, cozy reads which are lovely, but there are never real stakes. I think I have begun to notice that choosing books which do not have […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, pirates, Shannon Chakraborty

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, pirates, Shannon Chakraborty ·
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