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Social and Political with Murder Mystery in Fantasy Historical Setting with a Hint of Romance

The King's Beast vol. 1 by Rei Toma

February 21, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

This one is also something I decided on for Valentine’s Day, but I’m a little late in getting the review done; I saw a teaser chapter posted online and I figured why not? I did get the book a few days early and put it with the rest of the small Valentine’s stash I’d set up for myself. The King’s Beast is a manga series from a publisher that tends to focus a lot on drawn out romance type stories. The King’s Beast in spite […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novel/Comic Tagged With: #fantasy, manga, murder mystery, rei toma, social issues, the king's beast vol 1

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novel/Comic · Tags: #fantasy, manga, murder mystery, rei toma, social issues, the king's beast vol 1 ·
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A Love Story Even a Non-Romance Person Can Fall For

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

February 20, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Romance is really not my genre; for one thing I’m very much ace and spent most of my growing up time wondering what was wrong with all the story people who apparently have no self-control with the lust and related emotional stuff. However, sometimes, there comes along a romance that has enough other elements, like actually interesting characters, plot, and/or setting, that I can appreciate the whole thing, romance focus or not. Winter’s Orbit is one of these kinds of stories. In some ways this […]

Filed Under: Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, adventure, Everina Maxwell, lgbtq characters, LGBTQ romance, murder mystery, politics, Romance, space, Winter's Orbit

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, adventure, Everina Maxwell, lgbtq characters, LGBTQ romance, murder mystery, politics, Romance, space, Winter's Orbit ·
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An assassin is the murder solver; he didn’t do this one

The Perfect Assassin by K. A. Doore

February 13, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

So imagine that you’re a scholarly sort whose day job is being a historian, but you’ve also just passed your final test to join a professional family for assassins; you’ve done this both to learn but also for the sense of belonging. You’re actually kind of ok with the fact that your society has banned assassination contracts. Except that suddenly people are being murdered, your family will take the fall, unless you solve the murder. You’re probably going to have to kill someone along the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, assassins, chronicles of ghadid, k a door, K. A. Doore, murder mystery, the perfect assassin

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, assassins, chronicles of ghadid, k a door, K. A. Doore, murder mystery, the perfect assassin ·
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Remind me that once I was free, once I was cool, once I was me

The Secret Place by Tana French

January 3, 2021 by Ellesfena 10 Comments

This year I decided to go back to some of the series I started but never finished and give them one more try. Series: Dublin Murder Squad. I last read this series in 2013. What I remember about the series prior to this book: I remember being disappointed that the protagonists of In the Woods and The Likeness were absent from the following books. I remember disliking the loose ends in In the Woods and thinking that the setup for The Likeness was beyond ludicrous. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: boarding school, dublin murder squad, murder mystery, Tana French

Ellesfena's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: boarding school, dublin murder squad, murder mystery, Tana French ·
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“You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes – two people. One is le bon Dieu – and the other is Hercule Poirot.”

The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6) by Agatha Christie

October 28, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This one wasn’t my favorite, though I liked it quite a bit by the end. I had a hard time at first getting a handle on the arc of the story, and Poirot doesn’t come in until about chapter ten, so there are just a bunch of POV characters you’re introduced to before you have any context for why they’re important to the story. I fully realize this is a technique employed by many books I have enjoyed in the past, but there was something […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, Detective Fiction, Hercule Poirot, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, the mystery of the blue train, whodunnit

narfna's CBR12 Review No:155 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, Detective Fiction, Hercule Poirot, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, the mystery of the blue train, whodunnit ·
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