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“When you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why”

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

February 14, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR15 Passport Challenge – New to me author Five years ago, blonde and beautiful high school girl Andie Bell was murdered, although no one ever found her body, despite careful searching. However, Andie’s boyfriend Sal Singh confessed in a text message to his dad and then committed suicide before he could be arrested by the police. So everyone knows that he did it, and the case is closed. Pippa Fitz-Amobi remembers Sal Singh as a kind and considerate young man, with a promising university career […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: a good girl's guide to murder, CBR15, CBR15Passport, contemporary fiction, Holly Jackson, Malin, murder, mystery, teenage sleuth, Young Adult

Malin's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: a good girl's guide to murder, CBR15, CBR15Passport, contemporary fiction, Holly Jackson, Malin, murder, mystery, teenage sleuth, Young Adult ·
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A sweet, short read.

The Library by Bella Osborne

November 13, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a nice read. A bit misleading of a title—it’s less about the library than you’d think—but nice. As with many three-and-a-half-star books for me that are just good reads—nothing out of the ordinary or particularly noteworthy, but nothing worth criticizing either—it’s pretty hard to drum up a review. Especially since I have forgotten all the characters’ names and just had to look them all up. Through a series of charmingly contrived circumstances, sixteen-year old Tom and seventy-two year old Maggie become friends through […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bella Osborne, British, contemporary fiction, Fiction, narfna, The Library

narfna's CBR14 Review No:185 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bella Osborne, British, contemporary fiction, Fiction, narfna, The Library ·
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Duck Heist!!!! #CBRBINGO – Bird

Flying Solo by Linda Holmes

November 3, 2022 by narfna 1 Comment

This is a silly, inconsequential—one might almost say *cozy*—book that is largely about the retrieval of a wooden duck, and I liked it very much. I really love Linda Holmes. I’m in for her whole thing, after this book. I was hoping Evvie Drake Starts Over wouldn’t be a fluke, and it wasn’t. While I didn’t like Flying Solo as much as I loved Evvie Drake, this was a really good time. You don’t often get stories from the POV of a woman who isn’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: capers and heists, cbr14bingo, contemporary fiction, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, flying solo, Linda Holmes, m/f, narfna, Romance

narfna's CBR14 Review No:179 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: capers and heists, cbr14bingo, contemporary fiction, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, flying solo, Linda Holmes, m/f, narfna, Romance ·
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“Sometimes it seems like writing is the only way I keep from hurting.”

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

November 1, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR14 Bingo: Verse (the whole book is written as poems) Xiomara and her brother Xavier (who Xiomara mostly refers to as Twin) are miracle babies, born late in life to their parents, who never believed they would have children. Growing up in Harlem, New York, they’re nevertheless part of the Dominican culture of their immigrant parents. Their mother is deeply religious and was possibly going to be a nun before she met their dad, whose wandering eye meant he got around plenty before marrying. While […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, culture clash, elizabeth acevedo, family, Immigration, Malin, poetry, slam poetry, the poet x, verse, Young Adult

Malin's CBR14 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Young Adult · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, culture clash, elizabeth acevedo, family, Immigration, Malin, poetry, slam poetry, the poet x, verse, Young Adult ·
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If you think your flat is haunted by a murderous ghost, why would you try to summon said ghost?

Svarte-Mathilda by Tor Arve Røssland

October 17, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Twenty years after a teenage girl was brutally murdered in a small town near Bergen, Elizabeth moves into the long-empty flat with her mother. Elizabeth’s parents are going through a divorce, and in a tragic accident a while back, Elizabeth’s older brother died in a fire. She hates that they had to move away from her old home and her friends in Bergen, that her mother doesn’t seem to want to talk to her at all, and she certainly doesn’t like their new […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr14, contemporary fiction, ghosts, historical fiction, horror, Malin, murder, mystery, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Svarte-Mathilda, Tor Arve Røssland

Malin's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: cbr14, contemporary fiction, ghosts, historical fiction, horror, Malin, murder, mystery, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Svarte-Mathilda, Tor Arve Røssland ·
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“Over her golden yard and the glittering hills beyond, into the darkness of the trees…”

Golden Age by Jane Smiley

July 11, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

***Spoilers throughout*** Well, I finished this trilogy and this was a better book than the second one. I think because Smiley starts killing people off in this one, the cast feels less unwieldy and more focused. This book is more of a victory lap in terms of drawing everyone’s narratives to a close. I again had the issue that such dramatic things happen to these people that it feels unrealistic and kept taking me out of the narrative. Any time I spend most of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: American History, contemporary fiction, family drama, historical fiction, jane smiley

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:71 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: American History, contemporary fiction, family drama, historical fiction, jane smiley ·
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