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Dark horse favorite YA ‘verse

Six of Crows, Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #1,2) by Leigh Bardugo

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Something about the original Grisha trilogy has really stuck with me. At the time that I finished Ruin and Rising, the third book in that series, my passion and protectiveness of the main character Alina inspired a ranty, off-topic diatribe of a review about shipping wherein I was basically mad that other readers didn’t appreciate the book and the ending of the trilogy because they were mad their ship didn’t become canon. It’s a silly thing to become incensed about, but clearly something in the book made me very defensive, and whatever that thing is drove me to recall that […]

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7/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:35 |

Flirting over artifacts and forgeries

Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

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I’ve had Bound By Your Touch on my reading list for a long time, probably because at some point it was recommended by Malin or Mrs Julien or both. As per usual, a rec from these ladies turned out to be a pretty lovely romance. Heroine is Lydia Boyce, a spinster bluestocking (my favorite!) who works for her father in the trade of collectible Egyptian artifacts. Boyce Sr. is an academic archaeologist actively excavating, and Lydia is essentially his business manager back in Egypt. She earns her meet-not-so-cute with Viscount Sanburne when, in the middle of one of her lectures, […]

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7/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. ”

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

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Alias Grace is Margaret Atwood’s imagining of the true story of Grace Marks, a convicted (and later pardoned) murderess… “Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word—musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.” … in 19th century Canada whose sensationalistic trial left doubt as to the nature of her involvement in the double murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/mistress Nancy Montgomery. Atwood utilizes what is […]

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6/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

A righteous defense of a difficult book

After the Wedding (The Worth Saga #2) by Courtney Milan

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When an author of Courtney Milan’s caliber takes as much time as she (admittedly) does between books in her series, you often cope — as I did — by re-reading a bunch of her back catalog in between. Every re-read reminds you how she is working on another level from most other romance authors right now, between the articulation of the themes she explores and the maturity of the relationships she crafts. When her new book finally drops two years later, you hope, and expect, that she manages to up the ante in some way. The Worth Saga promises that […]

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5/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

Skip if you’re more of a SF/Adventure fan, but try if you liked Station Eleven.

Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

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3.5 stars Good Morning, Midnight is a perfectly nice book that I just didn’t vibe with. I appreciated what it was trying to do, and I’d say it even succeeded at it, but my taste and expectations are a little bit more “genre” than this ended up being. Goodreads summary: “Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the sky for evidence of how the universe began. At his latest posting, in a research center in the Arctic, news of a catastrophic event arrives. The scientists are forced to […]

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5/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

Unpretentious, brilliant, engaging sci-fi.

Young Miles (Vorkosigan Saga Omnibus #2) by Lois McMaster Bujold

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Two books into the Vorkosigan Saga, and I’m increasingly flabbergasted that it took me so long to read not only this series, but Bujold in general. These books are so competently written, and I want that understatement to be interpreted as laconic reverence, and not as an underhanded jab. The writing is uncomplicated and efficient, and is a real testament to the power of honestly good storytelling. A lot of sins can be forgiven by covering them in flowery, lyrical, and highly figurative prose. Bujold’s writing, on the other hand, offers itself bare; the characters speak plainly, the plot develops […]

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5/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

This review is completely fine

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

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I really can’t review books like this very well and my failure to do so has resulted me being nearly two months behind in my reviews, so it’s past time to just bang something out and apologize to Gail Honeyman for not giving it my best efforts. Synopsis from Goodreads: “Eleanor Oliphant is a bit of an odd ball. She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, sometime wearer of an eczema glove), means that Eleanor has become a bit of a loner – or ‘self-contained […]

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4/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

“You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.”

Cordelia's Honor (Vorkosigan Saga Omnibus #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

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The Vorkosigan Saga is one of those classic SF series that has been a little intimidating to me because there are so many books in the series, and the suggested reading order of the series is not the publication order, so it doesn’t naturally lend itself toward easily identifying the “next” book in the series. Cordelia’s Honor is actually an omnibus edition comprised of Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan #1) and Barrayar (Vorkosigan #7)(???) Here’s a short plot description from Goodreads for both of those: Shards of Honor – “When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade […]

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3/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |


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