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Aww, Who’s the Good Boi?

Widow-Maker by Paul Doiron

December 10, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Unlike the previous Mike Bowditch, game warden series, this book focuses on a particular moral dilemma.  A couple of teens are attending an elite ski boarding school near the Widow-maker Ski Resort in central Maine.  The girl, about a year younger, is from a wealthy connected family and is clearly being groomed to be a champion.  The boy, a scholarship kid, has a more uncertain future, but he is putting his best effort into it.  But things don’t go well, and the boy, who has […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: High school sweethearts sex offenders?, Mike Bowditch Game Warden, Paul Doiron, Shitty father so ya never know, Snowy Maine, So many moral dilemmas, Wolf Dogs a touchy subject

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:63 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: High school sweethearts sex offenders?, Mike Bowditch Game Warden, Paul Doiron, Shitty father so ya never know, Snowy Maine, So many moral dilemmas, Wolf Dogs a touchy subject ·
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French Noir

Skeletons in the Closet by Jean-Patrick Manchette

December 4, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

May I quote a reviewer – “Writing so dark it gives a new meaning to the word noir.”  Welp, this is definitely murky to the extreme, but a lot of that was on myself as the reader. Written by French crime writer Manchette in 1976, Skeletons in the Closet is a fast paced tale of private eye Eugene Tarpon, hired to theoretically search for the daughter of a little old lady.  There are no leads, and those who hire him are connected with the police, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: 1970s French Noir, Down on his luck PI hired just to make nice but can't let it go, French car chases in and out of Paris, French cars!, French firearms!, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Really getting lost here, Where is the French Humphrey Bogart?

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:62 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: 1970s French Noir, Down on his luck PI hired just to make nice but can't let it go, French car chases in and out of Paris, French cars!, French firearms!, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Really getting lost here, Where is the French Humphrey Bogart? ·
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You’ll be spooked so much it’s a good thing this is set in a bathroom

The Harrowing Game by Antonie Revoy

December 2, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Little geek brag. Author Antonie Revoy liked my review on a certain site I count my books on for The Harrowing Game (or at least the person/people who take care of their social media). Still, that’s a pretty cool brag. Me and graphic novels had an unusual relationship. It was not until I read three different ones that I really understood how a book that is in the graphic novel format can be as powerful as the novel without images could be. And when I read […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Horror, Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Antonie Revoy, competitions, Ghost Stories, occult, Social Themes, storytelling, supernatural

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:542 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Horror, Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Antonie Revoy, competitions, Ghost Stories, occult, Social Themes, storytelling, supernatural ·
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“When someone is murdered next door, it changes everything”

The Murder Next Door: A Graphic Memoir by Hugh D'Andrade

December 2, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Murder Next Door: A Graphic Memoir by Hugh D’Andrade was given a rating of five because it is an interesting story. However, it is actually more of a 4.5 as there were a few places I was not “feeling it.”  With that said, the focus of a murder that happened 40 years prior, but is still affecting our narrator, is powerful, interesting and oddly relatable. The ending felt a bit rushed to me, but overall a darn (only didn’t say darn) good read.  Of […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: crime, family, grief, Hugh D'Andrade, trauma

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:541 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: crime, family, grief, Hugh D'Andrade, trauma ·
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Girl meets accident, girl has amnesia, girl gets a new look on life….

Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love!, Volume 1 by Mamakari 

December 2, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Title: Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love!, Volume 1  Author: Mamakari  Illustrator: Mamakari  Annotation from Publisher: “All Yumeko ever saw were her flaws. Her unhappy outlook infected not just her, but everyone around her, too. It’s only after a car accident that leaves Yumeko with amnesia that she wakes up with a brand-new lease on life, one that attracts all kinds of adventures and maybe even love.”–   My Comments: So, at first I really did not like this book. There were a lot of bumps in […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: contemporary, East Asian Style, Mamakari, manga, Media Tie-In, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:534 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: contemporary, East Asian Style, Mamakari, manga, Media Tie-In, Social Themes ·
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Absurd and Convoluted

Passenger 23 by Sebastian Fitzek

December 1, 2025 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Content warning for suicide and SA. I hated this book. If it wasn’t such a fast read, I probably would have DNF’d it. It’s a thriller set on a cruise ship with so many threads I could barely keep track of everything. There is the investigator trained in psychology whose wife was on the ship in earlier days and threw her young son overboard, following him soon after. When the investigator ends up investigating a call from the same ship, he finds out once he’s […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Sebastian Fitzek

esmemoria's CBR17 Review No:64 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Sebastian Fitzek ·
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