A Better World by Sarah Langan
This was a weird one. And I mean that both as a complement and also a little in the what the heck did I read/why are the characters doing that!? I liked it. I stopped my evening one night so I could power through to the kind of inevitable end of the book. But it was a weird ride. Set in a time period called “The Great Unwinding” the story starts out in an America that is … well it is a dystopia. Not a […]
The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness has come up with new challenges for Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont in The Black Bird Oracle, Book Five in her best-selling All Souls series. Fans of the first four installments will absolutely enjoy this one, but it is definitely an installment and not a stand alone in a series. New readers need to be encouraged to go back and start with the first installment, A Discovery of Witches, because there is a LOT of world building that you’re kind of expected to already know. The […]
Asha and the Toymaker by Sakshi Mangal
cbr16bingo Bollywood (child lives in a village of India and the author is from Mumbai, India) Asha and the Toymaker by Sakshi Mangal is something that one needs to experience themselves. I can say it is about Asha and her father in India. I can say that she is a young girl whose father wants her to study hard, not worry about money (that is his job to raise money so she can go to school) and have the opportunities that he did not […]
Funny Story by Emily Henry
CBR16 Sweet Books: Exciting Daphne used to have the perfect life. Working as a children’s librarian, living in a beautiful house with her fiancée Peter, Then, returning from his bachelor party, a shame-faced Peter confesses that he is in fact in love with his best friend Petra, and Daphne has one week to move all her things out of the house (which is owned entirely by Peter). Concluding that Petra’s equally dumped boyfriend Miles probably has some free space in his flat, Daphne moves in […]
Dark Heir (Dark Rise book 2) by C.S. Pacat
CBR16 Bingo: Dun Dun “What a pity you have two saviours and they’re both useless.” ― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir They called him the king’s blade in the shadows, though none knew the deeds that he was tasked to perform, or guessed that while many of the king’s victories were celebrated in the sun, they were won in the dark. ― C.S. Pacat, Dark Heir There was something impossible about his beauty. He suited the sunset, as if he was part of the light that […]
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
cbr16bingo horses Mexican gothic has, to my surprise, become a new favorite genre for me. It’s a different flavor from the British gothic that I grew up on, more of a sense of connection between the living and the not-so-much living, that seems to be a part of the Dia de los Muertos Mexican mentality. So it’s always a treat to get a new sort of being, such as the vampires in this book. So yes, they want to drink blood for nourishment (not unheard […]
