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1st half was better

Dune by Frank Herbert

November 5, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

CBR 16 Bingo – Part 2: The 2nd 2 sections of Dune (the last approximately 300 pages) I already reviewed the 1st half of Dune for Part 1, this is the 2nd half. To start, I would like to warn anyone that hasn’t read this yet that between Dune and Muad’dib there is a time jump, so that you don’t spend 50+ pages being confused since it doesn’t say that there was any sort of time jump. Looking back, I probably should have known given […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr16bingo, Frank Herbert

Bibliophile's CBR16 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr16bingo, Frank Herbert ·
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Well that was a lot… and there’s still more

Dune by Frank Herbert

November 5, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

CBR 16 Bingo – Part 1 I could have used this book for at least 50% of the bingo squares, but given how long it took me to read it, and that I have different opinions about the first and second halves, I chose to do the part 1/part 2. Also its kind of perfect since its almost exactly 600 pages. The book is divided into 3 sections (Dune, Muad’Dib, and The Prophet). The first one, Dune, is roughly 400 pages so I’ll focus on […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr16bingo, Frank Herbert

Bibliophile's CBR16 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr16bingo, Frank Herbert ·
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A flame drop inside a flame circle with title and author in all-caps text above a marshlandChicago

Why does having multiple values cause you to be a minority?

Divergent by Veronica Roth

November 5, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

CBR 16 Bingo – And also (Dun dun): Suspenseful, dystopian, and generally dramatic. I read a lot of dystopian and, since Divergent is one of the most highly rated modern dystopian books, I felt obligated to read it. Divergent is set in a dystopian Chicago, where society is divided into 5 factions, based on values. There’s Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). 16 year old Beatrice, a member of Abnegation who never really fit in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr16bingo, Veronica Roth

Bibliophile's CBR16 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr16bingo, Veronica Roth ·
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The first one was so good… and now we have this

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

November 5, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

CBR 16 Bingo – Fiasco: This book itself was a fiasco. It’s the sequel to a great book that deserved a great sequel, not one that was neither entertaining nor engaging, hence me deming it a fiasco. I had high hopes going into this book. I picked it up immediately after Divergent because I wanted more of the characters and world, and I wanted to know what happened next, but this book did not satisfy that. I didn’t learn what happened next, because it was […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr16bingo, Veronica Roth

Bibliophile's CBR16 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr16bingo, Veronica Roth ·
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“If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?”

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

November 5, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

CBR 16 Bingo – Games: This whole series is centered around games and puzzles. Also it’s in the title. Avery is simply living her life, trying to make it through high school, get a scholarship, and get out when she receives a mysterious invitation to the reading of the will of billionaire Tobias Hawthorne. He leaves her the majority of his inheritance, even though she doesn’t know who she is and has never met the man in her life. To receive this inheritance, Avery has […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr16bingo, Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Bibliophile's CBR16 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr16bingo, Jennifer Lynn Barnes ·
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Taverns have ale flowing, wenches are wenching and pirates pirating.

Sea of Thieves by Jeremy Whitley

Sea of Thieves: Origins Volume One by Jeremy Whitley

Sea of Thieves: Origins: Champion of Souls by Jeremy Whitley

November 5, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I started with Sea of Thieves: Sea Dog’s Search illustrated by Rhoald Marcellius. Though it says it has issues one to three, it was actually after the no added title, Sea of Thieves. We meet our main pirate twins, their friends, frenemies and a possible lover or two or three…. Here we build up the story of all the characters we find in the second book (or the main ones) and we learn about a few creatures and events. However, you needed Sea of Thieves: […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Sports, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: family, games, gender, gender roles, ghosts, Jeremy Whitley, LGBTQ, pirates, Rhoald Marcellius, Sea of Thieves, Ships, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:529 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Sports, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: family, games, gender, gender roles, ghosts, Jeremy Whitley, LGBTQ, pirates, Rhoald Marcellius, Sea of Thieves, Ships, siblings ·
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