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Who doesn’t like a sci-fi romp?

Head On by John Scalzi

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Recently on twitter, John Scalzi shared a one-star review of one of his books he found. In the review, the writer was upset that Scalzi wrote easily readable sci-fi “romps”. Like me, Scalzi had a hard time finding why writing something that could be described as a romp would be bad. Romps are usually fun, right? Anyway, all of this is to say that Scalzi’s second foray into the world he established in Lock-in is fun, slick and dare I say another romp. Head On, like the first book in this series, takes place in a world where a flu-like […]

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2/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

“I’m sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don’t know.”

Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6) by Louise Penny

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I’m officially hooked on this series. With the exception of books two and three, which I thought were dips in quality, this series just keeps getting better. Part of my enjoyment comes from this being essentially now a serialized story. The first four you could pick up out of order and still get everything out of them that Penny wanted you to. But this one almost entirely depends, narratively and emotionally, on the previous five books, but mostly the fifth. Spoilers for previous books to follow. We ended the last book with Olivier being arrested for the murder of the […]

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1/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Probably Not a Zebra

Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

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Lethal White is the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series, and it’s the one I liked best besides the first. This series has, on the whole, been a bit of a letdown for me. I really liked Cuckoo’s Calling and got excited about the possibility of a new series to enjoy, but then The Silkworm and Career of Evil were both so gross that I really didn’t enjoy them much at all. I still wanted to give this one a try because I like the main characters so well, and I’m glad I did. Lethal White was scary and […]

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11/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

A poor murder mystery in sci-fi clothing

One Way by S.J. Morden

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A murder mystery with sci-fi dressing, One Way is set in a not too far distant future in which humanity is about to colonise Mars. Getting there is going to be extremely costly though, and so the billion-dollar corporation responsible for the project has decided to cut corners. One of the ways in which costs can be kept down is by sending humans to do the initial habitat building required and, due to the dangerous nature of the work, disposable humans at that. Which is how eight convicts find themselves picked for the job. Our protagonist, Frank, is one such […]

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11/18/2018 's CBR10 Review No:75 |

Trying to review a series without spoilers

Murder in the Mystery Suite; Murder in the Paperback Parlor; Murder in the Secret Garden; Murder in the Locked Library by Ellery Adams

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Murder in the Mystery Suite   I think I’ve found my favorite of Ellery Adams’ series.  Murder in the Mystery Suite is what I was looking for in a clever murder mystery novel.  There is no magic and the romance aspect takes a backseat to the solving of the murder. It’s all more realistic than her other books, in that it theoretically could happen in an only slightly alternate universe.  The way the narrator pronounces certain words can be a bit irksome,  Jane Steward is the hotel manager of Storyton Hall, a resort for readers.  It’s a place to go […]

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7/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

There’s fiction, and then there’s unbelievable

Pies and Prejudice; Peach Pies and Alibis by Ellery Adams

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Ok, so this is my second Ellery James book.  Things started out okay. Then they got weird.  Well, I mean things were a bit implausible all the way through.  Let me give some examples: We begin with our main character, Ella Mae, going home to Georgia after witnessing her husband’s infidelity.  So far, so good. The parts that I don’t get are: she found him boinking the two (reheaded) twins from another apartment in the elevator.  Like, she presses the button and the door opens to gyrating ass. DUDE!  What if someone else had called the elevator? Like someone with […]

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7/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

Tartting up Rick Riordan and Castle

The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky

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The Immortals strikes me as a combination of Castle and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. I liked Castle until the romance ruined it. In The Immortals, there’s a relationship developing between Selene (aka Artemis) and Classics professor Theo, but it’s not quite clear until towards the end what exactly it’s turning into. Selene is an avenger of wrongs against women in modern day Manhattan as an unlicensed private investigator, and Theo is the academic rock star with a bit of a past who gets pulled into an investigation when a colleague and former lover of his is murdered in a […]

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3/10/2018 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

“I know what it’s like to tell yourself a lie so often that it becomes the truth.”

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

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Five students walk into detention, they have little in common, other than that they were all caught with phones in class, and all five claim that they were framed and that the phones weren’t theirs. But only four walk out of that detention alive. Number five is dead and the other four all have motive and opportunity. Who is guilty? What really happened? That is the story which unfolds in One of Us is Lying. However, it isn’t the only story that Karen McManus is telling. The book is told from the four perspectives of the suspects and the plot […]

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2/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:10 |


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