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Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

June 6, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Thirteen years ago, a scrappy pack of teen detectives (and their faithful dog) solved a lake-monster mystery in a sleepy northwestern town. The guy in the monster suit would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids! Smash-cut to thirteen years later, and our teens are far from thriving members of society. Plagued by nightmares and hallucinations, powered by alcohol and violence, the twenty-something remnants of the Blyton Hills Detective Club are coming to a powerful realization: they caught the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: Edgar Cantero, homage, lgbtq characters, Mental Health, necronomicon, pacific north west, paranormal detective, pop culture mashup, Scooby-Doo

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:55 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: Edgar Cantero, homage, lgbtq characters, Mental Health, necronomicon, pacific north west, paranormal detective, pop culture mashup, Scooby-Doo ·
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Just as good as everyone said it would be.

August 20, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

This book was slow to start for me. I found it interesting and enjoyed it while I was reading it, but I didn’t exactly need to pick it up or anything, and I kept getting distracted by cheesy romance novels I checked out from the library instead. I should have just been patient. At around 25% (the time she commits her second murder), I was hooked, and at about halfway through when new characters enter the picture, I was so into it I practically read […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, historical fiction, homage, jane eyre, Jane Steele, Lyndsay Faye, narfna, romance

narfna's CBR8 Review No:105 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, historical fiction, homage, jane eyre, Jane Steele, Lyndsay Faye, narfna, romance ·
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Yes, it’s not Ready Player One. Let’s all move on.

August 2, 2015 by narfna 6 Comments

Okay, let’s get this out of the way: If you’re looking to recreate the singular reading experience you had with Ready Player One, to recapture that same magical feeling of wonder and awesomeness, you’re going to be disappointed with this book. Just, straight up. Armada is not RPO. They have similarities, but there also a lot of differences, and those differences are going to cause a lot of people not to like this one very much. Them’s just the facts. RPO, as far as I’m concerned, […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: armada, Ernest Cline, homage, narfna, nerd lit, nostalgia, sci-fi, video games

narfna's CBR7 Review No:109 · Genres: Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: armada, Ernest Cline, homage, narfna, nerd lit, nostalgia, sci-fi, video games ·
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boogeymen

Jelinas Reviews Cannonball #1: A Worthy Homage to Horror

January 28, 2014 by Jelinas Leave a Comment

There’s fanfic, and then there’s homage. Fanfic is usually written to satisfy the writer; filled with the fan’s desires of what he’d like to see come to pass. Since the focus is the writer’s satisfaction, it often happens that no one but the writer is satisfied after reading. Then there’s homage, which is written to honor the original work. Any true fan can appreciate a good homage, and it may even succeed in converting the uninitiated. Boogeymen

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: boogeymen, brian prisco, homage, horror, jelinas, novelette

Jelinas's CBR6 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: boogeymen, brian prisco, homage, horror, jelinas, novelette ·
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