Cannonball Read 11

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Apologies to whoever sat next to me while I read this

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

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The Library at Mount Char is a strange book. Sometimes it’s really interesting and suspenseful; other times, it’s horrific (as in horror literature, not general quality). The thing is, at least for me, is that the two don’t quite mesh together. The general story follows Caroline and Steve, who apparently has some kind of criminal past but now lives a quiet life as a plumber. He meets Caroline who seems a little off but who offers him an unusual amount of money to help her break into somewhere to retrieve something. She’s that specific. The story then shifts back and […]

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4/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Part 2 of the trilogy is the worst, even in book 3

The Dragon Lords Bad Faith by Jon Hollis

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The Dragon Lords: Bad Faith is divided into 3 parts, and is itself part 3 of a trilogy. I rather enjoyed part 1 (Fools Gold), hated part 2 (False Idols), and part 3 was kind of meh. It wasn’t as bad as part 2 with no one to root for, and it added some good characterization and a few new characters, but it was also 200 pages too long. The second part of the book is ironically yet appropriately titled “Bad Decisions”, one of which IMHO was to include this section in the final published novel. Part 1, “Bad Luck” […]

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3/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Every ninety years, twelve gods are reincarnated as humans. Two years later, they are all dead…

The Wicked + the Divine: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

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Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They appear as rock stars and are loved and hated in equal measure. In two years, they are all dead. The lesson they need to learn is: just because you’re immortal, doesn’t mean you’re going to live forever. In the first volume of The Wicked + The Divine we are introduced to Laura, a seventeen-year-old from London who is utterly devoted to the various recently incarnated gods, who appear as rock stars of various genres all over the city. After she passes out at one of Amaterasu’s concerts, she is introduced to “Luci”, the current […]

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12/31/2017 's CBR9 Review No:128 |

Prophecies, magic and lust

A Promise of Fire (The Kingmaker Chronicles Book 1) by Amanda Bouchet

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A Promise of Fire is the first entry in Amanda Bouchet’s Kingmaker Chronicles. Our heroine protagonist, Cat, has been on the run for the past 8 years. At the start of this novel, she blends in with a magical circus. She tells fortunes and does fire tricks to pay her way. The circus becomes her adopted family with Cat helping out with performances from time to time. Things were going pretty well until a strange man catches her eye. He gives off the aura of a warrior with his big strong arms and arrogance. He is not alone, four strong men flank […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

God bless busybody community matriarchs, and all that sail in them.

Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

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More, please. More, more, more. I just love me some Peter Grant. And fair warning to the reader who may be interested in this series: this book, Broken Homes, which is Book 4 of the “Rivers of London” series, isn’t the strongest of the bunch. But it’s still a delight and a treat, and I will fight anyone who isn’t a fan. Listen, I have five more “Dark Tower” books to read in the next five weeks, but I still just checked out Foxglove Summer (Book 5 of “Rivers of London”) from the library, and investigated the graphic novel series […]

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6/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.

Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

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Oh boy, did I miss Peter Grant while I was taking my super fun journey through the last four heartwrenchers. It felt like I was waiting FOREVER for Whispers Under Ground to become available at the library. Peter Grant is a delight. He is the perfect not-very-straight straight man for all the madness in this fantastic world of Ben Aaronovitch’s creation. I keep reminding myself as I read these books that for all of Grant’s self-deprecation and insistence that he’s a terrible cop with bad instincts, and for all that the non-magical higher-ups on the force hate him and the […]

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6/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

“But. My hammer,” said Thor.

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

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Before I read it, it felt like I’d been waiting for Norse Mythology my entire life. In the sense that I wanted it so badly the minute that I heard that it was coming. So, oops. It’s fine, but it’s not, like, life-alteringly amazingly incredible. I could have waited another minute before reading it. Taken a breath. Read something else. Taken this to the beach. Which isn’t to say it’s not a delight, it’s just that it doesn’t take a thing and change everything you’ve known about it while remaining true to the thing you knew, and make it all […]

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4/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

He’d spent time rehearsing this serene pose

Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe

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This was a kind of a placeholder for me. I’m not allowing myself to reread American Gods again, because I reread it less than a year ago, and I love it too much, and the TV series is coming, and it’s my favorite kind of book, so I had to find a proxy, and this looked super interesting. And it was good, but not amazing (nothing is American Gods, goddamnit!). I think the hardest for me was that Ike is no hero, antihero, complicated scamp, or ingenue answering the call, he’s just a flawed man with a terribly flawed plan. […]

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4/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:9 |


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