This is the concluding novel of the Women of the Otherworld series, and wraps up the Savannah Levine trilogy that started with Waking the Witch. Overall, I think it was a very fitting ending, though I don't think Savannah is really one of my favorite narrators. That honor would be reserved for … [Read more]
Jen K’s Review #4: Spell Bound
Spell Bound takes off immediately where Waking the Witch left off, with Savannah's powers gone. After regretting how the last case ended, she had made a wish that she would gladly give up her spells if only she could fix some of the problems her investigation caused. As it turns out, someone took … [Read more]
Jen K’s Review 3: Waking the Witch
After being introduced as a 12 year old girl in the second novel of the series, Savannah Levine narrates the 11th book in the series as a 21 year old. For the most part, this novel falls very much in line with the rest of the series, though there is more focus on Savannah growing up, and less on … [Read more]
Once Upon a Time in Old New York
1899. On a ship bound for New York in the middle of the Atlantic, a Golem comes to life. Soon after, her master and sole reason for living, dies. A little ways across the water, a Jinni turned human emerges from more than a thousand years of captivity in a flask in the shop of a tinsmith in lower … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:1 ·
Genres: Fantasy, History ·
Tags: fantasy, folklore, helene wecker, historical, mythology, narfna, the golem and the jinni ·
Of Swifts and Gin (A Robert CBR6 Review)
Christopher Beale is a teacher without a school, pulled back to England after years of teaching English in a strict Muslim town in Borneo. His father has landed in a nursing home after a stroke, but Christopher still needs work. He takes on a private teaching job at the home of Lawrence and Juliet … [Read more]
's CBR6 Review No:1 ·
Genres: Fiction, Suspense ·
Tags: gothic, horror, stephen gregory, the waking that kills ·
Off with Her Head
Quick Synopsis: The fall of Anne Boleyn as engineered by Thomas Cromwell. Quick Review: I liked it, and I'd recommend it for anyone with enough time and interest in the period to focus on the story and take in the historical detail. Read the Full Review … [Read more]