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After the Rain by John Jennings

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This is one messed up book.   Yet, After the Rain based on the Nnedi Okorafor short story, is powerful and probably something we need to read. Violence, graphic image of torture and even rape imagery could be triggers. I would not recommend for under age 14 and I still think that might be too young. KNOW your reader. This is not for sensitive readers as even adults could be disturbed. And no, this should not be read at 11:30 at night because you couldn’t […]

Two duds; neither worthy of a rant

Avalanche by Patrick McManus

Quantum Moon by Denise Vitola

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I grew up reading (and being read aloud to) Patrick McManus’s stories and essays about his (hopefully highly embellished) childhood, with such wonderful names as The Night the Bear Ate Goombah and Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink. When I saw that he’d written an actual book – a mystery novel – I had to give it a try. It was disappointing. A small-town sheriff hunts for the missing owner of a hunting lodge. It’s a little bit too sexist, a little bit too “aw shucks […]

“Spite was honor when it was the only weapon you had against someone more powerful” – BINGO!

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

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4.5 stars CBR14: Rec’d (this has been recommended by multiple Cannonballers and pretty much every romance review blog I can think of) Edward Percival “Percy” Talbot, Lord Holland, returns to England after several years abroad in Europe to discover that his mother died in his absence, and his deeply unpleasant father hastily remarried, to Percy’s best friend from childhood, Lady Marian Hayes, who also had time to birth Percy a baby sister. Furthermore, Marian reveals that a blackmailer has contacted her with proof that the […]

Straight from London, it’s: John Constantine!

Constantine: Distorted Illusions by Kami Garcia

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Constantine: Distorted Illusions by Kami Garcia is exactly what you would expect from Garcia and the character of John Constantine. Her brilliant writing and his arrogant ‘tude fill each page with one (mis)adventure after another. He tries to get the girl, but she won’t be got. She has a secret, he has secrets. His new bandmates and he know they are above it all! After all, they can do magic, and damn the consequences. And consequences are plenty. Isaac Goodhart brings it together with the […]

They Do It With Mirrors

They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie

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September 13, 2022 review: Well I read this for Halloween bingo 2021, “Locked Room Mystery” square. LMAO. I can’t help it, I am always going to find a way to read Christie during the months of September and October. She always seems to be a symbol of the coming darker winter days. The locked room aspect comes into play when a young man comes and demands to speak to Lewis Serrocold at gunpoint behind locked doors of his office. What is interesting though is that […]

A Murder is Announced

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

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Updated review September 13, 2022: Wow. I always say this one really does hit all the feels, at least it did for me on why and how I became such a fan of Miss Marple. This book nicely sets the stage for a murder and then Miss Marple comes in after meeting inspector Craddock at a lunch with Sir Henry Clithering. Miss Marple just knows something is off about the whole set up a party being announced and a man is then murdered after attempting […]



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