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Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving by Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg

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Cbr14bingo Bodies – Bingo Mobituaries is a fascinating, eminently readable collection of humorist Mo Rocca’s obituaries for people and phenomena that didn’t get the attention they deserved at their passing. It’s the kind of book you can just pick up, open at random and immediately be drawn in. Certainly, some of the subjects of Mobituaries are people you have heard of (Audrey Hepburn, Herbert Hoover) but Mo Rocca will reveal things about them that might not have been featured in a traditional obituary or that […]

The sunshine and the grumpy one – now with added crime!

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

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CBR14 Bingo: Gaslight (Marian was lied to and manipulated by the duke, book also set in the Georgian era) Spoiler warning! I’m going to do my best to review this book without spoiling major plot points from The Queer Principles of Kit Webb or this book, but if you want to remain fully unspoiled, you’d probably want to skip this review until you’ve actually read the book. Which you should (read the book, I mean), it’s absolutely marvellous. Marian Hayes, believed to be the Duchess […]

This book kicked me in the stomach, clubbed me over the head and said, “The end!”

The Storm of Echoes: The Mirror Visitor Book 4 by Christelle Dabos

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Cbr14bingo Heart — this book broke my heart and I’m angry Writing a review for this fourth and final installment in Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor series is going to be tough for a few reasons. All the story lines that have been set up in the previous books have to be resolved here and I’m not going to lie, things get super complicated and kinda weird. The other problem is that, having just finished the series, I am feeling emotionally drained. The author has […]

“Spite was honor when it was the only weapon you had against someone more powerful” – BINGO!

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

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4.5 stars CBR14: Rec’d (this has been recommended by multiple Cannonballers and pretty much every romance review blog I can think of) Edward Percival “Percy” Talbot, Lord Holland, returns to England after several years abroad in Europe to discover that his mother died in his absence, and his deeply unpleasant father hastily remarried, to Percy’s best friend from childhood, Lady Marian Hayes, who also had time to birth Percy a baby sister. Furthermore, Marian reveals that a blackmailer has contacted her with proof that the […]

Still hooked on this series

The Memory of Babel: The Mirror Visitor Book 3 by Christelle Dabos

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Cbr14bingo Hot the action moves from the icy land called the Pole to a hot and lush place called Babel The plot definitely thickens in this third installment of the four part Mirror Visitor series. The action moves into two different areas as Ophelia and Thorn pursue the one called “God,” aka “Milliface,” a malevolent shapeshifter that tries to manipulate all of the arks in order to assert total domination over the world. As with the previous novels, Dabos gives readers plenty of edge-of-your-seat action […]

A little mystery and a lot of court intrigue

The Missing of Clairedelune: The Mirror Visitor Book 2 by Christelle Dabos

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Cbr14bingo Elephant (memory) the recovery of one character’s memories is key to the plot Book two of Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor series continues to enthrall. Main character Ophelia, who has the gifts of being able to travel through mirrors and “read” the history of objects in her hands, and her betrothed Thorn, the prickly Treasurer of the remote ark known as The Pole, are fast approaching their wedding day and seem no closer to developing a meaningful bond to each other. Meanwhile, in the […]



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