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Just a few long-leggedy beasties

Beats of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

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I was 100% not in the mood for this book and probably should have put it down as soon as I realized that. The thing is, it’s hard to put down a new release library book knowing you’ll have to go to the back of the lengthy hold queue. Still, I wasn’t in the mood for something whimsical and slightly cutesy, so I didn’t enjoy Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance as much as I think I might have at a different point in time. The plots aren’t at all similar, but this one had the same sort of feeling as The […]

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2/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Visiting the Land of Stories

The Wishing Spell: The Land of Stories vol. 1 by Chris Colfer

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On the recommendation of a friend, I bought The Wishing Spell for my 9 year old daughter last year for our family winter solstice book exchange.  She devoured it and immediately began urging me to read it.  “Mom, you’ll really like it.  It’s so good!”  So far in her life I’ve always been the one making recommendations of what to read.  She was very excited to have a book she wanted to share with me.  “It’s as good as Harry Potter!”, the highest praise she can bestow on a book.  However, I put her off because my TBR pile is deep […]

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12/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

Shades of Magic

Shades of Magic Trilogy by V.E. Schwab

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As with my last review, this was a re-read for me as well. Well, most of it was a re-read. I had actually read the first two books of this series, A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows, previously and decided to re-read them before reading the final book, A Conjuring of Light. I really enjoyed these books and what I enjoyed most are the two main characters. The first character we meet is Kell. An Antari (blood magician), Kell is from Arnes, also known as Red London, and he is the most powerful magician in a […]

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11/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

A quick sojourn in the world of The Wheel of Time

New Spring (in 'Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy') by Robert Jordan (ed. Robert Silverman)

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A few caveats before I begin: I read this novella in the collection Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg (thus the confusing author/title data provided above.) It’s also where I first read The Hedge Knight (George RR Martin). Even though it’s a novella, I’m counting it as a book–partly because I don’t really want to read most of the other entries in the collection. Maybe the Le Guin one someday, if I read more of the Earthsea novels, and likewise King’s if I read the Dark Tower novels, but I have carefully avoided Terry Goodkind, was never big on Orson Scott Card, and have rarely […]

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7/21/2017 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

“I’m just like my country. I’m young and scrappy and hungry.”

Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

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HALF CANNONBALL!!   I don’t usually finish a book and then immediately pick up the sequel. Now usually that’s because I don’t yet own the sequel but also I tend to want a change of pace genre-wise. But in the case of The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen, I had to know what happened next. Fortunately, I had the first two books in the series already on my kindle (and I’m currently kicking myself for not picking up the third when I had the chance). The Tearling series is a fast paced, genre bending work of fiction that […]

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7/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

Transgender superhero YA.

Dreadnought (Dreadnought, #1) by April Daniels

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Danny Tozer has always known she should have been born a girl, and we know this on the first page. The first scene of this book features her hiding in an alley, dressed otherwise like a male, and painting her toenails; this is the only outlet she has as a closeted trans fifteen year old in an emotionally abusive household (her dad is a colossal asshole). But everything changes when her toenail painting session is interrupted by a superhero/supervillain fight. Dreadnought, one of the most powerful superheroes, is shot and killed in front of her by the villainous Utopia, but he before he dies, […]

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6/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

Solid fantasy with a comfortable feel

The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

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It has been months since I last reviewed a book! Shock, horror. Partly, it’s the fault of the PhD–I’ve had some busy deadlines for my thesis, as well as the teaching that comes with it. (Marking 80 essays in essentially 2 weeks is not recommended, nor is it conducive to a happy, relaxed mindset for reading.) I also am happy to report that I finished (the first draft) of a novel myself in that time (don’t try writing a novel while writing a PhD, peoples; sometimes the last thing I wanted to do when not on my ‘day job’ of […]

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4/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

Over there, inside the Smoke, pain was joy and anger peace. Violence was love.

Smoke by Dan Vyleta

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The alternative world presented in Smoke is a fascinating idea, and a mix of ideas I was thrilled to be spending time with. In Vyleta’s altered Victorian England sinful thoughts and feelings are manifested as smoke that rises from your skin and leaves a unwashable soot behind. Breathing in the smoke of another can spread their feelings into you, and breed more and darker thoughts. The cleanest of people, who happen also to be the wealthiest, are seen as morally better people, and spend their lives learning to control and repress their Smoke. Two boys from a high class boarding school are sent […]

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3/24/2017 's CBR9 Review No:5 |


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