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“Because love is real, and it happens everywhere. It even happens here.”

For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

April 11, 2022 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

For the Love of April French is an immensely readable book with a strong authorial voice that is a wonderful fluffy romance playing in the D/s kink realm. It’s the story of April and Dennis who have a temporary no-strings sex agreement, but Dennis is secretly trying to woo April, which is a great trope to build an emotions-first BDSM romance around. Dennis and April are wonderfully flawed and human characters. Aimes writes with her characters humanities front and center. April and Dennis can be […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: bdsm romance, debut novel, For the Love of April French, kink, Penny Aimes, queer romance, trans woman lead

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:33 · Genres: Romance · Tags: bdsm romance, debut novel, For the Love of April French, kink, Penny Aimes, queer romance, trans woman lead ·
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“I am both ever evolving and ever decaying.” or another book in need of a CW

Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn

February 19, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Something is going on with my reading this year, I seem to be swinging back and forth between 5-star books and 2-star ones, which means I should have anticipated trouble with Charm and Strange based purely on it falling in my reading order behind Boyfriend Material. This one didn’t make me angry as some of my other two star reads, Always, in December and Seduction, but it flirted with the line. This 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris Award is designed to be read […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: Charm and Strange, debut novel, needed a CW, read harder challenge, Stephanie Kuehn

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Young Adult · Tags: Charm and Strange, debut novel, needed a CW, read harder challenge, Stephanie Kuehn ·
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Illustration of Night Sky, asian female below a golden moon, surrounded by flowers & swirls

“Whichever story you believe, my mother, Chang’e, became immortal. As did I.”

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

October 19, 2021 by NTE 1 Comment

A child of the Moon Goddess, and an immortal herself,  Xingyin grows up on the moon, with just her mother & their family servant/long time companion. For the most part, the three of them are happy, if isolated. Xingyin senses a grief in her mother that she can’t quite explain, and within herself she feels a growing sense to reach out … for something more. She can’t label it, and her mother has warned her against reaching for it, but the pull towards that other […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Also look at this cover, beautiful cover art, cbr13bingo, chinese culture, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, debut author, debut novel, dragons, legends, moon goddess, mythic, myths, NetGalley, Sue Lynn Tan

NTE's CBR13 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Also look at this cover, beautiful cover art, cbr13bingo, chinese culture, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, debut author, debut novel, dragons, legends, moon goddess, mythic, myths, NetGalley, Sue Lynn Tan ·
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But They Made Up Their Minds, If All Roads were Blind, They Wouldn’t Give Up Till They Died

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

July 5, 2021 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

Brutal and beautifully written, Jordan Harper’s debut novel, She Rides Shotgun, hooked me before the end of the first chapter and was hard to put down even as I wanted to look away.  The body count is high but so was my investment in the main characters, eleven-year-old Polly McCluskey and her ex-con father, Nate. When Nate shows up at Polly’s school, Polly knows something is off because she thought her dad was still in prison.  What she doesn’t know is that her mom and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: debut novel, Edgar Award Winner, jordan harper

Jenny S's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: debut novel, Edgar Award Winner, jordan harper ·
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Reconstruction Reimagined

The Conductors by Nicole Glover

June 6, 2021 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

I remember reading something about Nicole Glover’s novel before it came out and thinking, “That sounds funs.”  It did not disappoint.  The story is set in the Reconstruction of the 1870’s but this is a reimagining of historical events with magic as an important element.  Before the war, Hetty Rhodes, a former slave, was a conductor on the Underground Railroad using magic, smarts, and luck to bring other slaves north to freedom. Now that the Civil War has ended, Hetty and her husband, Benjy, are […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: alternate history, debut novel, Nicole Glover, Reconstruction

Jenny S's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: alternate history, debut novel, Nicole Glover, Reconstruction ·
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cbr12bingo – Repeat (and TWO Bingos!)

Luster by Raven Leilani

September 13, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Raven Leilani has exploded into the scene like the chestburster in Alien. Fully-formed, unapologetic, covered in blood, and completely in control while annihilating the guts of a mediocre man. Luster has been racking up well-deserved accolades, and I truly cannot wait to see what she does next- although I am relieved that this is her debut, and there isn’t a back catalog waiting to destroy me hiding just out of view. Not only is her work fantastic, but it also allows me to knock two “bingos” (Money, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: adulthood, Ariel Blake, art, bingo, black voices, cbr12bingo, debut novel, failure, family, generational trauma, New York City, open marriage, Racism, Raven Leilani, repeat square, sex, UnCannon

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:100 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: adulthood, Ariel Blake, art, bingo, black voices, cbr12bingo, debut novel, failure, family, generational trauma, New York City, open marriage, Racism, Raven Leilani, repeat square, sex, UnCannon ·
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