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Bee biology re-imagined through the language of human dystopia

The Bees by Laline Paull

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The Bees is a very weird and cool book that’s a third-person narrative of a literal bee, navigating the dystopian politics of her hive. There are a lot of tropes in here that are not exactly unique to this book among the glut of other dystopian fiction, but the framing of the insect colony is novel. While, naturally, some liberties are taken with facts, the structure and major events of the novel are based on known entomology of bees and how hives operate. All that Paull really needed to do to turn reality into fiction was to choose a point […]

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12/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

This is the version of this story that I was looking for

Dating You/ Hating You by Christina Lauren

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A few years ago, there was a book called The Hating Game that featured two people in competition for the same job and even as they pretended to hate each other, sparks were flying and it turned out they actually liked each other very much. Everyone loved that book. I kind of thought it was just okay although I tried very hard to like it. This book has a VERY similar premise and I like it much more. Rather than the romantic comedy contrivance of introducing the characters as “hating” each other (even though it’s quite obvious to the reader […]

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11/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

I came to this book both too early and too late

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

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Well, this book ages really, really poorly. Some spoilers below. It reads exactly like the time it was written (1989): “progressive” enough to include, at least superficially, a cast of characters including a same-sex couple and people of color in mixed-race relationships, as well as treatment of the AIDS epidemic and drug abuse that leans more sympathetic than condemning. However, it’s not exactly “woke” enough to avoid stumbling into some major Don’t Do That’s. Weetzie, pixie bohemian darling protagonist, is signified as being creative and unique in part thanks to her habit of incorporating Native American flourishes into her fashion. […]

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11/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

A magical sports world where every athlete is uncommonly attractive and devoted to true love

Game On Series (#1-4) by Kristen Callihan

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Kristen Callihan is a hot name in NA, for her Game On series, which are football romances between the athlete heroes — all of whom are as astonishingly dedicated to academic/intellectual pursuits as to football — and heroines who are very outspoken about how little they are impressed with the formers’ football fame. The books tend toward insta-lust that becomes love *quite* quickly. I’m not bothered by insta-lust/love unilaterally, but if you read too many of that type of story in a row, the heat loses some of its effect. Taken on their own however, Callihan clearly knows how to […]

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11/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

Novik’s books aren’t just about magic; they are magic

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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Uprooted was one of my favorite books of the last few years, and possibly ever. Since I’d never read Novik’s Temeraire books, I had no idea if it was a particular stroke of genius from her, or if she’s just always been consistently great and I never knew. I still haven’t read Temeraire, but now that she’s 2/2 for me with Spinning Silver, the imperative to do so becomes more pressing. Here is the summary from Goodreads: “Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge […]

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11/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

Boundary-crossing erotica that’s Courtney Milan approved

The Original Sinners - The Red Years #1-4 by Tiffany Reisz

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It’s been a minute since I’ve written a review, and I feel like I’ve forgotten how to do it. Let’s pretend I was never gone and this is actually going to be competent, shall we? So I said right in the title of this review that this is Courtney Milan approved erotica, which is a kind of flippant way of saying she gave it a 5/5 star rating with about a billion caveats. Specifically, I’m referring to this review of The Siren, the first book in the series. Being an author herself and better with words than I’ll ever be, […]

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8/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

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 |


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