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“When death stares people in the face, they revert to their true self.”

The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

October 27, 2025 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Free (swapping out Migrant) In a world pretty much like our own, people were just going about their ordinary lives when suddenly, everything changed. Gigantic portals to some other mystical dimension began opening all over the world. It soon became clear that if the portals were left unattended for a while, hordes of horrific monsters emerged and proceeded to wreak havoc. Once specialised teams started breaching the gates, they discovered each portal contained a lot of rare and valuable minerals and resources, as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Aliens, cbr17, cbr17bingo, family, ilona andrews, installments, Malin, monsters, the Breach Wars, The Inheritance, Urban Fantasy

Malin's CBR17 Review No:62 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Aliens, cbr17, cbr17bingo, family, ilona andrews, installments, Malin, monsters, the Breach Wars, The Inheritance, Urban Fantasy ·
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It was easier to read once I had the mental image of Robert Pattinson as Mickey in my head

Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

July 27, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Nowhere Books Bingo 25: Book adapted into a movie or TV show CBR17 Bingo: Diaspora (Mickey7 and the others on his crew are colonists on a hostile planet far from their original home) Mickey Barnes has, through some truly idiotic decisions, ended up acquiring so much gambling debt that he now has to leave the planet. Literally the only way he can do that is to go with the space expedition, which is setting off to colonise the far-off planet of Niflheim. Unfortunately, […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, adapted into film, Aliens, cbr17, cbr17bingo, cloning, colonisation, diaspora, Edward Ashton, Mickey7, Nowhere Book Bingo

Malin's CBR17 Review No:42 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, adapted into film, Aliens, cbr17, cbr17bingo, cloning, colonisation, diaspora, Edward Ashton, Mickey7, Nowhere Book Bingo ·
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A doozy of a book!

You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White

July 15, 2025 by LB 2 Comments

You Weren’t Meant to be Human fulfills the “black” square on CBR17 Bingo I had Andrew Joseph White on my radar from his debut, but it wasn’t until Compound Fracture that I finally read one of his books. Even though most of his books haven’t exactly been for me, I have a special spot in my heart for Appalachia, and especially West Virigina because it will always be home. So when I saw AJW’s upcoming adult debut was set in WV, I knew I needed to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Aliens, Andrew Joseph White, austism, bodily autonomy, body horror, cbr17bingo, pregnancy, queer, trans, West Virginia, you weren't meant to be human

LB's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Aliens, Andrew Joseph White, austism, bodily autonomy, body horror, cbr17bingo, pregnancy, queer, trans, West Virginia, you weren't meant to be human ·
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Cover of Watch Your Orbit by Etta Pierce

Aliens being aliens

Watch Your Orbit by Etta Pierce

July 9, 2025 by LB Leave a Comment

Watch Your Orbit fulfills the “rec’d” square on CBR17 Bingo My good friend Seher is someone whose recommendations I always trust, but I’m not always very quick to pick up the books. Such is the case with Etta Pierce’s Intersolar Union universe, which Seher has been shouting about for over a year, and I finally picked up Watch Your Orbit, which is the first book in the Over the Moon spin-off tie-in where the humans that have been rescued are building a home and community […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: alien, alien romance, Aliens, cbr17bingo, Etta pierce, intersolar union, Jamaican FMC, M/F romance, over the moon, queer norm world, scifi romance, watch your orbit

LB's CBR17 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: alien, alien romance, Aliens, cbr17bingo, Etta pierce, intersolar union, Jamaican FMC, M/F romance, over the moon, queer norm world, scifi romance, watch your orbit ·
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Much Bigger CW Needed

Dan Da Dan vol. 1 by Yukinobu Tatsu

June 29, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have seen Dan Da Dan manga all over social media/the internet, so when I saw volume 1 at the library I picked it up out of curiosity. The premise is interesting: two high school outsiders, one obsessed with aliens, the other believes in spirits, dare each other to prove the other person’s belief is invalid by sending each other to the most likely haunted/abduction sites in the area, per the web. Guess what happens next? One thing I hadn’t noticed initially was that there […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror Tagged With: Aliens, content warning, Dan Da Dan, high school, manga, speculative, Spirits, violence, Yukinobu Tatsu

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:32 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror · Tags: Aliens, content warning, Dan Da Dan, high school, manga, speculative, Spirits, violence, Yukinobu Tatsu ·
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Best book of 1998?!

The Decision by K. A. Applegate

Megamorphs 2: In the Time of the Dinosaurs by K. A. Applegate

The Departure by K. A. Applegate

June 9, 2025 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

It’s possible that the best book I’ve read all year is a thirty year old Animorphs book. This whole batch of books is a lot of fun, but book 19 is next level. Book 18, The Decision, is an Ax the Andalite book, and it’s quite good. I think I mention this in an earlier review, but one crazy sci-fi element of the Animorphs books comes to morphing animals that are smaller than oneself. If you, as a human, morph into a tiny cockroach (yes, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Aliens, animorphs, dinosaurs, k.a. applegate, middle grade, the 1990s, time travel

cosbrarian's CBR17 Review No:37 · Genres: Children's Books, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Aliens, animorphs, dinosaurs, k.a. applegate, middle grade, the 1990s, time travel ·
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