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I saw it coming but that’s not totally a bad thing

A Venom Dark and Sweet by Judy I Lin

May 19, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I was right. The main threat introduced in A Magic Steeped in Poison that is more directly addressed and defined in A Venom Dark and Sweet was indeed of the ancient evil thing wants to resurrect and take over and destroy the known world. A Venom Dark and Sweet does manage to give heroine Ning more personality though in spite of maintaining her first person voice alternating with a third person representation of Kang’s perspective on things. They’re sort on the same side but also […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, A Venom Dark and Sweet, Chinese folklore, historical fiction, Judy I. Lin, LGBTA YA, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, A Venom Dark and Sweet, Chinese folklore, historical fiction, Judy I. Lin, LGBTA YA, YA ·
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The sword fighting is more interesting than the romance but not the point

Fence: Disarmed by Sarah Rees Brennan

October 10, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 20: Star I think I mostly like the comics better; the novels for Fence, including Fence: Disarmed, get too wrapped up in the personal drama. At least Fence: Disarmed fits the star square; part of the premise of the whole series is that Nicholas, the new(est) kid at King’s Row boarding school, wants to become a star fencer to impress his supposed father Robert Coste who is a major figure in the sport. Part of the problem though is that Robert may have no […]

Filed Under: Romance, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: C.S. Pascat, cbr14bingo, Comics, fence, Fence Disarmed, fencing, high school, johanna the mad, LGBTA YA, Romance, sarah rees brennan

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:72 · Genres: Romance, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: C.S. Pascat, cbr14bingo, Comics, fence, Fence Disarmed, fencing, high school, johanna the mad, LGBTA YA, Romance, sarah rees brennan ·
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The premise is the only redeeming feature and even that’s somewhat derivative

The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen

August 14, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo 12: Free I’m going to be up front about this: if this hadn’t been a free download from the Tor.com book club, I’d have been annoyed to have spent any money on it. The story is predictable, and the plot is both mostly lacking and also incomplete. I am reminded in a way of the Goosebumps series; I never really got into that as a kid in part because of how the endings were often not entirely endings. Same problem here. The Infinite Noise […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Bright Sessions, cbr13bingo, Lauren Shippen, LGBTA YA, LGBTQ romance, novella, The Infinite Noise, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:69 · Genres: Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Bright Sessions, cbr13bingo, Lauren Shippen, LGBTA YA, LGBTQ romance, novella, The Infinite Noise, YA ·
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