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A prime example of how a poor narrator can almost ruin a book

Phantasma (Wicked Games #1) by Kaylie Smith

May 8, 2026 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

As you can probably tell from the title of my review, I listened to this as an audiobook. I didn’t fully dislike the book, but the narrator’s portrayal of the main character had me annoyed. Ophelia is a budding necromancer, and she’s reeling from the sudden death of her mother. She has to basically take over the family business of bringing back people’s loved ones for closure before she’s fully trained or ready. There’s a whole game aspect (some might call it the plot) with […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: demons, ghosts, hell, Kaylie Smith, wicked games

kfishgirl's CBR18 Review No:16 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: demons, ghosts, hell, Kaylie Smith, wicked games ·
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“Christ,” said Peter. “Hell is a campus.”

Katabasis: A Novel by R. F Kuang

April 11, 2026 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld Alice Law has but one goal: to become one of the greatest in the field of Magick; to make all the sacrifices (her pride, her health, her love life, her self-respect, and most of all her sanity) worthwhile. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. (And one of the worst humans; but what does a vicious personality and a tendency to drive others to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: academia, academia is hell, Dante, dark academia, hell, R.F. Kuang

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: academia, academia is hell, Dante, dark academia, hell, R.F. Kuang ·
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Heaven Goes to War with Heaven and Mummies try not to fall apart

Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw

April 3, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’d kind of been putting off reading Grave Importance because it’s the conclusion of a series I’ve enjoyed. This was a good ending to the series, and I’m sad it’s over, but at the same time there are a few things I wish had gotten a little more attention. The basic story has two lines that of course merge part way through; first there’s Greta’s in which she takes over a really fancy mummy clinic for a friend for a few months and naturally discovers […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: angels, dr greta helsing, Grave Importance, greta helsing, Heaven, hell, mummies, museum heist, Ruthven, vampires, Varney, Vivian Shaw

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: angels, dr greta helsing, Grave Importance, greta helsing, Heaven, hell, mummies, museum heist, Ruthven, vampires, Varney, Vivian Shaw ·
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First of 3 potential Halloween reads

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard

October 28, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I had to go back through old reviews to see if I’d done this one before, and it turns out that 1) I seem to have done the rest of the series but not this first novel, and 2) a novel from this series was close to my first ever Cannonballer review (third one I think). Good times. I decided to re-read this for 2 reasons: 1) I wanted to do a Halloween read that was not Cassidy Blake 2 because I’m saving that for […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: demons, halloween, hell, johannes cabal the necromancer, Jonathan L Howard, necromancer, Ray Bradbury, somthing wicked this way comes, vampires

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:76 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: demons, halloween, hell, johannes cabal the necromancer, Jonathan L Howard, necromancer, Ray Bradbury, somthing wicked this way comes, vampires ·
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Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

December 7, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion Tagged With: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion · Tags: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army ·
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“But. My hammer,” said Thor.

April 9, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: #Gaiman, asgard, cbr9, gods, hell, Loki, midgard, myth, mythology, Neil Gaiman, norse, Thor, valhalla

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: #Gaiman, asgard, cbr9, gods, hell, Loki, midgard, myth, mythology, Neil Gaiman, norse, Thor, valhalla ·
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