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Sophronia and her series both Finish.

Manners & Mutiny (Finishing School, #4) by Gail Carriger

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This was a nice ending to the series, pretty on par with the quality of the rest of the books, so if you liked those, you’ll like this one, too. I’ve just been slightly underwhelmed with this series as a whole, so I was just slightly underwhelmed with this book in the same way. I got really excited about the ending of the third book, but she didn’t really take it anywhere super exciting, just medium exciting. I did like the last two books more than I liked the first two, so the series does have a clear and satisfying […]

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4/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

“The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.”

Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray

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In this third installment of Bray’s fantastic Diviners series, Libba Bray finally pulls together many moving pieces and lays down the major themes of the series with gusto. If I could sum it up in one phrase, I’d call this book “Ghosts are scary, but not as scary as evangelism” Or “Ghosts are scary, but it’s your fault.” The Diviners are a diverse group of supernaturally talented young people in 1920s NYC (who aren’t officially called “The Diviners” but simply “diviners” at this point).  In previous volumes, they have tracked down a paranormal serial killer and solved the crisis of […]

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3/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

Luke Cage meets noir meets The Diviners meets more please!

Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivelä

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Abbott is a brief, five-issue series set in 1970s Detroit about journalist Elena Abbott, lone black female reporter at the Detroit Daily. Abbott prefers to delve into the stories the paper’s board would rather not see printed. She’s recently getting heat for her piece on the death of a black teen at the hands of police, but so far she’s been protected by her loyal boss. She has a new case on the horizon and it’s a grisly one.  A mutilated police horse is found and the Detroit PD claims the crime stinks of the Black Panthers.  As Elena digs […]

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3/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Sexy swamp people.

Bayou Moon (The Edge, #2) by Ilona Andrews

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Short review, because I read this over a month ago. It actually took me forever to read it! I had this book out in ebook form from the library three times before I read it. They kept taking it away from me before I could work up the energy or desire. I finally caved and just bought a Kindle copy, and of course that’s the one that ended up sticking, since I owned it forevermore, I went ahead and read it the next day. Sigh. The quality of the book though didn’t really match how long it took me to […]

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11/7/2018 's CBR10 Review No:134 |

The one with the horror convention.

Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8) by Jim Butcher

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Most of this book is muchly good, but I do have one substantial complaint. But more on that later. As I re-read this series, I continue to enjoy it much more than I did the first time through. I’m not going to rehash why (combo of knowing all the characters now and where they end up, along with catching things I didn’t the first time through). Just assume the same things I’ve said for books four through seven also apply here. Most of this book is spent with Harry adjusting to his new role as Warden of the White Council, […]

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9/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:88 |

Polka will never die.

Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7) by Jim Butcher

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So I never actually wrote a real review of this book the first time I read it. It was the end of the year, and I just half-assed something over on Goodreads, and didn’t even post anything at all on the CBR blog (it was my first Cannonball, I believe, CBR4). I just wanted to read it and enjoy it and then be done with it. But seeing as how this is the first truly wonderful book in the series (and don’t even argue with me about this), it really does deserve a full considered review. This is very nearly a perfect […]

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8/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:61 |

Waffles and Ice Cream for Breakfast

Wild Ride by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

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Wild Ride was my least favorite Jennifer Crusie romance until I realized it is not a romance. I read this when it was first released in 2010. I picked it up again a couple of weeks ago because I couldn’t remember much about it other than it wasn’t a great romance, and one other thing I’ll discuss later in the review. Crusie and Bob Mayer co-wrote three romance-adventures/adventure-romances, Don’t Look Down, Agnes and the Hitman, and Wild Ride. They made for an interesting writing pair, but this is the weakest of their collaborations. All of the main characters are great, but […]

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7/3/2017 's CBR9 Review No:62 |

“Why is some accident of uncontrolled neurochemistry the ‘real me,’ and a carefully reasoned system of priorities somehow false?”

Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1) by Mishell Baker

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Borderline is a sharp urban fantasy book with a new take on the “fairies walk among us” trope. It stands out, in part, for its unusual protagonist (more on that later) but also achieves above-average marks for its balance of fresh world-building with a well-paced plot. Leaning too hard on one or the other can result either in a story that drags under the weight of excessive detail, or an ill-defined, unprincipled universe where anything goes with the plot because anything can be magicked to do anything. Borderline establishes ground rules and doesn’t overreach with its fantasy trappings, relying on […]

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6/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:49 |


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