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Redemption for the Great Library

Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine

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Bingo 12 (Youths!) I have to admit I’d really gotten close to giving up on The Great Library Series. The last volume was pretty bad; it had little action, and a lot of the characters started to look bad or empty. Thankfully, many of those issues were resolved in Smoke and Iron (Great Library #4). Smoke and Iron begins where Ash and Quill left off. Jess and his twin Brandon have switched places, and “Brendan” goes to the Great Library to hand over Morgan (beloved of Jess and powerful Obscurist who now can suck the life out of anything living) […]

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8/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

“I want a man who stays out of my way.”

Waistcoats & Weaponry (Finishing School, #3) by Gail Carriger

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All right, I liked this one quite a bit. I’m invested in the series now. But I’m still only giving this 3.5 stars, rounded up, because it shouldn’t take you two books to be emotionally invested. I should have been in like Flynn after book one. Anyway, I finished this book in a frenzy and immediately wanted the next one (which I’m not getting to until next month, sadface), so that’s a great sign. Sophronia and Co. are halfway through their second year at Madame Geraldine’s Finishing School. Sidheag receives notice that something is wrong with her pack (werewolf) and leaves school […]

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2/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Overall an amazing alternate history but what I really appreciated was the portrayal of the main character’s anxiety

The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal

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Mary Robinette Kowal seems to lean towards alternate history in her speculative fiction writing.  The Glamourist Histories re-imagines the regency era with illusion magic.  Ghost Talkers creates a WWII in which spiritual mediums talk to recently dead soldiers to get information on battles.  In The Lady Astronaut novels, Kowal has dreamed up an alternate timeline where a gigantic meteorite strikes the Atlantic just off the East coast of the United States in 1952, destroying much of the Eastern seaboard and annihilating most of the US government.  Recovering from that would have been bad enough but due to hitting the water instead of land, […]

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1/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

I hate me some damn rebs.

How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove

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I’ve been an avid reader of history for most of my life, and I’ve long been fascinated by alternate history. It’s almost impossible to read history without wondering how much of the world would be different with a minor change or two. For all that, I’ve only ever read The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (years ago). I thought it was okay, but not really what I wanted. How Few Remain takes place in the early 1880s, during the presidency of James G. Blaine. In the real world, Blaine is the only Republican nominee between 1860 […]

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1/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Another Question for Some Other Midnight

Hogtown Market (Feral Seasons Book 2) by Marianne Kirby

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Hank Goodness is back — from a lot of things — and in Hogtown Market she trades one kind of trouble for about seven or so more. I had a habit of going along and being easy until I had an idea of what might happen next, but experience had taught me some good reasons not to do that anymore. (All quotes from the kindle version and I don’t have page numbers, sorry; title of this post is also a novel pull-quote) Minor spoilers ahead. Also, a side note of a sort: I am usually either the person who sits […]

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9/4/2018 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

The start of a very weird series

Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

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So I was going along, listening to the book, and it was all fine, and then all of a sudden, I came to a realization.  “Wait a minute, this is JESUS!” Yes, this all seems to boil down to a second coming of Christ (or Christ-like character.) (Or something to do with Mormons. I’m not sure.)   This is an alternate history of Frontier era of America.  From what I quickly read of the introduction before I started, I knew there would be some differences, the main one being that of the presence of a sort of magic.  What threw […]

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7/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

Sex and skullduggery

The Queen's Bastard by C.E. Murphy

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The Queen’s Bastard is set in an extremely thinly veiled alternate Elizabethan era Europe, where Queen Lorraine has sat on the throne of Aulun for years, keeping a firm grip throughout the machinations of her rivals, Sandalia and Irina (Lorraine’s name kept making me snigger, sounding as it does far more like the name of your nan’s bingo friend than a queen) Lorraine has never married, instead dangling her virginity and hand in marriage as prospective cards for an alliance. She has, however, had a secret child with her closest advisor, who has been raised with one clear use in […]

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6/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

I Want to Live in the World Where This is the Real History

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

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emmalita’s review of this novel intrigued me, and given my interest in certain periods of English history, I was curious to see how an alternate history of Jane Grey would work.  Lady Jane Grey is one of those historical figures I have honestly not done that much reading on.  She held the title of queen for nine days after the death of her Protestant cousin King Edward, and always felt more like a pawn trapped in historical circumstances.  Her cousin knew he was dying, and did not want to see his throne go to his Catholic sister Mary, knowing she […]

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5/22/2018 's CBR10 Review No:83 |


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