Harmony Black is a by-the-book FBI agent. She’s also a witch. For years she has worked special cases – ones that involve things that normal people would never accept nor believe. Finally she has gotten a break and taken a much needed vacation, only to get called back in for an emergency case. This time, Harmony is to work with a group of other special agents (known as the Circus) to take down the Bogeyman, a being that abducts children and one Harmony knows all […]
Georgie’s marriage is in trouble. She and her husband, Neal, end up in different cities for Christmas – she makes a last-minute decision to stay in L.A. to work on an important new project for her work, while Neal takes their two daughters to Omaha for Christmas as originally planned. This is the first time in 15 years the two have been apart for any length of time, and Georgie and Neal left each other on very tense terms. Georgie, a television writer, leads a […]
CBR8 Reviews 5-7 I binged through the first three books in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series in about a week’s time. Unlike my previous three book binge, this one was out of sheer pleasure. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is the head of the Surêté du Québec and he and his team are assigned to look into a suspicious death in a small town outside of Montreal called Three Pines. In Three Pines, we meet a cast of characters and most of the first book […]
YA version of The Bachelor masquerading as dystopian fiction
CBR8 Reviews 2-4 Let’s just get this out of the way up front: these books are dumb. I tried, I really did, but man are they painful. So be warned, there shall be ranting and SPOILERS ahead (I’ll mark where the spoilers start later in the post.) America Singer (yes, that’s a name) is a seventeen-year-old girl, the middle of five children of a family of artists. In their society, the family is considered a Five. Ones are the most privileged – the Royal […]
Consider me a Fangirl fangirl
Cath wants to be a writer, but she doesn’t want to write just anything. You see, Cath is a Simon Snow (this fictional world’s version of Harry Potter) fan. She might even be the biggest Simon Snow fan there is. She spends most of her time writing fan fiction about Simon and his nemesis, Baz, and it’s the only thing she loves to do, but she can’t do it forever and she’s not sure she’s up to the task of writing anything else. With an […]