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Magically Delightful

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

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It took me a while to find my feet in this one, but once I did, it was a delightful romp through a fantastical Regency England. In Cho’s world, magic is in the air….or it would be if the Fairy Courts hadn’t plugged up the hole allowing their magic to trickle into England. But someone’s pissed off the Fairy Queen, and it becomes quite the kerfuffle for our titular Sorcerer Royal, Zacharias. On top of Fairy feelings, Zacharais is also fighting deep seated racism since he’s *gasp* African and *double gasp* the son of slaves with no societal connections to […]

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1/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

“We’re meant to go. We’re not meant to stay forever.”

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

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Holiday reading is my favorite, and I was fortunate to have a rip-roaring book to tear through this holiday. I was also pleased, per the title of this post, that it ended and it will not continue as a duology or trilogy. Naomi Novik developed an imaginative world populated with  interesting characters and an engaging story. I’m quite sure the characters continued living their lives after I closed the book, but I am also happy that all necessary loose ends were wrapped up so satisfactorily. Briefly, Agnieszka is a peasant girl who lives in a quiet village that is protected from an […]

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1/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Magically Disturbed

Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman

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For years I’ve had issues with short story collections. The whipping from one plot to another so quickly makes my brain feel like it’s on a very shaky roller coaster. But it’s the genre my mentor most likes to teach, so I’ve found myself reading a lot of it lately. Thanks to his patience, I have a newfound understanding of the short story, and decided to start off the year by revisiting the first short story collection I ever finished, Neil Gaiman’s “Smoke and Mirrors.” When I read this four years ago, the stories disturbed me so much I had […]

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1/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Humans out for witch blood

A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison

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A Perfect Blood is the tenth entry in Kim Harrison‘s series about a witch bounty hunter, Rachel Morgan. This time around, it’s not supernatural beings out for her blood but…humans. Rachel believes the I.S. has called her out to consult, but really they wanted to see if she was the culprit of ritual witch killings. The victims apparently are being experimented upon with illegal demon curses by a group of human terrorists who want to rid the world of all supernatural creatures. Seems a bit counterproductive to use demon magic to rid the world of witches and other such beings. […]

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12/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

A supernatural murder mystery

Iron & Velvet (Kate Kane Paranormal Investigator #1) by Alexis Hall

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Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall is a paranormal F/F romance mystery. I’m always up for anything paranormal with a broody detective, so this was right up my alley. Kate Kane is a private investigator for the supernatural underworld of London. Even though she has a fairy mother, she lives her life as a human, only calling on her untested powers for emergencies. The book opens with a werewolf’s murder outside an elite vampire club. Kate’s called onto the case by her ex-boyfriend Patrick who basically a vampire fixer. The vampires would like her to wrap up the case quickly and […]

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12/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

An excellent bridging story between a finished trilogy and a series to come

Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews

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4.5 stars Spoiler warning! This novella takes place after the events of Wildfire and this review may spoil things for any reader who has not finished the original Hidden Legacy trilogy. Proceed at your own risk. Nevada Baylor is marrying Connor Rogan, and that means a huge society wedding with countless guests, including many of Rogan’s family members from all over the world. After the bride runs off numerous wedding planners, her sisters Catalina and Arabella decide to take over the wedding planning duties. It turns out that dealing with her older sister’s increasingly erratic demands is child’s play compared to some of the other […]

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12/24/2018 's CBR10 Review No:105 |

It’s complicated; romance, family, politics, whether one is dead or not, all of it is complicated

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

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This book suffered from next book-itis.  I started reading it but got distracted by wanting to read other books when I realized that two more bingo squares would give me a second bingo (Between the Bridge and the River and Eleanor and Park).  I half-heartedly kept reading City of Brass while waiting to get to my main city library where I could pick up both books.  At the time of stopping reading, I was feeling so so about the City of Brass.  I was having trouble keeping track of the difference between djinn and daevas, their various tribes, and how ifrits with their murderous ways […]

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12/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:50 |

“I can’t be less of a hero than a spoon!”

The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell

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This was my other drunken audiobook choice from my library’s wine tasting.  It had a cool title, and then I saw David Tennant was reading, so I grabbed it!  The language is very clever, or maybe it just seems so with David Tennant reading it.  (And he has to sing at one point, and he’s using a sprite voice, and I don’t think he enjoyed that part.) A long time ago, before England was England, there was a great forest from sea to sea.  And there were two kinds of people: those with magic, and those without. The magic people […]

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11/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:43 |


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