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It’s the biggest and most dangerous dating show in the universe!

Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

December 31, 2022 by Malin 2 Comments

This is not the place to start The Innkeeper Chronicles, as it’s the sixth installment overall (four full books and a novella come before it). This story has a LOT of callbacks to previous stories, so just start with Clean Sweep if you haven’t tried this yet. Innkeepers Dina DeMille and Sean Evans are still trying to recover from the last cosmic adventure that taxed them when they discover that Wilmos, the aging werewolf who’s pretty much Sean’s surrogate grandfather has been abducted. The traces […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, action, Aliens, assassins, big cats, cbr14, ilona andrews, Malin, mystery, pirates, Romance, Sweep of the Heart, the Innkeeper Chronicles, vampires, werewolves

Malin's CBR14 Review No:50 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, action, Aliens, assassins, big cats, cbr14, ilona andrews, Malin, mystery, pirates, Romance, Sweep of the Heart, the Innkeeper Chronicles, vampires, werewolves ·
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Why I can’t finish action manga series most of the time

Jujutsu Kaisen vols 13-15 by Gege Akutami

June 30, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Something that annoys me is when action-based stories spend many pages, episodes, or volumes telling a bunch of different sides, parts, or experiences of a fight; it gets boring and I lose track, get bored, or both. Jujustsu Kaisen has gone there. It started a volume or two ago, and volumes 13, 14, and 15 continue the fighting for the same fight. Volume 15 at least contains a hint maybe actual plot or character might be impending. Really the only thing that makes these sequences […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror Tagged With: action, gege akutami, horror, Jujutsu Kaisen, shonen manga, sorcerer school

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:51 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror · Tags: action, gege akutami, horror, Jujutsu Kaisen, shonen manga, sorcerer school ·
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Good side fight and breaking the fourth wall

Fire Force vol 26 by Atsushi Ohkubo

June 26, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

It’s pretty rare for a manga volume to focus on a side character and be this good; I actually didn’t miss Company 8, Shinra, etc. all that much. Then again, the backstory and fight focus on Benimaru is interesting enough but also kind of predictable way to get to know a little more about one of my favorite characters in the series. There’s actually just a little character growth shown, although again, not much of it all that surprising. The one thing I’d like to […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, action, Atsushi Ohkuba, atsushi ohkubo, fighters, Fire Force vol 26, manga, sci-fi, speculative

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:50 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, action, Atsushi Ohkuba, atsushi ohkubo, fighters, Fire Force vol 26, manga, sci-fi, speculative ·
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More Than a Female James Bond

The Night of Morningstar by Peter O'Donnell

April 4, 2022 by sabian30 4 Comments

This is a recreational reread for me. I love the pulp novels of Peter O’Donnell and his exciting secret agent, Modesty Blaise, and reread the 13 novels every couple years. Modesty, in this novel, works with her equally competent partner, Willie Garvin, to combat a worldwide organization attempting to take over the world. In the other books, her beginnings as the head of a European crime syndicate is mentioned, but in this story, we watch her early retirement as she and Willie have decided crime […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: action, adventure, Peter O'Donnell, spy thriller, Strong Female Character

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: action, adventure, Peter O'Donnell, spy thriller, Strong Female Character ·
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I Should Reread These Modesty Blaise Books in Order

A Taste for Death by Peter O'Donnell

February 13, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

I enjoy rereading all the Modesty Blaise novels, but two of the characters who fall in love in this book were an old married couple in the last one. While the exploits of Modesty and her partner, Willie Garvin, are exciting, this has one of the best fight scenes in all the Modesty novels. In fact, she has a scary encounter with a swordsman AND Willie meets up with a gorilla-like sadist who had battered him almost to the death during a previous encounter. Stuck […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: action, adventure, Modesty Blaise, Peter O'Donnell, strong female leads, Willie Garvin

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: action, adventure, Modesty Blaise, Peter O'Donnell, strong female leads, Willie Garvin ·
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A Flying, Glow-in-the-Dark Dinosaur in the Modern Day

Umboi Island by JJ Dupuis

February 6, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Laura is the host of Creature X, a cryptozoology show, despite being an avowed skeptic. In search of the Ropen, she and her team go to a remote island in Papua New Guinea, where they become entangled in a mystery when a dead man is found in one of their tents. Though billed a mystery, this is more of a good old-fashioned action-adventure novel, complete with martial arts, gun fights, and a far-off setting. What sets this book above many other old-fashioned action-adventure novel is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: action, adventure, cryptozoology, JJ Dupuis, mystery, papua new guinea

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: action, adventure, cryptozoology, JJ Dupuis, mystery, papua new guinea ·
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