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Better than most

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

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3.5 stars. At this point, my expectations for Jane Austen retellings are so very very low. There are about 2 that I can think of that I would recommend to anyone and considering I’ve read plenty? That’s not a great batting average. It’s like authors/publishers know fans will pick them up so they don’t feel like they have to try very hard. People LOVE Lizzie & Darcy so of course they’ll read. But in truth, you’re getting compared to one of the best writers of the last few centuries, so you should try harder. If an author manages to capture […]

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1/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Where have I seen this plot before?!?!

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

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Stop me if you’ve hear this before: mysterious giant metallic objects, robot/sculptures in this this case, suddenly appear all over the world and humanity at first freaks out, then adjusts. Upon further study, the unknowable objects, named Carls here, are revealed to have impossible properties, and thus maybe are not from Earth. Cue alien invasion debate/panic. A hero, April May in this case, who likely had something to do with the first contact believes that the Carls are not threatening, and works to figure out how to prove this and further figure out what they are and what they want. […]

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1/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Who Published This Book Half-Finished?

Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children) by Seanan McGuire

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Coming off the heels of the stupendous Dread Nation, I was pumped for this YA novel. The setup: children travel through magical portals to alternate worlds, only to become distraught upon their return to their tedious old lives. (Postmodern Wonderland or Narnia!) Though this book won all the awards—Hugo, Alex, Locus Nebula—it utterly failed to enchant me. I suppose my heart is a closed door. Or maybe an inky void. Nancy (the sixth most interesting character, maybe) lands at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children as a last resort. Her parents believe a kidnapping broke their daughter, changing her from […]

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1/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

One of the good ones

Valiant by Sarah McGuire

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If you just search for the title on Amazon, you don’t get this book until somewhere after the 10th page of results, and it’s on the 4th page if you search just books.  That’s just sad, because it’s really a good book. Well this one starts off sad, doesn’t it?  We start with a young woman, Saville, traveling with her father to a new city away from her mother’s grave.  And her father is an ass. He is a tailor who somehow sews things differently? Oh, and Saville’s betrothed left her.  Well, maybe that’s for the best. This seems all […]

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1/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

In Which Jane Kicks Efficient Ass, Especially the Undead Variety

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

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Yes, we might be living in the darkest timeline—or the dumbest, hard to tell. But be glad that you’re not our girl Jane, who contends with cruel racism and incompetence while also decapitating hungry “shamblers,” the reanimated corpses of the Gettysburg fallen and any poor soul bitten thereafter. Some years ago, the paddy wagon plucked Jane McKeene from her home at Rose Hill plantation so that she might learn the finer points of combat and decorum at Miss Preston’s, Baltimore’s finest school for Negro girls. She and her classmates train hard for the chance to become an Attendant—bodyguard and chastity […]

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1/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Fairy tale update with a Latinx spin

Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore

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Technically it’s a misleading to say this is an update of a fairy tale. Really, this is a reimagining of several, woven together with a Latinx flair and a contemporary openness to LGBTQIA sensibilities. If that sounds like a lot to pack into 375 pages, you aren’t wrong, but I think it’s a decent effort. Blanca & Roja tells the story of the del Cisne sisters, one of whom is destined by a family curse to become a swan. Told from four perspectives, this book mixes several fairy tale threads together, from The Black Swan to the Bear Boy. The […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

This is where we learn it’s not a good idea to throw your GF into a bottomless pit

One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

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Book: One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake Series: One Dark Throne Medium: Audiobook Date Read: Jan 8-10, 2019 Overall Rating: 4 poison viles/5 I know that I go easy on YA’s rating wise but you know what, they are so fun, you want to read them,  and they keep you reading and this sequel is just that.  Excellent character development, continuation of an interesting plot, and people making terrible mistakes due to lack of communication.  Oh, teenagers, when will you learn? In the sequel to Three Dark Queens, Kendare picks up right where she left off. After the disastrous end […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Implied beastiality aside, a good little fairy tale/sci fi/YA romp

Winter by Marissa Meyer

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Book: Winter by Marissa Meyers Series: Lunar Chronicles Medium: Audiobook Read From: Jan 05-08, 2019 Overall Rating: 3.5 wolf cubs out of 5 I had started the Lunar Chronical before Christmas break and finished the last in the original series (there is a prequel called Heartless I have yet to read) on the recommendation from my husband who listened to the audiobooks (which surprised because there are some pretty hilarious lovey-dovey romance bits that apparently jive with him. We’ve been together for over a decade and I was having a more you know moment about his taste in books as I read this book, […]

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1/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |


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