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The Fellowship Diverges and Reconverges

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

May 8, 2023 by Tracy Leave a Comment

Spoilers ahead, I guess, for those who aren’t familiar with how all of this ends. Part 1 (or Book III as it’s called in the book, because each of the 3 novels is divided into 2 books) of The Two Towers begins by following Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas as they try to track Merry and Pippin, who have been taken by Orcs. Sadly, Boromir died in the Orc battle, though not without putting up a strong fight. We discover that Gandalf lives. We meet the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: fantasty, J.R.R. Tolkien

Tracy's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: fantasty, J.R.R. Tolkien ·
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Whimsey in the Face of the Mundane

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune

December 16, 2022 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

This was a gift from last year’s book exchange, and while I finished it a while back, I think I put off reviewing it because I prioritised all the Hugo works for Bingo instead; I had a harder time fitting this into my scorecard calculus! What this did mean though is that I had some extra time to read through a second time around. And would you believe it was even more wonderful the second time? At the start of The House in the Cerulean […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a little found family as a treat, cozy, fantasty, my heart, TJ Klune

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a little found family as a treat, cozy, fantasty, my heart, TJ Klune ·
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Your Favorites Can Still Write Stinkers

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

September 14, 2022 by Jake 3 Comments

Read this as part of CBR14Bingo: heart. One of the characters has a heart attack, won’t say which one. Also, Stephen King is a writer who has my heart. I love his books but this one was bad. I don’t really know where to start with how much I did not enjoy this book. And I feel terrible for that because I love Stephen King and appreciate what he is trying to do: rewrite beloved fantasy tales as a means of pandemic escapism. But ugh, this is […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: cbr14bingo, fairy tale, fantasty, Stephen King

Jake's CBR14 Review No:168 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: cbr14bingo, fairy tale, fantasty, Stephen King ·
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Is this what people do?

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

August 25, 2021 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR13 BINGO: Rec’d square (Cannonball Read has been my go-to when looking for something to read for as long as it has been around. That’s over a decade of recommendations, folks. One of the greatest loves of my reading life is Rainbow Rowell and I have to thank many, many great Cannonballers for that. So, I’m stretching the Rec’d Square here a bit because it wasn’t one specific Cannonballer who recommended this book in particular. It was a group effort recommending the author in general. While I may have come […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: CBR13, cbr13bingo, fantasty, Fiction, Rainbow Rowell, simon snow

Leedock's CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: CBR13, cbr13bingo, fantasty, Fiction, Rainbow Rowell, simon snow ·
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Political Thrills in a Cataclysmic World

City of Stairs (The Divine Cities Book 1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

City of Blades (The Divine Cities Book 2) by Robert Jackson Bennett

City of Miracles (The Divine Cities Book 3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

October 13, 2019 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

In my review of Red Rising, I asked about what it is that makes you decide whether or not to embark on a new series. Once again, I would like to build off this to ask a slightly different question – what makes you decide to back to a series that you left by the wayside? I hadn’t meant to abandon reading Robert Jackson Bennett’s Divine Cities Trilogy. But unfortunately, life got in the way. I got introduced to the series via the Hugo Awards […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: And So It Begins, cbr11bingo, City of Blades City of Miracles, City of Stairs, fantasty, political thriller, Robert Jackson Bennett, The Divine Cities

LittlePlat's CBR11 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: And So It Begins, cbr11bingo, City of Blades City of Miracles, City of Stairs, fantasty, political thriller, Robert Jackson Bennett, The Divine Cities ·
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Three orogenes walk into a bar…

The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin

July 16, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo – And So It Begins   This trilogy has long been on my radar and I picked it up on vacation at the beginning of the month, knowing that I’d have a few interrupted days to really dig my teeth into them. [the bonus I didn’t realize until after the fact: each book satisfies a bingo square requirement; thank you vacation-packing gods] The Fifth Season introduces us to The Stillness, a fictional, futuristic land. It’s a land populated by humans, but some of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: andsoitbegins, cbr11bingo, fantasty, nkjemisin, thefifthseason

kella's CBR11 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: andsoitbegins, cbr11bingo, fantasty, nkjemisin, thefifthseason ·
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