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“Just because a lady shared a deep, smoldering kiss with a gentleman didn’t mean that gentleman need be privy to all that lady’s business.”

Rules for Ruin by Mimi Matthews

May 1, 2026 by Malin Leave a Comment

Monthly Keyword 26: Ruin Official plot summary (because I read this in February): On the outskirts of London sits a seemingly innocuous institution with a secretive aim—train young women to distract, disrupt, and discredit the patriarchy. Outraged by a powerful politician’s systematic attack on women’s rights, the Academy summons its brightest—and most bitter—pupil to infiltrate the odious man’s inner circle. A deal is bring down the viscount, and Miss Euphemia Flite will finally earn her freedom. But betting shop owner Gabriel Royce has other plans. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: cbr18, feminism, friendship, historical romance, keyword 26, Malin, Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin, The Crinoline Academy, Victorian

Malin's CBR18 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: cbr18, feminism, friendship, historical romance, keyword 26, Malin, Mimi Matthews, Rules for Ruin, The Crinoline Academy, Victorian ·
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What do you want to do tonight, Kino? The same thing we do every night, Hermes… try to travel the world

Kino’s Journey: the Beautiful World by Iruka Shiimiya

April 30, 2026 by vega-table Leave a Comment

The manga Kino’s Journey: the Beautiful World is by Iruka Shiimiya. It’s based on the light novels by Keiichi Sigsawa. There have been two anime adaptations. This review is only for the manga, but if something from another version slips in, sorry. Kino is a professional tourist. Hermes is their motorrad, which means a sentient talking non-flying motorcycle. They visit countries. Kino stays for three days, preferably at a cheap motel with a hot shower, then leaves. The series is like a series of short […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Iruka Shiimiya

vega-table's CBR18 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Iruka Shiimiya ·
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Life – you gotta do it

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

Cannon by Lee Lai

April 30, 2026 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Lee Lai’s graphic novels Stone Fruit and Cannon are both about being queer Chinese women in North America. They’re about people and relationships and living lives that don’t really have beginning-middle-end stories. They just have yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Repeat. Stone Fruit – Why is it called that? I think it’s because stone fruit are soft and sweet. But if you continue eating blindly, they get hard and bitter. It’s such common knowledge that there’s a hard pit in the middle, no one will think […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Lee Lai

vega-table's CBR18 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Lee Lai ·
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This is what happens when we break book club rules

West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

April 30, 2026 by Sophia Leave a Comment

I read West With Giraffes (2021) by Lynda Rutledge because it was chosen by my book club. After reading some pretty bad books, we’ve made up a loose rule that you need to have read the book before nominating it for book club. Well, it didn’t happen this time. The husband of one of our book clubbers said it would be a good book for us. I think the majority of us would agree that it was not. I think I was most frustrated at what it […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Lynda Rutledge

Sophia's CBR18 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Lynda Rutledge ·
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“When someone describes a man as harmless, he ends up being a villain.”

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

April 30, 2026 by Malin 1 Comment

Dark Corner selection – February 26 Defeat the Goblin – The pebble book – a book that was gifted to you Monthly Keyword 26: Sun Nowhere Book Bingo 26: A book with multiple POVs Read the Rainbow: Black This is a book with a number of different POV characters. There is Serapio, a blind young man whom we first encounter as a child, being horribly mutilated by his mother (who subsequently throws herself off a building). All this horrific violence is to make him a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Religion Tagged With: #fantasy, between earth and sky, BIPOC, cbr18, emmalita, epic, gods, indigenous, keyword 26, LGBTQIA, Malin, Nowhere Bingo 26, pre-columbian, Rebecca Roanhorse, Religion, the Dark Corner

Malin's CBR18 Review No:21 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Religion · Tags: #fantasy, between earth and sky, BIPOC, cbr18, emmalita, epic, gods, indigenous, keyword 26, LGBTQIA, Malin, Nowhere Bingo 26, pre-columbian, Rebecca Roanhorse, Religion, the Dark Corner ·
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College Friends

So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder

April 29, 2026 by jeverett15 1 Comment

If I had to say something in it’s favor, I guess I’d tell you that I flew through Grant Ginder’s So Old, So Young, a novel about college friends that follows them from their days just after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania into their forties. Of course, that’s largely because of how insubstantial and weightless it is. The main characters are Mia (journalist), Marco (finance), Sasha (gallerist), Theo (lawyer), Adam (something, but mostly defined as “gay”), and Richie (also gay, but defined more frequently […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Grant Ginder

jeverett15's CBR18 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Grant Ginder ·
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