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Things just keep looking darker and scarier for the Locke children

Locke & Key, vol 4: The Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

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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 to be attacked more and more frequently and only towards the end of the volume […]

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12/31/2017 's CBR9 Review No:130 |

Every ninety years, twelve gods are reincarnated as humans. Two years later, they are all dead…

The Wicked + the Divine: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

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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 she passes out at one of Amaterasu’s concerts, she is introduced to “Luci”, the current […]

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12/31/2017 's CBR9 Review No:128 |

NOT one of the Top 10 romances of the year. Not even Christina Lauren’s best romance this year.

Roomies by Christina Lauren

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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, she’s been going several blocks out of her way to and from work, just so […]

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12/31/2017 's CBR9 Review No:127 |

A lovely and enjoyable Christmas romance

Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan

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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 he’s away at a writing retreat. Eva’s job is to make it cheerful for Christmas […]

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12/31/2017 's CBR9 Review No:126 |

All y’all talking about Rothfuss were right

The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

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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 then stopped reviewing for a while. As a result, I will do both of these […]

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12/31/2017 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

Black girl poetic magic

Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing

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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 it’s a weapon, no, it’s a dream you had, where it was cold and your […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

Who knew running away to nerd-camp could be so complicated?

Not Now, Not Ever by Lily Anderson

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From Goodreads: Elliot Gabaroche is very clear on what she isn’t going to do this summer.  1. She isn’t going to stay home in Sacramento, where she’d have to sit through her stepmother’s sixth community theater production of The Importance of Being Earnest. 2. She isn’t going to mock trial camp at UCLA. 3. And she certainly isn’t going to to the Air Force summer program at her mom’s base in Colorado Springs. As cool as it would be to live-action-role-play Ender’s Game, Ellie’s seen three generations of her family go through USAF boot camp up close, and she knows it’s much less […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:125 |

Not exactly like the TV show, but still very good

Jessica Jones: Alias, vol 1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos

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From the blurb: Meet Jessica Jones. Once upon a time, she was a costumed superhero…but not a very good one. Her powers were unremarkable compared to the costumed icons that populate the Marvel Universe. In a city of Marvels, Jessica Jones never found her niche. Now a chain-smoking, self-destructive alcoholic with a mean inferiority complex, Jones is the owner and sole employee of Alias Investigations – a small, private-investigative firm specialising in superhuman cases. When she uncovers the potentially explosive secret of one hero’s true identity, Jessica’s life immediately becomes expendable. But her wit, charm and intelligence may just help […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:124 |


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