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The Secret History by Donna Tartt

September 27, 2024 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

The Story: the narrator (Richard, although his name is used so rarely that I kept forgetting what it was) leaves an unhappy existence in California to attend the small, private Hampden College in Vermont. There, he decides to study Greek under an enigmatic professor, Julian, alongside a small, elitist group of other Classics students: cold and intellectual Henry, anxious hypochondriac Francis, twins Charles and Camilla (I wish I could find descriptors for these other than “twin,” but unfortunately they’re both very thinly drawn), and Bunny, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Ancient Greece, college life, Donna Tartt, murder, New England, secret history

Ellesfena's CBR16 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Ancient Greece, college life, Donna Tartt, murder, New England, secret history ·
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Be Cool, Sodapop

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

September 27, 2024 by RouletteGirl Leave a Comment

I don’t know why I’d never previously read The Outsiders. I grew up loving another S.E. Hinton book, That was Then, This is Now. That book has some overlapping characters as The Outsiders; the Shepard brothers appear a few times, and Ponyboy is mentioned. But despite the fact that I grew up loving Bryon and Cathy, and re-read that book many times, I somehow never picked up any of Hinton’s other novels. This year, the PS Reading Challenge has a prompt to read a book […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: S.E. Hinton

RouletteGirl's CBR16 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: S.E. Hinton ·
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If ever there was a person who could make me say “what the hell” and simply live my best life for a single night, it would be the tatted goddess Shae

Love and Sportsball by Meka James

September 26, 2024 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I enjoyed Love & Sportsball so much. It is a refreshingly adult workplace romance between a newly hired athletic trainer and the star player on a women’s pro basketball team in Atlanta. The two have a one night stand and then are surprised to meet a couple of days later at work. Shae is delighted and ready to start a romance. Dijah is horrified and wants to keep it professional. Here’s the wonderful thing about this book: Shae is disappointed but she doesn’t try to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Sports Tagged With: advance reader copy, Atlanta Cannons series, Love and Sportsball, Meka James, NetGalley, sapphic romance, sports romance

Emmalita's CBR16 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Sports · Tags: advance reader copy, Atlanta Cannons series, Love and Sportsball, Meka James, NetGalley, sapphic romance, sports romance ·
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When Fiction Gets A Little Too Real

Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry

September 26, 2024 by dreadpiratekel Leave a Comment

Good Girls Don’t Die follows three characters—Celia, Allie, and Maggie—who find themselves in strange situations that seem to be the sort of scenarios you would find in novels that the characters happen to be fans of.  Some background around what the characters read is provided at the start of each chapter, via message board-looking posts where book genres are discussed.  The book is split into four parts, with the first three sections following one of the women as she tries to figure out what is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: #mystery, Christina Henry, Fiction, Good Girls Don't Die, horror, three genres in one, what is going on?

dreadpiratekel's CBR16 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: #mystery, Christina Henry, Fiction, Good Girls Don't Die, horror, three genres in one, what is going on? ·
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You’re the right kind of sinner to release my inner fantasy.

Here for the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang

September 26, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“I don’t have to sleep with him on our Honeymoon,” Lauren says. “They actually encourage you to just spend the night, like, kissing. Talking about vulnerable stuff you wouldn’t want to discuss on-camera.” “Right. And there’s a lot of vulnerable stuff you need to tell him,” Damian says. “For instance, you need to tell him you don’t like guys.” ― Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang, Here for the Wrong Reasons She didn’t see rampant homophobia so much as she never saw a happy gay future […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Annabel Paulsen, Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang, Bachelor, cbr16bingo, closets, cowgirl, femininity, horses, Instagram, lesbian author, lesbian romance, LGBTQIA+ characters, Lydia Wang, performative femininity, queer authors, queer romance, reality TV, sapphic romance

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:76 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Annabel Paulsen, Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang, Bachelor, cbr16bingo, closets, cowgirl, femininity, horses, Instagram, lesbian author, lesbian romance, LGBTQIA+ characters, Lydia Wang, performative femininity, queer authors, queer romance, reality TV, sapphic romance ·
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Somehow I’m Neither Here Nor There

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

September 26, 2024 by Bea Pants 1 Comment

The eighth installment of the Wayward Children series was certainly an emotional gut punch for me. Having said that, it might also be one of my favorites in the series. We meet Antoinette or “Antsy” to her loving parents, whom we briefly met in the previous book. We learn about her life before she came to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Antsy lives a happy life until the sudden death of her father. When her mother remarries shortly after, the man she marries drives […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #SeananMcGuire, #WaywardChildren, Seanan McGuire

Bea Pants's CBR16 Review No:22 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #SeananMcGuire, #WaywardChildren, Seanan McGuire ·
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