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Things just keep looking darker and scarier for the Locke children

December 31, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

SPOILER WARNING! This review may contain some spoilers for the plots of the two volumes in question.  In volume 4, Keys to the Kingdom, the three Locke siblings are still fighting against the Dark Lady, whose inhabiting the body of the person they think is their friend Zach. He’s posing as Kinsey’s affectionate boyfriend and Tyler’s loyal friend, trying to get one of the siblings to reveal where the crucial and powerful Omega key is hidden. Over the course of this volume, the Locke children seem […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: cbr9, clockworks, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, Graphic Novel, horror, joe hill, Locke & Key, Malin, the Keys to the Kingdom

Malin's CBR9 Review No:130 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery · Tags: cbr9, clockworks, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, Graphic Novel, horror, joe hill, Locke & Key, Malin, the Keys to the Kingdom ·
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Every ninety years, twelve gods are reincarnated as humans. Two years later, they are all dead…

December 31, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They appear as rock stars and are loved and hated in equal measure. In two years, they are all dead. The lesson they need to learn is: just because you’re immortal, doesn’t mean you’re going to live forever. In the first volume of The Wicked + The Divine we are introduced to Laura, a seventeen-year-old from London who is utterly devoted to the various recently incarnated gods, who appear as rock stars of various genres all over the city. After […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery Tagged With: cbr9, gods, Graphic Novel, Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, Malin, paranormal fantasy, rock stars, The Faust Act, The Wicked + The Divine

Malin's CBR9 Review No:128 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery · Tags: cbr9, gods, Graphic Novel, Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, Malin, paranormal fantasy, rock stars, The Faust Act, The Wicked + The Divine ·
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NOT one of the Top 10 romances of the year. Not even Christina Lauren’s best romance this year.

December 31, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

Holland Bakker is trying to be a writer, but two years after graduating from college, still doesn’t really feel like she has anything to write about. The apartment she lives in is in part paid for by her wealthy uncles, and even her job, as a stagehand/photographer at the Broadway theatre where her uncle is the musical director is thanks to him. She’s feeling adrift and like a bit of a scrounger, and desperately wishes she could find some purpose. For more than six months, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbr9, Christina Lauren, Contemporary Romance, Malin, musicians, new york, Roomies

Malin's CBR9 Review No:127 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr9, Christina Lauren, Contemporary Romance, Malin, musicians, new york, Roomies ·
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A lovely and enjoyable Christmas romance

December 31, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

Perpetual optimist Eva Jordan loves the Christmas holidays, but this year, still mourning her beloved grandmother who passed last year, it’s getting more difficult for her to summon up her holiday cheer. Now that her two best friends and business partners are both in happy relationships, Eva’s goal for the Christmas season is meeting someone she might find happiness with too. But first she has a job to do. One of her elderly clients has hired her to decorate her grandson’s luxurious penthouse apartment while […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbr9, christmas, Contemporary Romance, From Manhattan with Love, Malin, Miracle on 5th Avenue, new york, Sarah Morgan

Malin's CBR9 Review No:126 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr9, christmas, Contemporary Romance, From Manhattan with Love, Malin, Miracle on 5th Avenue, new york, Sarah Morgan ·
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All y’all talking about Rothfuss were right

December 31, 2017 by llp Leave a Comment

It feels like I have been reading people talk about how awesome Patrick Rothfuss is for years, although the talk seems to centre more on him than his book. I finally picked up the first one in the series this summer and then had to tear through the second immediately afterwards, all within a week. It was like I was shovelling the food in my face like I did when my kids were tiny. I read these months ago, HAD MANY THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr9, fantasy, Fiction, gentlyfalling, lip, Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear

llp's CBR9 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr9, fantasy, Fiction, gentlyfalling, lip, Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear ·
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Black girl poetic magic

December 30, 2017 by teresaelectro 1 Comment

Electric Arches is collection of poetry by Eve L. Ewing. Her poems muse on the black experience. She reveals painful moments of racism she encounters and add in handwritten font her imagined replies to the N-word. She writes odes to her musical heroes in “Appletree [on black womanhood, from and to Erykah Badu] and “On Prince”. Each poem describes how their music touched her soul. She uplifts the ordinary with her words adding a fantastical gloss of wonder. “so in this world, grease is a compliment, no […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: black experience, black girl magic, black speculative fiction, cannonball read 9, cbr9, Electric Arches, Erykah Badu, Eve Ewing, Eve L Ewing, hair love, magical realism, music, poetry, Prince, Racism, shea butter

teresaelectro's CBR9 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: black experience, black girl magic, black speculative fiction, cannonball read 9, cbr9, Electric Arches, Erykah Badu, Eve Ewing, Eve L Ewing, hair love, magical realism, music, poetry, Prince, Racism, shea butter ·
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