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Bad Ass Footballer

How (Not) To Be Strong by Alex Scott

November 2, 2022 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

Best for: Football fans. Football players. Fans of awesome women. Fans of Alex Scott. In a nutshell: Former professional football (soccer to US folks) player and current broadcaster Alex Scott opens up about her life. Worth quoting: “There was this underlying current that, somehow, playing … [Read more]

ASKReviews's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Sports · Tags: Alex Scott ·
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image of woman smoking a cigarette wearing red sunglasses, a mans reflection in the lenses

Not velvet, more like scratchy polyester

Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

November 2, 2022 by donttrustthe_bea Leave a Comment

  Having really enjoyed Moreno-Garcia's novel, Mexican Gothic, I ordered Velvet Was the Night excitedly, hopeful for another arresting story that was gripping from the start. Unfortunately, that was not what I got from this book. It took me much longer to get into it, and I may have set … [Read more]

donttrustthe_bea's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: latine, Latinx, mexican, mystery, period piece, silvia moreno-garcia, thriller ·
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Extremely yes, very swoon.

A Lady For a Duke by Alexis Hall

November 2, 2022 by narfna 6 Comments

"I cannot meet him as a stranger. But he has never known me as myself." I loved this so much I wish I could just drop everything I'm doing right now, including writing this review, and read it again. I honestly haven't stopped thinking about it since July, and it is now November. I would need … [Read more]

narfna's CBR14 Review No:173 · Genres: Romance · Tags: a lady for a duke, Alexis Hall, historical romance, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA romance, narfna, queer romance, Romance, trans character ·
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Read too early and posted too late for Halloween

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

November 2, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

This book is The House in the Cerulean Sea except with a het witch instead of a gay orphanage accountant(?). The beats are very similar, from what I remember, but it doesn't make it any less enjoyable. The adorquirkably named Mika Moon is our protagonist, a half(?)-Indian witch who lost her … [Read more]

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:131 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: Sangu Mandanna ·
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Nona would love to meet Mosscap, don’t you think?

Nona the Ninth by Tamysn Muir

November 2, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Proper review, a month or so after finishing the book: What it’s only been five weeks since this book came out??? As a sidebar, someone once sent me this scrolling diagram thing to demonstrate why time seems to fly by as you get older and ever since I’ve been terrified of this happening. Why would … [Read more]

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:130 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Tamysn Muir, the Locked Tomb ·
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Gideon and Harrow, retread

Gideon the Ninth by Tamysn Muir

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

November 2, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Re-read, September 2022, in advance of Nona Wow. What a change 17 months makes? (edited to note: I originally felt like Gideon was 3.5 stars, too confusing by half, not the best thing I'd read but I was interested to read more) I originally read this in a bit of a weird space. I had made some … [Read more]

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:129 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: tamsyn muir, Tamysn Muir, the Locked Tomb ·
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