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I would probably have liked this better if the protagonist was the sister

The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler

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Official book description: Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival. One June day, an old book arrives on Simon’s doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on speculation. Fragile and water damaged, the book is a log from the owner of a […]

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12/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:84 |

You will never find a Romanov conspiracy that I will not read.

The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul

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It wasn’t long after reading Gill Paul’s The Secret Wife, that I learned of her second Romanov conspiracy novel. As previously stated, I AM HERE FOR IT. I don’t care what the premise is, or how far-fetched, I will eat it right up. In this novel, Paul focuses the story on Maria (which, much like in The Secret Wife, it’s so fascinating to read a theory about someone other than Anastasia). Half of this novel focuses on Maria herself, starting just before the family massacre in 1918. It theorizes that her relationships with a couple of the guards will set […]

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12/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

Belated Bingo Review… because staying on top of reviews is hard, guys.

The Secret Wife by Gill Paul

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Yeahhhh… I was bound and determined to get that full card bingo… but plans went a bit sideways when I was REALLY good at the reading…. and REALLY bad at staying caught up with reviewing. So I’m determined to get my backlog cleared today, because I WILL end this year with a full Cannonball, dammit.   For years I’ve been an tad bit obsessed with anything related to the Romanovs. Their tragic story has captivated the world, and I can’t get enough – historical books, documentaries, conspiracy theories, I will eat it all up.  Then this year Netflix released their […]

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12/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

Sex Mystery sounds like a genre I want to read much more of.

Hither, Page (Page & Sommers, #1) by Cat Sebastian

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Well, the sex part of this certainly wasn’t as prevalent as the mystery, but it did deliver on Sebastian’s other promise, which was “Agatha Christie, but make it gay.” Small English village, check. The mysterious murder of one of their own, check. The discovery that the small village is hiding a bunch of secrets, check. An outsider coming in to unearth those secrets, check. Lonely spy falls in love with traumatized country doctor, check. This was very sweet in terms of the romance, and pretty clever in terms of the mystery (although I think I would have liked it better […]

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12/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:92 |

4.5 Stars for Audio and 3 Stars for Actual Story

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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So, I have to say that all in all, I really enjoyed “Daisy Jones & The Six.” I am so glad many of my friends suggested I listen to this via an audiobook. I can definitely understand why many readers DNFed this book though. The interview style format would be a much to try to read. Same reason I gave up trying to read “War World Z” that’s another book you have to experience by audio. The voice actors in this one killed it, and honestly that is what makes this book so compelling. Decades later you can hear the […]

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11/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:309 |

Mysterious as the dark side of the Moon

The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas

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Official book description: CHINA, 484 A.D. A Warrior in Disguise: All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed in his own duel. Then a messenger from the Emperor arrives, demanding that all families send one soldier to fight the Rouran invaders in the north. Mulan’s father cannot go. Her brother is just a child. So she ties up her hair, takes up her sword, and […]

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11/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:81 |

“She’s not a regular lady”

Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart

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Girl Waits with Gun is a charming historical fiction novel based on true events. Amy Stewart sources articles from early 20th century newspapers including the Philadelphia Sun, the Bergen County Evening-Record, and the New York Times, mingles facts with her own imagination, and gives us a sometimes harrowing, often funny suspense tale starring a top-notch heroine. The Kopp sisters are three women living alone on a farm in 1914 New Jersey after the death of their mother. In spite of their brother Francis’s pleas to come reside with him and his wife, Bessie, the Kopp women enjoy their independence and […]

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11/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:50 |

… and just like that, he was ready to build her a French bakery brick by brick with his own hands.

The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas

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The fourth book in the “Lady Sherlock” series is out! I really enjoyed the first three books in Thomas’ gender bending re-telling of Sherlock Holmes. If you haven’t read the books, by all means do! They are delightful mysteries set in the same world as the classic Sherlock Holmes but with a twist. Here, Sherlock is the fictitious brother of Charlotte Holmes created as a smokescreen that allows her to earn a living as a detective in Victorian London. Many of the characters from the previous three books come together here to assist a friend of Mrs. Watson, the Maharani […]

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11/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:50 |


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