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The Power by Naomi Alderman

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The Power is horrifying in a lot of ways, one of which is how parts of it are also rather cathartic, which it shouldn’t be on the whole. If that opening sentence sounded a little confused and contradictory, that’s because it reflects my feelings about the thing. On the one hand, it’s about women getting to win, but on the other hand, the violence and abuses of power by men and women make it hard to feel good about anything, because it comes off as altogether misanthropic. Toward the middle of the book, when tables were turning and men were […]

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10/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Dark secrets

The Giver: Graphic Novel by Lois Lowry

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#cbr11bingo #Award I have never read the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, but thought I knew the story. I had read the second book, Gathering Blue and read about and talked about The Giver. Plus, I figured I know the authors style as well. It is sweet and “happy edgy.” You know good things can happen, even when bad things are going on. Yet, when I read The Giver: Graphic Novel I was blown away. This is not just due to the story (I now need to reread the second book and find the two squeals) as it is […]

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9/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:386 |

California here we come; right back where we started from

California by Edan Lepucki

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Some dystopia novels are trying to be literature, some are trying to be good trashy fun, some are trying to be profound and fail terribly, some are just way off the mark. Then there’s the category I’d put California in, which is the kind of book that doesn’t really seem sure of what it’s doing, and thus never really makes a mark on the genre or the reader. Meet Cal and Frida! They’re a typical 20-something couple in the 2050s just trying to make it in a shack in the woods so they don’t have to face the brutal reality […]

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9/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Familiar and Strange

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Messenger by Lois Lowry

Son by Lois Lowry

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I was 11 when The Giver was published, and I remember my 7th grade English teacher, the next year, reading it aloud to my class. It was my first exposure to dystopian fiction and I ate it up. Everyone in my class had their own copy so we could follow along, and within a few years my copy was completely dog-eared and tattered, as I read and reread. At some point, having moved on to more sophisticated dystopias as I got older, it ended up in the giveaway box and I haven’t read it or thought about it in years. […]

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7/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

The zombie apocalypse will be televised

Blackout (Newsflesh #3) by Mira Grant

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The final part of the Newsflesh trilogy is a fitting end, even if it didn’t quite hit the exciting heights of the series opener. It’s going to be really hard to review this one without dropping a couple of major spoilers for this and the previous books, so if you haven’t already read them, click away now… SPOILERS BELOW… We rejoin the surviving members of our team with them in hiding with the doc, catching her live zombies for her to experiment with and exposing Sean to the virus as much as possible to test the limits of his newly […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

“How foolish we were, to act as gods.”

Your One & Only by Adrianne Finlay

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For 300 years, there have been no humans on earth – at least not as we know them. As it became clear that the human race wouldn’t survive the Slow Plague, scientists formed an initiative to save humans by creating our survivors in a lab. Nine perfect humans were created – homo factus – and they were cloned and continue to be, creating the new society that now inhabit the earth.  Each of the three communities left on Earth maintains a society of 900 humans, 100 of each of the original nine homo factus spaced over generations. The Kates tended towards […]

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6/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

When you’re dead sober and the penguin, cat and ghost-grasshopper are talking to you

Entropy by Aaron Costain

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If you liked Entropy by Aaron Costain , this review is not for you. Entropy is the kind of book you want to read, probably should read, but when you do read, you have NO idea what is going on. Yet, since you want to be “part of the cool crowd” you will say how wonderful and marvelous it is. I am not ashamed to say, “I do not get it.” Actually, let me backtrack, I understand the different creation myths are being spoken about and how they come into the need for man to understand “where he came from” […]

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4/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:144 |

“War eats the victors last.”

Iron Gold (Red Rising #4) by Pierce Brown

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The Red Rising series continues to be incredibly compelling and well-written, though I admit that I was concerned about Iron Gold. I had read that extending beyond the original trilogy wasn’t part of Pierce Brown’s original plan, so I wasn’t sure if this was going to be a reflection of an author caught in the vortex of a world they’d created, but lacking the clear vision of the first phase of books. What became clear was that the story beginning with Iron Gold IS going to be messier than the arc of the original trilogy, but that’s a natural consequence […]

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2/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |


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