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The found family narrative works better than the romance

Love at First by Kate Clayborn

February 23, 2021 by Malin 1 Comment

3.5 stars Disclaimer! I got this book as an ARC from NetGalley. That has in no way influenced my review. Sixteen years ago, Will Stirling first cast eyes on Nora Clarke and was instantly smitten. He was standing under a shaded tree, listening with a sinking heart to his mother pleading with the uncle he hadn’t even realised existed, while she was up high on a balcony, throwing little tomatoes at thieving squirrels. Cut to the present day, when Will is an overworked doctor and has […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR13, Contemporary Romance, found family, grief, Kate Clayborn, Love at First, Malin, NetGalley

Malin's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: CBR13, Contemporary Romance, found family, grief, Kate Clayborn, Love at First, Malin, NetGalley ·
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If you found a long-lost hidden diary, how long would it take you to devour the entire thing?

Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman

January 31, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

If you found a long-lost private diary written by a woman who died under mysterious circumstances, would you read it? What if that woman was one of the founders of the school where you are currently employed? What if you are living in that woman’s former home? What if you are writing your thesis on this woman and her work? What if, less than two pages into the diary- webs of secrets start to untangle? OF COURSE you would read it. Our narrator, Meg Rosenthal […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: academia, art, art colony, audio, boarding school, Carol Goodman, early 20th Century, fairy tale, grief, Jen Taylor, Motherhood, Upstate New York

Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: academia, art, art colony, audio, boarding school, Carol Goodman, early 20th Century, fairy tale, grief, Jen Taylor, Motherhood, Upstate New York ·
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Best read with tissues handy

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

December 30, 2020 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

Everything I Never Told You isn’t the type of book I normally read, and nor was it what I expected at all – thinking I was getting some kind of murder mystery, what I got was a quietly devastating portrayal of a family hurting from all of its repressed hopes, dreams, desires and resentments. Lydia, the beloved eldest child of Marilyn and James Lee, is found dead in the lake near their home. Blond haired blue eyed Marilyn had always wanted to become a doctor, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Celeste Ng, family, Fiction, grief

TheShitWizard's CBR12 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Celeste Ng, family, Fiction, grief ·
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad…House

It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan

November 11, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

A knock at the door. A series of frantic knocks at the door. Yes, It Will Just Be Us  nearly starts with “it was a dark and stormy night”. Our narrator, Sam, is a down-and-out adjunct professor of archeology barely hanging onto her sanity. After a series of upsetting events, we find her moving back to her crumbling, ancestral mansion in on the edge of a foreboding Virginia swamp. The mansion is, for all intents and purposes, haunted. It’s haunted by the living specter of her […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: animal abuse, ARC, Domestic Abuse, dysfunctional family, ghosts, grief, Haunted House, it will just be us, Jo Kaplan, madness, NetGalley, paranormal, Slavery, Southern Gothic, suicide, Virginia

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:116 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: animal abuse, ARC, Domestic Abuse, dysfunctional family, ghosts, grief, Haunted House, it will just be us, Jo Kaplan, madness, NetGalley, paranormal, Slavery, Southern Gothic, suicide, Virginia ·
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Allie’s not dead! She’s back and she gave us this wonderful book and she’s ok (sort of)

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

October 11, 2020 by Malin 2 Comments

Back in 2013, Allie Brosh published Hyperbole and a Half named after the blog she kept (and has finally updated with a new post!). I pre-ordered the last book and bought it as a Christmas present for pretty much every single person my husband and I knew that year (now our own copy seems to have mysteriously gone missing – which distresses me). Allie’s blog (we are clearly on first-name basis, and would be great friends if we ever met) and her book meant a lot to me, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novel/Comic, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Allie Brosh, Anxiety, autobiography, cbr12, funny, Graphic Novel, grief, Malin, mental illness, non fiction, Solutions and Other Problems

Malin's CBR12 Review No:74 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novel/Comic, Non-Fiction · Tags: Allie Brosh, Anxiety, autobiography, cbr12, funny, Graphic Novel, grief, Malin, mental illness, non fiction, Solutions and Other Problems ·
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