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Cosplay and Confrontation by Sarah Zane

Reindeer Games (Ace's Wild Book 6) by N.R. Walker

A Doctor’s Touch: An Erotic Queer Novella (Ram Skin Book 1) by A.A. Fairview

February 12, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Cosplay and Confrontation By Sarah Zane Gwen has screwed up everything. She is supposed to be one of the headliners at the Portland’s biggest LARP/cosplay convention. However, after breaking up with her boyfriend Artie and running away to San Francisco to live with her new “boyfriend,” none of her former friends will even speak to her. She desperately wants to explain what happened, but that would mean admitting the reason why she broke up with Artie. Lanie cannot believe she trusted Gwen. The three of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: A.A. Fairview, cosplay, masquerade ball, N.R. Walker, Portland, queer romance, Sarah Zane, secret identities, trans character, vampire, werewolf

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: A.A. Fairview, cosplay, masquerade ball, N.R. Walker, Portland, queer romance, Sarah Zane, secret identities, trans character, vampire, werewolf ·
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Great premise about a character who is freed from a cult but wants to go back; did not like where he went with it.

First, Become Ashes by K.M. Szpara

June 1, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I am going to continue reading this author’s books because I always find them compelling and interesting, but I think I might have to get the next one from the library instead of buying a pricey hardcover on the back of a tasty premise. This one is making me feel saucy. I was really looking forward to this book! The premise sounded amazing, and I love reading about cults, fictional or not. But the author took it in a direction that I thought was the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cosplay, cults, Fiction, first become ashes, K.M. Szpara, LGBTQIA, narfna, Polyamory, speculative

narfna's CBR13 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cosplay, cults, Fiction, first become ashes, K.M. Szpara, LGBTQIA, narfna, Polyamory, speculative ·
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Lost in Translation or Indecision

Every Tool's A Hammer by Adam Savage

May 12, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

For the record, I haven’t finished Every Tool’s A Hammer yet, but I’m 99% sure the remaining 2/3 of it is not going to change my thoughts. I loved the original Mythbusters, as well as the recent Mythbuster’s Junior (I hope there is more of that). So naturally, I decided I wanted to read Adam Savage’s new book. You can tell it’s his voice, but it’s not nearly as entertaining to follow in print as it is in performance/action. The book can’t decide if it’s […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: adam savage, cosplay, every tool's a hammer, making, Mythbusters, scientific process

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:29 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: adam savage, cosplay, every tool's a hammer, making, Mythbusters, scientific process ·
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