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No One to Really Root For but It’s Still Somehow Pretty Good

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

June 19, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

She Who Became the Sun definitely lived up to the hype; the characters are interesting and complex, and there is plenty of action and plot. What bothered me was that there was really only one character who stood up for general human decency, not just “I must take charge of my destiny no matter what … [Read more]

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:47 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Buddhism, China, historical fiction, LGBTQ, medieval, pride month, She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan ·
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Chilled

Heated by Naima Simone

June 19, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I wasn't ever able to really get into Naima Simone's Heated. I've read and liked other Naima Simone books, so I can say it's more a this one didn't work for me than a there's a problem with this book issue. Here is what I did like: Zora and her siblings run a business called Burned, Inc - … [Read more]

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:71 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: advance reader copy, Heated, Naima Simone, NetGalley ·
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What This Cruel War Is About

El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord by Noah Hurowitz

June 18, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

I've long avoided books about El Chapo, Mexican drug cartels, and other similar subjects because I think most US citizens have an outlandish view of how the drug trade actually works. In the brief encounters with Mexican drug cartels in fiction, the gangsters are portrayed as overly-tattooed, … [Read more]

Jake's CBR14 Review No:100 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Drug War, El Chapo, Joaquín Guzman Loera, mexico, Noah Hurowitz, Sinaloa Cartel, United States, War on drugs ·
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*Jaws Theme* dun dun dun dun

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

June 18, 2022 by esmemoria 2 Comments

I have an MFA in short fiction and don’t do a damn thing with it. But I love a good collection of short stories that teach me something about craft. Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Other Stories taught me the art of the ominous subtext. Jackson’s stories feature a lot of isolated or lonely … [Read more]

esmemoria's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Shirley Jackson, subtextual stones ·
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The Last Days of the Free Comanche

Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson

June 18, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Captured in a raid, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is adopted by a Comanche couple and becomes integrated into the tribe, given the name Naduah, and eventually grows up to marry a Comanche chief. I love long lush historical fiction, especially older ones that lean more heavily into sprawling … [Read more]

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:80 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: colonialism, historical fiction, Lucia St. Clair Robson, Native American, romance, wild west ·
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If your therapist started writing chick-lit, this is what you’d get.

Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center

June 18, 2022 by RaRaGabor Leave a Comment

This is the second Katherine Center book I’ve read. My book club read How To Walk Away a couple years ago. It was fine! Not my usual cup of tea, but we actually had a good discussion around disability, the ethics that therapists should/do follow, etc. I thought Things You Save In A Fire might be a … [Read more]

RaRaGabor's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: chick lit, Katherine Center, women's fiction ·
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