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You can’t stop the tide

Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

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Beatriz Williams is one of my summer read go-tos. For some reason, I never got around to this book last summer when it came out. My mother passed her copy to me and it has been sitting on my non-library book TBR pile ever since. I finally cracked it open and it did not disappoint. Most of Williams’ books offer a little bit of mystery and a whole lot of star crossed loving. I’m more than fine with that. Her tendency to set things in two of my favorite decades: the roaring ’20’s and the 1950’s also checks some boxes […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

A disappointing end to a promising series

The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove

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Endings are always difficult. Wrapping up a series based on someone else’s original work, doubly so (a fact all Game of Thrones fans learned the hard way this year). This book concludes Lovegrove’s trilogy of placing Holmes into a Lovecraftian universe and the results are not that great. The fist difficulty is with the source material. Doyle only returned to Holmes reluctantly, and the stories of Holmes towards the end did not have the same energy or enthusiasm as the earlier works. Yes, Lovegrove incorporates some of the elements from the later Holmes stories, such as beekeeping, but it feels […]

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6/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

So Now Get Up

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

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Oh, Wolf Hall. So many great and beautiful moments. So many frustrating, stagnating moments. So easy to appreciate. So impossible to judge. Hilary Mantel writes dialogue with a breezy yet deep style. Her characters say a lot by saying so little. If I’m being too paradoxical, it’s because this is a book comfortable with paradox: the lowborn rising to high positions in Tudor England. It’s a stirring tale of politics and a cautionary one about the price of true reform. Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell is comfortable operating in vacuums of power. He sees an opportunity and he takes it, no matter what the […]

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6/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

Meh, ok, I don’t care anymore. Mostly.

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

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This was the right ending to the story, but I started disliking Vasya in the previous story and she does not redeem herself much. She still refuses to consider how other people might be affected by her actions, but at least she spends most of her time in the folkloric realm and not the real world. Vasya’s “reveals” were a little cliche, as was what happens when she goes to free Morozko. Saw that coming two books ago. For the reveals she discovers about herself and her family’s history, on the one hand it does help set up her conclusion, […]

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5/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

Not Enough Development of Main Character and Ending Was Disappointing

The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston

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Not too much to say here except that I have been reading Paula Brackston for years now and she’s either a hit or a miss I have found. This one just doesn’t rise up there to the other books of hers that I have read and loved (The Witch’s Daughter, The Silver Witch, and The Witches of the Blue Well). She chooses to do contemporary in this one, however, with the time travel aspect it definitely appears that Brackston was more focused on the historical parts of the novel more (Catholics having to practice their faith in secret or fear […]

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5/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:118 |

12th Century Boss Lady: Part Two

The Winter Crown by Elizabeth Chadwick

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The Winter Crown – Elizabeth Chadwick Finished on March 24, took 3 days to read 5 stars on Goodreads Genre: Historical Fiction Rating 2/2 Historical Fiction Good lord Elizabeth Chadwick has a way with words! The Winter Crown is her second installment in the Aelinor (actual historical spelling of Eleanor) of Aquitaine series. I am hooked on this series. I read the first one back in January and I am deliberately taking a few months off between each installment to make them last as long as possible. When we last left Aelinor, she had married recently crowned King Henry II […]

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5/12/2019 |

Cannonballing with an Alyssa Cole book I enjoyed very much.

An Unconditional Freedom (The Loyal League, #3) by Alyssa Cole

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I liked this! Almost without reservations! It feels so good to really like a book Alyssa Cole has written. I had some troubles with the first book in this series similar to the ones I’ve had with Reluctant Royals (character chemistry, mostly), but the second two have both been my favorite things by far that she’s written. I think maybe it’s because they’re such hardcore historical fiction, and with this one especially, the focus is almost equally split between historical detail, individual character arcs/growth, and the romance plot. There’s only one sex scene, and it was pretty brief, and I […]

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5/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:52 |

I would like the next one to be released ASAP, please?

The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas

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Spoiler warning! This is book 3 in an ongoing series. For those who prefer to go into a series completely unspoiled, this review will probably reveal details about the earlier books in the series. The story will also make a lot more sense if you start at the beginning, with A Study in Scarlet Women.  From Goodreads: Under the cover of “Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective,” Charlotte Holmes puts her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. Aided by the capable Mrs. Watson, Charlotte draws those in need to her and makes it her business to know what other people don’t. Moriarty’s shadow […]

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5/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |


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