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“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 |

When that ticking clock does more than keep you up at night….

The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs

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It seems appropriate that I finished my cbr10bingo for #The Book Was Better? on Halloween as it was a scary(ish) book called The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs. I think I read this as a kid about thirty years ago. This is probably why I have no real memory of it. Therefore, I was reading it for the first time. I had hoped to read it as the movie just came out. And while I am not a Jack Black fan, he might make an interesting Uncle Jonathan. However, no matter how good of an actor […]

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11/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:403 |

I was so very often confused, but that’s okay!

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

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There are a lot of threads in this book moving to create a tapestry of a story.  This is definitely a fantasy, as their world is much different than ours. There is a great Bog that takes over a good part of the land.  The Bog is dangerous, but there is a town in the middle, the Protectorate. The Protectorate is ruled by the Elders. Every year on the Day of Sacrifice, the youngest baby in the town is sacrificed to the witch, to keep the town safe for another year.  But the witch Xan is not as she seems. […]

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10/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Not exactly a sequel

Stiletto: A Novel (The Rook Files) by Daniel O'Malley

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Daniel O’Malley’s first novel, The Rook, is easily one of my favorite and satisfying books I have read, so I made sure to add Stiletto to my must-read list. I read a few early reviews, so I wasn’t surprised by the fact that Stiletto isn’t a direct sequel to The Rook. In The Rook, we meet Rook Thomas right after she lost her memory and gained her powers. We get to know Thomas as she gets to understand herself. O’Malley crafted a near perfect fantasy thriller with The Rook, and he continues the suspense with a new two new heroes in Stiletto: Felicity, a Pawn; […]

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9/25/2018 |

#CBR10Bingo: This is the end – Magic Triumphs

Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

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#CBR10Bingo: This is the end This is the tenth and final book in a long running series. As such, there may be spoilers for the contents of at least previous books, as well as mild spoilers for the plot of this one. More importantly, it is NOT the place to start. The proper place to begin is Magic Bites. The book is a bit rough, but stick with it, this series is among the best paranormal fantasy out there. I’ve spent more than eleven hours on a train from Canada today, and then more than an hour getting back from Penn Station, […]

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9/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:84 |

#CBR10 Bingo: Throwback Thursday – the Kate Daniels series (minus book 10)

Kate Daniels books 1-9, Magic Gifts, Gunmetal Magic, Magic Stars and Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

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#CBR10Bingo: Throwback Thursday Spoiler warning! This is my re-read of the first nine books in the Kate Daniels series, in addition to the two books books set in the same universe, Gunmetal Magic and Iron and Magic, as well as two of the more essential novellas to complete my revisit of the complex and fascinating world that Ilona Andrews have created. If you read through this review, I will assume you are familiar with the series already. If you haven’t read the books yet, but are looking for a good introduction, check out Den of Geek’s very cool article here. Full re-read review posted on my blog. As of […]

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9/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:78 |

“When you’re happy for yourself, it fills you. When you’re happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

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Throwback Thursday Bingo Square.   Goodreads tells me I first read Garden Spells in 2010.  (Or maybe that’s when I first signed up for Goodreads, who knows?) Either way, it was a while back.  But I’ve been in transition again (in two houses, in different rooms now in each house), so I’ve been moving a lot of my things, packing others up for storage and (painfully) whittling back my bookcases, for space reasons, and the “keeper book” criteria was as stringent as I could manage (which is to say, not exceptionally stringent.) Still, when I picked up Garden Spells in my sorting […]

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8/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

Family Matters and Magic

Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Revelations (AND) Allies by Lydia Sherrer

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This is effectively one review for two books because really, it should be one book, not two. Let it be known I find these entertaining easy reads, but there are some structural and character problems that are really starting to annoy me. 3.5 stars combined. The continuation of gradually revealing more about the world really develops in Revelations, along with what is pretty obviously the main conflict of the series: villainous wizard want to discover ‘wizarding’ gene and use this information to find and wake up Morgan LeFay (yes, that Morgan) and ensure that wizards will rule humanity. What bothers […]

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8/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |


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