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“Bad Llama. Level 3. It’s a llama, but it’s bad. If he were human, he’d be covered in prison tattoos and would be hanging out in front of the Circle K hitting on 14-year-old girls.”

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

August 3, 2025 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Rec’d (I honestly don’t know how many people have raved about this book, on CBR, other review sites on the internet, as well as in my IRL book club) By now, most people who are even vaguely interested in this series probably know what it’s about, but I’ll try to give a brief summary. Carl is wandering around, half-dressed in the snow, looking for his ex-girlfriend’s prize-winning Persian cat, when Earth is suddenly attacked by aliens. All the buildings collapse in an instant […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, audiobook, Cats, cbr17, cbr17bingo, Dungeon crawler Carl, Dystopian, funny, games, Jeff Hayes, LitRPG, Malin, Matt Dinniman, rec'd

Malin's CBR17 Review No:44 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, audiobook, Cats, cbr17, cbr17bingo, Dungeon crawler Carl, Dystopian, funny, games, Jeff Hayes, LitRPG, Malin, Matt Dinniman, rec'd ·
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Cozy romantasy in which game night is the wildest part

Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne

August 3, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 3: TBR I recently saw book four in the tetralogy at an airport bookstore, and realized that I still had book 3 on my TBR shelf (literally, physical book on actual shelf). Tea You at the Altar is book 3 of the Tomes and Tea series, and like the two previous volumes is a cozy romantasy. Kind of fitting actually, since I’m pretty sure I picked up book 1 in an airport as well. This time, the story is less about the tea and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, LGBTQ romance, Rebecca Thorne, Romance, romantasy, tea you at the altar, tomes and tea

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:36 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, LGBTQ romance, Rebecca Thorne, Romance, romantasy, tea you at the altar, tomes and tea ·
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Copy of Assassin's Apprentice on a bed with a cat

“They’re the ones who’ll hate you / When you think you’ve got the world all sussed out”

Assassin's Apprentice (1995) by Robin Hobb

August 1, 2025 by drmllz 6 Comments

He goes by ‘Boy’ for his first years, then ‘Fitz’ and ‘Bastard’, then FitzChivalry Farseer, illegitimate son of Chivalry Farseer, son of the enigmatic King Shrewd. This is for the Bingo Family square; Fitz has a family, a name, a legacy–but he never knew his own father, his grandfather buys his loyalty rather than offering him affection, and one of his uncles wants him humiliated at best and dead at worst. I read Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy when I was a teen with the time […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, drmllz, family square, robin hobb

drmllz's CBR17 Review No:8 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, drmllz, family square, robin hobb ·
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Probably a great satire, what do I know. CBRBINGO – Purple

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis

August 1, 2025 by narfna Leave a Comment

I’m sad I didn’t like this one very much. It was much less fun and funny than I was hoping it would be, with that premise. (That premise: a young couple’s five year old daughter is bitten by a werewolf and then becomes a werewolf herself, upon which they discover there is a secret magical world among the mundane one. Then there is a PTA, but at a mAgiC sChOoL.) Where I wish this had been more lighthearted and focused on the school and magic […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Caitlin Rozakis, cbr17bingo, contemporary fantasy, narfna, Satire, The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, werewolves

narfna's CBR17 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Caitlin Rozakis, cbr17bingo, contemporary fantasy, narfna, Satire, The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, werewolves ·
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Stand Back Everyone!

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

July 29, 2025 by Debcapsfan 2 Comments

CBR Square- Borrowed Rebecca Yarros is about to reinvent the fantasy genre with Fourth Wing! It has sexy times in it, and no fantasy novel in recent times has people enjoying each other’s company! Sigh. I borrowed this for my audible subscription. It was fine. There were actually some things that I liked about this book. I liked the main character Violet has strengths and weaknesses. She has to use her brain to get herself out of situations where other people just use brute strength. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, Rebecca Yarros

Debcapsfan's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, Rebecca Yarros ·
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The Male Loneliness Epidemic

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

July 28, 2025 by Debcapsfan 2 Comments

CBR Square- Red A friend of mine recommended I watch The Magicians, so I picked up the audiobook to see if I would like it in a general way. I had known that the book is pretty different from the tv show but I thought it would give me a general idea. A few years ago there was a big deal made about how men don’t really form deep friendships anymore and there was a male loneliness epidemic. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/17/1263527043/its-been-a-minute-male-loneliness-epidemic-real. I am not fully sure why […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, fillory, lev grossman

Debcapsfan's CBR17 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, fillory, lev grossman ·
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