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To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

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This is a novel that I will be thinking about for a very long time. It’s so far out of my sphere of relatability that it is almost impossible for me to form a coherent thought about it. Not easy to read, and equally difficult to review. Weaving back and forth through time, Vuong’s novelized autobiography is about growing up as a Vietnamese immigrant in Hartford Connecticut in the 1990’s. Written as a letter to his mother who cannot read, the young man known as “Little Dog” looks back through his life and through the lives of his grandmother and […]

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11/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:51 |

It was a fun trip!

Stranger Than Fanfiction by Chris Colfer

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Not gonna lie, I picked this up for the title first.  I’m an unashamed reader of fanfiction, so when I saw the clever title, I wanted to know more.  Then I read the back, and immediately knew this was for me!  (Fanfiction doesn’t actually play a huge role in this, though!) This is kind of in the same realm as Geekarella.  There’s a show that’s kind of geeky but has a strong cult following, and they both have conventions!  There are stars that love working on the show but not the fame as much, and there are older teens who […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:68 |

Came for the cover art; stayed for the story

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

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I’ve confessed before that I have a habit of buying books based on their covers. I totally bought this book based on the cover. I read the summary and I was like “hm.. it’s probably YA” and I don’t tend to buy YA these days, but then I said “I don’t care- that cover art!” So, it is YA, and like the cover, it’s very, very good YA. I’d say it wears it’s inspiration from Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation trilogy proudly, and does a lot of the things his books did successfully but with it’s own spin. This deserves to be […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

Toby Daye and the selkies

The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire

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Spoiler warning! This is book 13 in a series, and really not the place to start. The first book is Rosemary and Rue, that’s where you want to begin, if you’re interested. Official book description: Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong. When the Luidaeg—October “Toby” Daye’s oldest and most dangerous ally—tells her the time has come for […]

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10/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:71 |

Just Desserts for the Terrible Nephew

Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan

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This novella is part of Milan’s Worth Saga but it’s been long enough since I read any of the other novels or novellas in the series that I honestly couldn’t remember these characters from the other books. All I knew going in was that it followed two older/elderly women, and I had made an assumption about who one of the characters might be based on After the Wedding, but I was incorrect. Miss Violet Beauchamps has devoted her life to managing a rooming house for the Toggert family, and the owner has fired her, only a few months from when […]

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9/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:63 |

Holmes is an Avocado

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis HIll

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Bingo 19 (Cannonballer Says) On 8/7/19, Cannonballer Leedock posted a review for The Affair of the Mysterious Letter. It sounded interesting and got a 5-star review, so I tracked it down. It is most definitely a Sherlock Holmes inspired book, but also very much its own thing. Everything is told by an older John, looking back on his past. The basic gist of the beginning of the mystery is similar to Holmes, with a medical type (alchemist) who has had to leave the Army (Company of Strangers battling the “existential peril presented by the forces of the Empress of Nothing”) […]

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8/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:68 |

More teens taking on social justice, Australian edition!

Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin Gough

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CBR11Bingo – Far and Away! This book is set in Australia, which according to a random internet website, is about halfway around the world from me. Will Everhart loathes her life at her new stuffy school Rosemead girls’ academy.  She’s always fought loudly on the side of injustice, leaving her a little lonely and unliked at her public school, but that’s only exacerbated here.  Even though the principal has got an eye on her, and even though her grades are failing, she still can’t keep her mouth shut when the swim coach makes yet another rude and sexist comment to […]

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8/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |

Hurricanes Can Be Inside, Just as Much as Outside

Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby

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I always have a little trepidation reviewing a book written by someone I know in a professional capacity, so as much as I’ve been excited to read Hurricane Season since finding out it was being published last year, I was also really worried about giving it an honest review. But not only can I say that I enjoyed it, but it was so good it made me cry the good tears and I want to ship a copy to literally every person I know.  I’m not usually one to read YA or middle-grade, but this was a special story. Fig […]

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8/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |


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