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Fabulous magical creatures

Papa’s Magical Water-Jug Clock by Jesus Trejo

Benita and the Night Creatures by Mariana Llano

Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire by Flavia Z. Drago

March 21, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

It is picture book round up time my reader friends. These are a variety of ages but can work for almost all ages. Just know your reader (and of course, adults can enjoy everything too). Papa’s Magical Water-Jug Clock by Jesus Trejo and illustrated by Eliza Kinkz. When Little Jesus can finally spend time with his father on the job, he knows it will be fun. What he does not realize that is he is going to misunderstand his Papa’s words about how that water […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Cocoretto, Eliza Kinkz, family, Flavia Z. Drago, friendship, Jesus Trejo, Mariana Llano, monsters, Social Themes, the Fabulous Vampire, Vlad

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:186 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Cocoretto, Eliza Kinkz, family, Flavia Z. Drago, friendship, Jesus Trejo, Mariana Llano, monsters, Social Themes, the Fabulous Vampire, Vlad ·
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“My inner being is exceptionally cranky and I often don’t want her company myself.”

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

February 13, 2023 by Malin 3 Comments

CBR Passport Challenge: Books Recommended by Friends This is the second book in a trilogy. It doesn’t really make sense if you’ve not read the series from the beginning. So if you’re not caught up, go read A Deadly Education. It’s great, I’ll wait. El and Orion are now seniors in the Scholomance, and they have absolutely no way of knowing if their very dangerous mission just before graduation to fix the furnaces worked. Did they manage to clear the graduation hall of the majority […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: adventure, CBR15, CBR15Passport, friendship, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, monsters, Naomi novik, paranormal fantasy, romantic, the last graduate, the scholomance, Young Adult

Malin's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: adventure, CBR15, CBR15Passport, friendship, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, monsters, Naomi novik, paranormal fantasy, romantic, the last graduate, the scholomance, Young Adult ·
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Cosplay jerk needs to get over herself

Dust and Grim by Chuck Wendig

January 29, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ve had Dust & Grim on my TBR for a little while, and when I was in the bookstore for one thing online said they had but they didn’t, I didn’t want to leave sans book, so I picked up this. Overall, it’s a decent spooky middle grade/YA tale about newly discovered siblings and the family business, a funeral home for the supernatural; don’t say “monster”, that’s offensive. The only real problem was that I did not ever really take a liking to the main […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, chuck wendig, Dust & Grim, monsters, spooky, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, chuck wendig, Dust & Grim, monsters, spooky, YA ·
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Real villains

The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

December 19, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

As of this writing/posting of the review for The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill I am only halfway through. I published before finishing as I had some ideas I wanted to put down as I was/am not completely sure why this book has critics excited. It is terribly slow, and the real action does not start to take place until the middle of the book. And then, when things are about to finally happen, the orphan that meets the Ogress is asleep with […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: Children, family, Fantasy & Magic, friendship, Kelly Barnhill, monsters, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Ogres/Ogress, Orphans & Foster Homes, siblings, Social Themes, Values & Virtues

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:611 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: Children, family, Fantasy & Magic, friendship, Kelly Barnhill, monsters, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Ogres/Ogress, Orphans & Foster Homes, siblings, Social Themes, Values & Virtues ·
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This book took me ten months to finish (double bingo)

Monstress, vol 1: The Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda

November 9, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR14 Bingo: Monster (there are several monsters in this story, both humanoid and not) Official book description: Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900’s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steampunk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers. So total honesty here. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, Award Winning, cbr14, cbr14bingo, comic book, Graphic Novel, magic, Malin, Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda, matriarchy, Monster, monsters, Monstress, Sana Takeda, steampunk, The Awakening

Malin's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, Award Winning, cbr14, cbr14bingo, comic book, Graphic Novel, magic, Malin, Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda, matriarchy, Monster, monsters, Monstress, Sana Takeda, steampunk, The Awakening ·
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Who needs a yeti?

Yetis Are the Worst! by Alex Willan

November 7, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Gilbert the Goblin is convinced yetis are not nearly as mysterious as they seem, and sets off to find one to prove once and for all that Goblins are just as cool and mysterious as the elusive yeti. (Directly stolen, I mean borrowed, from the publisher description). And you get a funny journey when Gilbert tries to do this in Yetis Are the Worst! by Alex Willan. In the same pattern as their Unicorns Are the Worst and Dragons Are the Worst, your child will […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Alex Willan, goblins, monsters, Mythical, yetis

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:550 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Alex Willan, goblins, monsters, Mythical, yetis ·
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