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“You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I’d like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you to stop talking about the things that interest you.”

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

May 27, 2026 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars Sir Robert “Robin” Blyth ends up in a civil service position he is vastly unprepared for, as it turns out, he is supposed to be a liaison between the secret magical world and the more mundane regular world. Usually, the post is held by an individual from a magical family just unlucky enough not to have any magic of their own (seems like there are quite a few such “duds” in the magic-wielding families of society). Robin, on the other hand, is both […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: alternate history, Buzzwords 26, Buzzwords cover 26, cbr18, curse, edwardian, Freya Marske, historical fantasy, keyword 26, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, Nowhere Bingo 26, paranormal romance

Malin's CBR18 Review No:33 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: alternate history, Buzzwords 26, Buzzwords cover 26, cbr18, curse, edwardian, Freya Marske, historical fantasy, keyword 26, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, Nowhere Bingo 26, paranormal romance ·
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“When someone describes a man as harmless, he ends up being a villain.”

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

April 30, 2026 by Malin 1 Comment

Dark Corner selection – February 26 Defeat the Goblin – The pebble book – a book that was gifted to you Monthly Keyword 26: Sun Nowhere Book Bingo 26: A book with multiple POVs Read the Rainbow: Black This is a book with a number of different POV characters. There is Serapio, a blind young man whom we first encounter as a child, being horribly mutilated by his mother (who subsequently throws herself off a building). All this horrific violence is to make him a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Religion Tagged With: #fantasy, between earth and sky, BIPOC, cbr18, emmalita, epic, gods, indigenous, keyword 26, LGBTQIA, Malin, Nowhere Bingo 26, pre-columbian, Rebecca Roanhorse, Religion, the Dark Corner

Malin's CBR18 Review No:21 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Religion · Tags: #fantasy, between earth and sky, BIPOC, cbr18, emmalita, epic, gods, indigenous, keyword 26, LGBTQIA, Malin, Nowhere Bingo 26, pre-columbian, Rebecca Roanhorse, Religion, the Dark Corner ·
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    on Painfully Unfunny
    You got that right!
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    on Painfully Unfunny
    Sounds like this book was 167 pages too long
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    on The Joke’s On You
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