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I don’t get it.

January 24, 2015 by soapyme Leave a Comment

Take one ex-famous painter, Lenny from Of Mice and Men, and Amy Dunne from Gone Girl. Shake well and see what happens. Apparently, Theft is what happens. Michael “Butcher” Boone has had a string of bad luck. He was once a celebrated artist – in Australia, anyway – but his star is on the wane. He had a messy divorce, lost custody of his young son, and was jailed after trying to steal back his paintings from his ex-wife. Now, thanks to one of his collectors, Butcher is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: art, contemporary, Peter Carey

soapyme's CBR7 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: art, contemporary, Peter Carey ·
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Inseparable.

January 23, 2015 by alwaysanswerb Leave a Comment

5 ‘HOPELESSLY IN LOVE’ STARS! Goodreads summary: “Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives. Meanwhile, Lincoln O’Neill can’t believe this is his job now- reading other people’s e-mail. When he applied to be “internet security officer,” he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: contemporary, Love, Rainbow Rowell, Y2K

alwaysanswerb's CBR7 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: contemporary, Love, Rainbow Rowell, Y2K ·
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Unmoved

January 2, 2015 by alwaysanswerb Leave a Comment

The Unbroken trilogy is composed of three novellas about a group of young adult friends living in a small town in Texas. Each story is a very quick read that will probably take no longer than 2 hours for the average reader, and they’re very simple HEA (happily ever after) erotic romances that prominently feature insta-love and plenty of sex. Overhead is the story of how Luke overhears his good friend Gracie complaining to another mutual friend at a get-together that her boyfriend didn’t satisfy […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: contemporary, erotica, maya banks

alwaysanswerb's CBR7 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: contemporary, erotica, maya banks ·
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“It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.”

October 9, 2014 by alwaysanswerb 2 Comments

The Magician’s Land is an exciting and satisfying end to a trilogy that had its ups and downs, but was nevertheless entertaining and always delivered on complex characters. Not to draw too clear of a parallel between the main character, Quentin, and the author here — because I’m sure Lev Grossman is not, and never was, the little shit that Quentin started out as — but I genuinely feel that there is some symmetry between the quality and goal of each of the books and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: alwaysanswerb, contemporary, lev grossman, magicians

alwaysanswerb's CBR6 Review No:69 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: alwaysanswerb, contemporary, lev grossman, magicians ·
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Or, The Shock of the Fall

September 28, 2014 by popcultureboy Leave a Comment

‘I’ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he’ll be dead. And he was never the same after that.’ Published in the USA as “Where The Moon Isn’t”, I have no idea why. Nathan Filer won the Costa Book of the Year award last year  for this intensely well crafted debut novel, and now I have read it, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, contemporary, debut, mental illness, Nathan Filer, schizophrenia, The Shock of the Fall, Where The Moon Isn't

popcultureboy's CBR6 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, contemporary, debut, mental illness, Nathan Filer, schizophrenia, The Shock of the Fall, Where The Moon Isn't ·
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Writer Friends Series

September 23, 2014 by NTE Leave a Comment

I’m going to be discussing a series of books – all part of Rachel Gibson’s Writer Friends series- and, naturally, the summaries for the next books might have spoilers for the previous books: just a brief warning before we start. Also, I may have cursed once or twice because one of the heroes royally pisses me off. In Sex, Lies & Online Dating, a crime-novelist using online dating to research her next book happens to overlap with an undercover cop on the lookout for a serial-dating, serial […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: contemporary

NTE's CBR6 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: contemporary ·
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