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Dreadful in name only

Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw

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Yay for new kinda favorite series! The thing for me that distinguishes a favorite from something enjoyable is how re-readable a book is. While I was waiting for the second book to get to my mailbox, I reread the first, and it was as much fun as the first time. After reading Dreadful Company (book 2), I started rereading it about a week later. Still fun. Dreadful Company features many of the same characters from the first novel including Dr. Greta Helsing, physician to things that go bump in the night, Ruthven the vampire, Varney the vampyre (there’s a technical […]

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6/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

City of Glass by Paul Auster

Ghosts by Paul Auster

The Locked Room by Paul Auster

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I think I either almost read or tried to read this when I was younger — college aged or so — and for whatever reason didn’t. I kind of wished I had stuck with it, because I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more then. That’s not to say that a) I feel like I have missed out all these years or b) that I happen to like it now. I didn’t exactly like this book, and maybe don’t feel like I have anything to say about the different parts of the series to really indicate why, so […]

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6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:352 |

A girl, her ghost friend, and adventure in Edinburgh (bonus review from Ysakitty)

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

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Previous novels by Victoria (V.E.) Schwab were intended for adults and teens, City of Ghosts was written for a middle grade audience.  I give it a three stars for being a solid book but no higher as it shared several concepts with her “Monsters of Verity” duology, which were the most recent books of Ms. Schwab’s that I’ve read. As a result, City of Ghosts didn’t feel very fresh to me,  especially when you take into account the variety of her collected works. In City of Ghosts, as in “Monsters of Verity”, you have a loner girl, an unnatural being for a companion, glowing life force […]

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5/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Consider my Pot, Boiled

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

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It started with John Constantine, grouchy creepy detective magician, solving petty punk mysteries and sassing demons.  I love a good pot boiler, but I like them with wizards, or gods, or most preferably ghosts.  My collection is an embarrassment of sassy magicians solving ghost crimes. An anonymous Twitter surfaced in my feed one day to recommend the short story A Dead Djinn in Cairo. Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities must investigate the potential suicide of powerful djinn and oh my god five pages in I already knew I was going to buy […]

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5/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Good installment

A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman

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Phil Rickman writes women very well. Merrily is such a wonderfully drawn character, but she isn’t the only well written woman in the book.  Rickman writes women as people, and, correctly, does not have them think or describe the women in terms of their boobs.  Rickman is also aware of how differently society would see a woman in a situation as opposed to a man.  This is used wonderfully as Merrily’s backstory makes it to social media.  Merrily’s reaction to the problem is one that most women would have, as opposed to one that some men would think women have. […]

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1/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Ending with a Zombie Killing Porn Star and a Priest in a Bar

Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

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I continue with my end of year promise to finish several started but unfinished books before beginning anything new. Next up: Devil Said Bang, Sandman Slim #4. Maybe it was the month or few between starting and picking it back up, but this one seemed to have a lot less action, and a lot more of Stark inside his own head or contemplating his situation or himself. I’m not complaining about this, it just seems a little different from the previous novels in the series. I had about two-thirds of the novel left, and I finished it in an evening. […]

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1/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Not just a mystery, but an educational mystery

The Ghost Wore Gray by Bruce Coville

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We have a tradition at our annual work party of a book exchange.  You get a book that has something to do with history (I work at a historic site) and you gift-wrap it.  Everyone who brings a book gets a number, and then the first person unwraps a book. The next person can either unwrap a book or steal the book the first person unwrapped, and so on.  Most people try not to spend much, if anything on the book. So I went to the basement of my local library to where they have books on sale for $.25, […]

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1/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Childhood favorite

Stonewords: A Ghost Story by Pam Conrad

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I’m not sure how old I was when I first read this book, but I do remember that it was a favorite.  Some parts of this have stuck with me for over twenty years, influencing how I think ghost stories should work.  Having been born in 1986, I still definitely feel like we 90s kids got the best ghost stories.  We had a lot of authors that we still pass on to younger generations today.  I’m honestly horrified when I meet a young reader-especially of fantasy-who doesn’t know Vivian Vande Velde or Patricia Wrede.  But it’s easy to remember and […]

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11/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:5 |


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