I learned today (June 4 2026) that Marjane Satrapi passed away at 56 years old. It sounds as though she died of a broken heart as it was a little more than a year after her husband's death. I cannot say how this saddens me. I really have no words. I mean, I can say how she was an amazing author who … [Read more]
A promising debut cozy fantasy romance that didn’t quite fully hit.
Letters from the Last Apothecary by Bita Behzadi
Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House | Hay House LLC for the Audio ARC. It hasn't affected the contents of my review. This is a promising debut by Bita Behzadi, and I will be reading further books from her, but this one had some issues that mean I can't give it a full four stars. Mostly, … [Read more]
's CBR18 Review No:17 ·
Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Romance ·
Tags: #fantasy, ARCs, audiobooks, Bita Behzadi, cozy, cozy fantasy, fantasy romance, historical fantasy, Letters from the Last Apothecary, m/f, narfna, Romance ·
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
I really wanted to love this one, but it ended up not working out for me. That does not mean I won't be reading this author again in the future. This book showed a lot of promise, it just kept hampered I think by Mandanna not breaking this up into two novels. I really wanted to know more about … [Read more]
's CBR18 Review No:45 ·
Genres: Fantasy, Romance ·
Tags: A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping, Sangu Mandanna ·
“Age would have taken her if they’d just had the sense to leave well enough alone.”
Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence
More fantasy with older protagonists please! With Daughter of Crows, Mark Lawrence is giving us a new trilogy—one that is not meant to be tied back to his previous works. Despite this, I thought we might end up covering some old ground when I first read the synopsis: a magical academy that exists … [Read more]
's CBR18 Review No:9 ·
Genres: Fantasy ·
Tags: #fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy with older protagonists, grim dark, Mark Lawrence ·
A made-for-social-media mystery
Strange Houses by Uketsu
Strange Houses was the first book I read this year, back in January, and it has taken me entirely too long to just sit down and jot down my thoughts about it. Part of it is because I was very disappointed with how promising the premise was and how it fully deflated by the time I got to the end, so … [Read more]
Needs More Claude Rains
The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong
All I knew about this book before picking it up was that it had been adapted into a movie starring Claude Rains. I caught part of that movie on TCM one time and it looked intriguing so I thought I would check out the book. However, the novel is unfortunately really a very silly little thriller, … [Read more]
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