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“The witch owes nothing. That is what makes her dangerous. And that is what makes her divine.”

Waking the Witch by Pam Grossman

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(This is another one of those quote heavy reviews, but :shrug:) So, I can’t be the only one who’s hearing a lot of talk about witches lately, right?  Podcasts?(including the author of this book’s own) Friends dabbling in crystals? Little sister shoving the Co-Star app at you and asking what time you were born??  I feel like witches are in the zeitgeist right now, one way or another, and as any The Craft-Matilda-Practical Magic loving 90’s teenage girl can tell you, not even for the first time in my lifetime.  I am pretty ok with that, because at least this time, […]

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9/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

“Now I am beyond prophecy.”

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

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Everyone on this site who recommended the Winternight Trilogy: thank youuuuuuu! I devoured these books.  Like, ignore dinner, stay up til 3 am, read all lunch break.   Try to read slowly to savor, but can’t because it just is so good. Continue to recommend to everyone who would listen.  I think it’s so rare to find a trilogy that reads so well, for so long.  I can’t wait to read it again! So, back up, these are the second and third book of Katherine Arden’s Winternight series.  Book 2 picks up right where Book 1 ends: Vasya leaving her village […]

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9/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Bullet with Butterfly Wings

A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

A Trecherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

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I’m putting all four cover images on here right from the get go because I would be lying if I tried to say that I didn’t start this series because of the cover art. I totally did start this series because of the cover art. It is fabulous and, even better, it is a perfect match for the stories contained inside. In A Curious Beginning we meet Veronica Speedwell. Veronica is a woman of science. She is a lepidopterist of skill and renown and she has no time for any of the Victorian era fiddle-faddle that tells her that a […]

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9/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

Here a book, there a book, everywhere a book!

The Library by Sarah Stewart

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I am sure I have not written a review of this before, but if I have, I am also fairly sure I have changed my opinion of The Library by Sarah Stewart and David Small. This book has rhyming text and sweet illustrations. It makes this not only a classic book in feeling but has kept it going since 1995. Making it a contemporary classic in my book. A story about a reader, the library (or libraries actually) she built, and a swell old gal should be right up my alley. This story has no “traditional adventure” but it is […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:354 |

Slimy but oddly satisfying….

Hungry Jim by Laurel Snyder

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While reading Hungry Jim by Laurel Snyder, I was picking up on a vibe I could not really figure out. In the back of my head, I was thinking, “that’s um…. what is this style like?” It clicked after reading the authors afterwards. This book is a takeoff of Maurice Sendak’s work. And it does a good job of bringing that out but keeping Snyder’s voice. But since I am not a huge Sendak fan, I was not picking that up at first, but once you know, that style is obvious. However, the illustrations of Chuck Groenink are less Sendak. […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:353 |

No connection between these, I’m just behind

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzie Lee

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Holy moses I got so behind, and I still have one more I need to review but with the amount I’ve been talking about it offline, it definitely deserves its own review from me. So let’s get started. The Bride Test, by Helen Hoang I read and reviewed the first book in this series, The Kiss Quotient, and wasn’t so prude I wouldn’t read the second, so here we are. I like that the two books are connected without this one feeling like a sequel (a couple of characters overlap, and the main charater Khai had been namedropped in the first […]

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9/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:77 |

How ‘The Ruins’ Ruined My Week

The Ruins by Scott Smith

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There can be something so unrelentingly creepy about killer plants. Pop culture is peppered with terrifying flora, from the shambling Triffid menace to the murderous Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. As a kid, I remember being endlessly fascinated by an episode of Seaquest DSV featuring an invasive carnivorous cutting that nearly sank the submarine and killed all the crew. So when I picked up a copy of The Ruins, I noted with excitement the paperback cover adorned with thick green vines and blood red flowers. Could this book recapture the creeping fear of ferocious flora…? In short, nope. […]

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9/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Their hair held firmly in place by black hairnets

The Governesses by Anne Serre

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This is a short French novella, and I really feel like I have read a LOT of these this year, from 1992. It’s a kind of fable, kind of parable, about a group of three governesses working for a young well-off Parisian family. The way in which this novel is primarily told is through an act of voyeurism. We are constantly being shown what is happening and we are treated as witnesses to those events. So there’s often an image or a sight to take in, there’s action, and through a kind of arms’ length narration style we are told […]

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8/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:486 |


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