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Ms. Marvel continues to be delightful

Ms. Marvel, vol 3: Crushed by G. Willow Wilson

Ms. Marvel, vol 4: Last Days by G. Willow Wilson

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#CBR11 Bingo: Illustrated Ms. Marvel, vol 3: Crushed – 4 stars Kamala faces a new, terrifying threat: Excessive feelings! Love is in the air in Jersey City as Valentine’s Day arrives! Kamala Khan may not be allowed to go to the school dance, but Ms. Marvel is! Well sort of–by crashing it in an attempt to capture Asgard’s most annoying trickster! Yup, it’s a special Valentine’s Day story featuring Marvel’s favorite charlatan, Loki! And when a mysterious stranger arrives in Jersey City, Ms. Marvel must deal with…a crush! Because this new kid is really, really cute. What are these feelings, Kamala […]

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7/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

Exhilarating, awe inspiring, and insanely readable

A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols

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A Voyage for Madmen was a real treat, a riveting read that I devoured over the course of one day and that was all I’d then talk about to my friends for another. In recent years I’ve discovered that I have a bit of a thing for tales of people enduring extreme challenges – be they explorers, climbers, sailors or their like – and finding out what they’re really made of (this despite, or maybe because of my personally being a very cautious person). A Voyage for Madmen is a cracking entry in that genre, and has sparked a thirst […]

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6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

Kissing and scheming and spaceship stealing

Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik

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3.5 stars From Goodreads: As the seventh of nine children, Ada von Hasenberg knows that her only value to House von Hasenberg is as a political pawn in an arranged marriage. But after watching two of her older sisters get auctioned off to horrible men, Ada refuses to play her part. She flees off-planet and disappears for two years. Ada’s father, fed up with her rebellion, offers a bounty for her safe return. The universe is a big place, but mercs are everywhere, and Ada is caught. With the merc ship full, she’s forced to share a cell with Marcus […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

A rollicking well-written adventure

Washington Black by Esi Edugyuan

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From a flight from slavery in an hot air balloon to surviving blizzards in the Arctic to a maritime science exposition in Victorian London, the eponymous main character in Washington Black literally covers a lot of ground.  Born into slavery on a sugar plantation in Barbados, young Washington, nicknamed Wash, is plucked from the fields by the Master’s brother, Titch, in order to assist Titch in his scientific experiments.  After a white plantation guest commits suicide, Titch foresees that Washington is likely to catch the (almost certainly deadly) blame, and in the dark of night he spirits Wash away in […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

A Doctor Who twist on classic fairy tales

Time Lord Fairy Tales by Justin Richards and David Wardle

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Time lord fairy tales, like the title succinctly suggests, is a mashup of the Who-niverse and the good old (Western) fairy tales. It puts classical Doctor Who characters into sometimes well-known fairy tales other times stories that either just borrow the structure of fairy tales or that I don’t know. As an adult it was fun to guess along to identify the origin story or the original baddie. However even though the stories are all written by the same author the quality varies wildly. “Heroes can be found in the most unlikely places. Perhaps we all have it within us […]

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3/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Lost in Translation to Graphic

Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer, Giovanni Rigano, Paolo Lamanna

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I have read the original novel. In fact, I’ve also read all but the final novel in the original series. I was curious about the graphic novel adaptation. Given that the original Artemis Fowl is a YA novel, I figured a comic book style version would be reasonably similar. It both was and was not. The basic plot remains the same: devious genius Artemis and his loyal body guard/butler Butler devise a plan to kidnap a fairy for reasons which will not be revealed until Artemis explain his whole scheme ala evil villain monologue to Captain Holly Short of the […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Here There Be Giant Catfish Monsters

A World Below by Wesley King

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When Mr. Baker takes his sixth grade class to the Carslbad Caverns for their end of year field-trip, he assures them they’ll find awe and adventure. Turns out they find a little too much of both. Wandering the cavern’s depths, they get caught in an earthquake that sends them deeper underground and the students find themselves split up, teacherless, and lost in the middle of the earth. As they try to find their way back, they will encounter unrecognizable wildlife, conquer their own fears, and most surprisingly, meet a community of people who fled the above ground world long ago. […]

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1/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Standalone fantasy novels are rare and precious. This one was not bad.

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

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Khai was destined from birth to become the Shadow of the Sun-blessed princess Zaryia. Both born during the same eclipse, Khai was the child who caught the hawk’s feather thrown by the selected priestess, thus confirming that he was the chosen one. Raised by warrior priests deep in the desert, Khai is trained in all the deadly arts of stealth and fighting, and gets his first chance to kill a man at age nine. He hones all his abilities to become the very best Shadow to his soul’s twin, destined to guard and protect her against all evil. Yet when […]

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12/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:107 |


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