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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Getting ready for the endgame.

January 21, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

There are only two more volumes after this one, so it’s apparently time for Locke & Key to get ready for the endgame. For as fun as the last couple issues have been (and by “fun” I mean horrifying and interesting and really hard to put down), once everything was introduced in Vol. 1, everything was actually pretty status quo, relatively speaking. New keys, Dodge trying to manipulate the Lockes while hiding in plain sight, bad things happening all over the place . . . but in Keys […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Comics, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, horror, joe hill, keys to the kingdom, Locke & Key, narfna

narfna's CBR8 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Comics, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, horror, joe hill, keys to the kingdom, Locke & Key, narfna ·
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Seriously imaginative fantasy/horror.

January 21, 2016 by narfna 1 Comment

This series is so imaginative. And the further in you get, the more stuff it throws at you. I’m actually finding it really difficult to write about it because the more detailed it gets, the weirder it gets, and the more impossible it becomes to talk about. Tyler, Kinsey and Bode have somewhat adjusted to living in Keyhouse, and to using the keys, but their mother is only falling apart harder and faster. The still mysterious Dodge is seeking the Omega Key, the key that will […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Comics, crown of shadows, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, horror, IDW, joe hill, Locke & Key, narfna

narfna's CBR8 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Comics, crown of shadows, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, horror, IDW, joe hill, Locke & Key, narfna ·
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I wonder what the inside of *my* head would look like . . .

January 21, 2016 by narfna 1 Comment

I am really digging this series, ya’ll. The artwork is still hit or miss for me when it comes to the characters, but the story more than makes up for it. So in Vol. 1 we were introduced to the Locke family, who have just lost their patriarch due to a violent murder, and have moved to their family home, a house that is so stately it actually has a name: Keyhouse. We were also introduced to the idea that something is off at Keyhouse, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Comics, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, Head Games, horror, IDW, joe hill, Locke & Key, narfna

narfna's CBR8 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Comics, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, Head Games, horror, IDW, joe hill, Locke & Key, narfna ·
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Go Ask Malice

January 20, 2016 by SomethingIshy 2 Comments

This book needs a trigger warning (if you’re into that sort of thing.) It’s rare that a “dark” spin on the Alice mythos actually lives up to that (shallow) attribution. This one’s filled with so much violence (sexual violence, regular violence, torture) that even the decapitation-happy Queen of Hearts would be like “Damn, girl, you went there?” It’s a pretty good book, but it’s important to know what you’re getting into. See above re: violence, but also know that it’s almost entirely violence against women. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Alice in Wonderland, dreadpunk, fantasy, Fiction, steampunk

SomethingIshy's CBR8 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Alice in Wonderland, dreadpunk, fantasy, Fiction, steampunk ·
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A Continuing Royal Saga/Magic, Hearts, and Paper Dogs

January 20, 2016 by ModernLove Leave a Comment

Two reviews for the price of one! The Selection is one of those series I’m going to have to read to completion. The fifth (and I believe final) book is out in the spring, so in anticipation, and because I needed something light and fluffy to read, I finally picked up The Heir, the fourth book in this royal saga. About 20 years have passed since Maxon’s Selection was completed, and people ain’t happy. The caste system is gone, but there are still riots and people […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Charlie N. Holmberg, fantasy, kiera cass, magic, modernlove, the heir, the paper magician, the selection, YA lit

ModernLove's CBR8 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Charlie N. Holmberg, fantasy, kiera cass, magic, modernlove, the heir, the paper magician, the selection, YA lit ·
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Do you have a clue what happens now?

January 18, 2016 by baxlala Leave a Comment

This is the sequel to Throne of Glass, the first in a series of at least four books. Again I find myself having started a series that has not yet ended. I hate that. Anyway. In Throne of Glass, Celaena Sardothien, a world-renowned assassin, participated in a competition to choose the King’s next Champion. Celaena, being no fan of the king, was only competing to save her own life, but, since she’s basically a killing machine with pretty hair and a fondness for reading, she […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: baxlala, fantasy, sarah j maas

baxlala's CBR8 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: baxlala, fantasy, sarah j maas ·
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