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While You Were Seething

“How is a brussels sprout concentrated?” “Well, it’s basically a really intense cabbage.”

While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein

April 14, 2026 by Emmalita 2 Comments

This is going to be a challenging review to write because the emotional payoff in the end is the part I want to write about. I loved it so much. Reading While You Were Seething is like watching a volcano. You see the pressure growing, the little bursts where Daisy and Caleb reveal more of their interiors to each other. And then at 90% I’m sobbing because the cathartic eruption has happened and Charlotte Stein has given Daisy the words to say how I feel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Charlotte Stein, While You Were Seething

Emmalita's CBR18 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Charlotte Stein, While You Were Seething ·
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Underwhelming and Emotionally Manipulative

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

April 14, 2026 by Tracy Leave a Comment

I had high expectations for this book and was significantly underwhelmed by the execution. The main character is Zelu, a paraplegic Nigerian-American writer. Not long after the book starts, she loses her job, and her literary fiction novel is rejected yet again. She decides to write a new book, a science fiction novel that becomes a runaway success. Chapters of that book, entitled Rusted Robots, are interspersed with chapters of the main novel. Where do I start? The overall description of the novel appealed to me, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: book within a book, literary sci-fi, Nnedi Okorafor

Tracy's CBR18 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: book within a book, literary sci-fi, Nnedi Okorafor ·
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Battle Angel

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

April 13, 2026 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

After a battle, an American WWI unit is perturbed by an awful shrieking coming from the middle of the field. The commander sends five of his most expendable soldiers out to “take care” of the problem, which they all understand means they are to go find the dying soldier and put him out of his misery. But when Private Bagger, an Iowa preacher’s son and career con artist, and Private Arno, an innocent teenager who lied about his age to enlist, stumble upon the source […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Daniel Kraus

jeverett15's CBR18 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Daniel Kraus ·
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Your Confederate Sympathies May Vary

The Outlaw Hearts by Rebecca Brandewyne

April 13, 2026 by Pooja Leave a Comment

When schoolteacher Jenny Colter takes the train into the little Ozarks town of Tumbling Creek, she’s hoping to leave behind the violence which destroyed her family in post-Civil War Atlanta. But when she catches sight of the uncovered face of Luke Morgan when he’s robbing the train, he’s determined to keep her quiet by any means necessary… Rebecca Brandewyne is another of those writers of big off-the-wall 80s bodice rippers which I love, though her work doesn’t reach for the soaring heights of WTF-ery that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: 19th century, bodice ripper, civil war, drama, historical, Rebecca Brandewyne, Romance, United States, western

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: 19th century, bodice ripper, civil war, drama, historical, Rebecca Brandewyne, Romance, United States, western ·
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Current events done fun

Space Chasers V01 by Leland Melvin, Joe Caramagna, and Alison Acton

April 13, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The graphic novel Space Chasers V01 by Leland Melvin, Joe Caramagna, and Alison Acton (illustrator) is probably one of the most unbelievable books I have recently read. Oh sure, ages strong 8 and 9 to aged 13 readers are going to LOVE it, because it is about kids and the cool thing they get to do: save the world by screwing up and going to space! Yeah I would have loved this too at that age. I mean, we are kids! I mean we’re awesome! […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Sports, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Alison Acton, Astronauts & Space, friendship, Joe Caramagna, Leland Melvin, Leland Melvin, Joe Caramagna, and Alison Acton, Outer Space, rockets, space, technology

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:96 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Sports, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Alison Acton, Astronauts & Space, friendship, Joe Caramagna, Leland Melvin, Leland Melvin, Joe Caramagna, and Alison Acton, Outer Space, rockets, space, technology ·
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I was not expecting to feel personally victimised by a Rainbow Rowell novel

Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell

April 12, 2026 by Malin 10 Comments

This may be a 3.5 star book, but I’m not actually sure right now. Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is out on April 14th. Cherry’s husband, Tom, is in Los Angeles, working on turning his web comic-turned extremely successful graphic novel, Thursday, into a movie. His semi-autobiographical comic, which happens to have a caricatured version of Cherry in it, who is called Baby. Now that there are multiple trailers, even complete strangers recognise […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ARC, cbr18, Cherry Baby, comic books, contemporary fiction, divorce, dogs, fame, family, Malin, Marriage, NetGalley, Obesity, Rainbow Rowell

Malin's CBR18 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ARC, cbr18, Cherry Baby, comic books, contemporary fiction, divorce, dogs, fame, family, Malin, Marriage, NetGalley, Obesity, Rainbow Rowell ·
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