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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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Am I losing my sense of humor, or is Christopher Moore losing his?

Anima Rising by Christopher Moore

October 25, 2025 by KimMiE" 1 Comment

CBR 17 BINGO: Arts, because Gustav Klimt and his contemporaries figure into the plot Double BINGO! Across: Arts, Borrow, Citizen, Work, White Diagonal: Arts, Red, N, Diaspora, Rec’d I’ve been a Christopher Moore fan for a long time. (Who doesn’t love Lamb and The Stupidest Angel?) Not all his novels are brilliant, and even in my own household we don’t always agree on what works and what doesn’t (I love Fool and its sequels, while my husband doesn’t care for them at all; he loves […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr17, cbr17bingo, Christopher Moore, comedy, KimMiE"

KimMiE"'s CBR17 Review No:35 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr17, cbr17bingo, Christopher Moore, comedy, KimMiE" ·
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Moving Past Trauma Into Joy

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

October 24, 2025 by RouletteGirl Leave a Comment

When they were just shy of eighteen years old, Eva Mercy and Shane Hall spent one intense and life-altering week together. Fifteen years later, Eva is a best-selling erotica writer living in Brooklyn with her pre-teen daughter. Shane is the reclusive darling of the literary circuit, whose award-winning books are beloved by all. They have not spoken once in all those years. But Shane unexpectedly shows up at a panel on Black literature where Eva is a panelist, and the two cannot deny that their […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: cbr17, Tia Williams

RouletteGirl's CBR17 Review No:25 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cbr17, Tia Williams ·
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Alex Easton Comes to America!

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher

October 24, 2025 by RouletteGirl Leave a Comment

Alex Easton, our beloved Gallacian sworn soldier, is back for another adventure, accompanied as always by the stalwart manservant Angus. Alex has been summoned to America, of all places, by their friend Dr. Dennison, who was one of the witnesses to the horrors that unfolded at the house of Usher. Dennison’s cousin has gone missing while exploring an abandoned coal mine in the wilds of West Virginia, and Dennison thinks that something supernatural may be afoot. Alex, who is certainly not claustrophobic, agrees to travel […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: cbr17, t kingfisher

RouletteGirl's CBR17 Review No:24 · Genres: Horror · Tags: cbr17, t kingfisher ·
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Imagine Douglas Adams on Cocaine

Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente

October 20, 2025 by RouletteGirl Leave a Comment

In Space Opera, we met Decibel Jones, former frontman for British glam band Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes, and followed him as he was conscripted into a mission to prove humanity’s sentience – and thus save them from extermination – by placing anything but last in the Metagalactic Grand Prix. Think Eurovision, but in space! Spoiler alert, Decibel Jones succeeded, with the help of a time-traveling red panda and the resulting appearance of a younger version of his long-dead drummer, Mira Wonderful Star. As […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Catherynne M. Valente, cbr17

RouletteGirl's CBR17 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Catherynne M. Valente, cbr17 ·
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“What we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

October 17, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nowhere Book Bingo 25: A Bookish Memoir/biography CBR17 Pie Chart: Education CBR17 Bingo: Citizen (Nafisi lived and taught in Iran during increasingly more dictatorial strictures against its citizens) Official summary: Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, authoritarianism, Azar Nafisi, BIPOC, cbr17, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, cbr17bingo, dictatorship, feminism, friendship, liteature, literary analysis, Malin, non fiction

Malin's CBR17 Review No:61 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, authoritarianism, Azar Nafisi, BIPOC, cbr17, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, cbr17bingo, dictatorship, feminism, friendship, liteature, literary analysis, Malin, non fiction ·
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