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Well worth the re-read

World's End (Age of Misrule, Book 1) by Mark Chadbourn

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I first read The Age of Misrule trilogy decades ago and seem to remember thinking it was only OK, but since then I’ve found my mind often returning to some of its scenes and ideas and so decided it was high time for a re-read. Based on the first book, so far my re-read has discovered that, while it has its flaws, my younger self was far too scathing in my initial assessment. In World’s End, we meet five strangers drawn together to try and avert an apocalypse. The Age of Reason is over, and creatures from legend are starting […]

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12/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:80 |

The perfect ending to a spellbinding series

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

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For the first time in my life, it turns out that I know someone who knows someone, which is how I managed to get my eager little hands on a pre-release copy of The Winter of the Witch, the final instalment in Katherine Arden’s fantastic Winternight Trilogy. And what a treat it was. Taking everything I loved from The Bear and the Nightingale (and missed most in The Girl in the Tower, namely the chyerti of the forest and the homestead) and ramping it all the way up to 11, The Winter of the Witch was a superlative ending to […]

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12/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:79 |

Naomi Novik is two for two in my book (I still need to read Temeraire!!)

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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I read most of this book in a day. It was so charming and lovely. In the vein of Uprooted, Spinning Silver is another loosely inspired retelling of a fairytale, this time Rumplestiltskin. I’m honestly not sure which book I liked better. It’s been a while since I read Uprooted, and this book is one of those that gets better in your head the longer you sit with it after you finish. Our Rumplestiltskin is actually one of our heroines, Miryem, the daughter of a moneylender (a historically Jewish profession, as usury was against Christian beliefs, though that didn’t stop them from borrowing […]

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8/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:101 |

Why is it always the deal breakers that end up the hero in fairy tales?

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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While I definitely grew up with all the normal fairy tales that inspired Disney movies, I also remember Rumpelstilzchen (German version) leaving a deep impression.  I can’t remember if it was because the story creeped me out (I mean, he tears himself in two when he loses the deal) or if I thought there was something unjust about the treatment of either him or the spinner’s daughter but I certainly thought it was an interesting choice when he became such a central figure in Once Upon a Time’s spin on fairy tales. At its most basic, Spinning Silver is a […]

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7/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:135 |

Enchanting, atmospheric (and timely) read

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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This week, the UK has been hit by massive* snowstorms that disrupted travel pretty much everywhere, as well as practically-arctic winds that have dropped temperatures to shockingly low*. Also this week, I was supposed to fly across the country for my PhD viva. Well–that didn’t happen. So I read The Bear and the Nightingale instead. And it was just the most perfect book to read during this kind of weather! The book takes place in a barely-fictional Russia in the Middle Ages. The fantasy elements come from the interweaving of elements of folklore. It follows the family of Petyr Vladimirovich, especially […]

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3/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

What Did I Just Read?

The Changeling by Victor Lavalle

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This wasn’t a bad book. The writing was good enough that I blew through it in about 3 sittings and I wanted to keep reading, so there’s that. But I was disappointed. And I feel guilty that I was disappointed, especially since Lavalle is a talented writer and a lot of things in this story worked really, really well. But there was also a lot that didn’t, at least for me. I can’t appropriately talk about this book without spoilers, so stop reading here if you think you want to give this a shot. Plot Summary: the Changeling follows Apollo […]

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9/1/2017 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

For the night is dark and full of terrors

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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Disclaimer! I recieved an ARC copy of this through NetGalley. That has in no way influenced my review. Pyotr Vladimirovich is a boyar, the lord of northerly and remote Lesnaya Zemlya in medieval Russia. A part of the world where the winters are long and harsh and isolate the populace, it’s no wonder that the cold, dark nights are spent telling fairy stories, like those of Morozko or Lord Karachun, the Frost demon himself – who sometimes rewards those who are brave and pure of heart with treasures beyond their wildest dreams, while he punishes the greedy and claims their […]

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2/22/2017 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

A marked improvement on the first one

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

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3.5 stars Spoiler warning! This is the second book in a trilogy. I will be unable to review the book without possibly giving away spoilers for the first book in the series, Shadow and Bone. Which is obviously the one you should start with if you’re interested in this series. After the rather dramatic show-down with the Darkling at the end of the last book, Alina and Mal are on the run, trying to get as far away from Ravka as possible. Having to hide her Grisha powers and suppressing her abilities is making Alina frail and she feels constantly […]

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11/7/2016 's CBR8 Review No:113 |


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