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I understand less than half the words in that sentence, but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

January 27, 2026 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“Are you going to be sick?” I raise my head. The duke is gone, but Helena is on the window seat, twisting her necklace around her fingers. I don’t answer, because I don’t believe a prisoner owes his captors any sort of report on his health. That, and if I’m going to be sick, I’d prefer to do it all over her, and I’d prefer it to be a stealth attack. ― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue On paper, Henry “Monty” […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: 1700s, chronic illness, english gentry, gay romance, Lords and Ladies, mackenzi lee, piracy, pirates, queer romance, Racism, road trip romance

carmelpie's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: 1700s, chronic illness, english gentry, gay romance, Lords and Ladies, mackenzi lee, piracy, pirates, queer romance, Racism, road trip romance ·
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: Wow. Wowwowwow.

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

January 26, 2026 by beereadsbooks 9 Comments

For quite a few years now, I have been avoiding reading things that cover truly difficult material. The world is hard and weird, and I have preferred to read “lighter” stories as a way to escape, to feel the joys with out the lows. This self-preservationist approach to choosing reading material has led me further down the road of comfy, cozy reads which are lovely, but there are never real stakes. I think I have begun to notice that choosing books which do not have […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, pirates, Shannon Chakraborty

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, pirates, Shannon Chakraborty ·
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And There’s Pirates Too!

Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome

December 25, 2025 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

So I decided that it was time to get back to my comfort zone of Swallows and Amazons, the 1930s series of adolescents messing around in boats and parents blithely telling them to have a good time but be sure to be back in time for the school term.  English, of course, if you couldn’t have guessed. But this, the third in the series, was something quite different, although the characters are mostly the same.  Peter Duck appears in the second story, but as am […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 1930s British Children's Lit, Adlescnts on their own more or less, And a real life Peter Duck this time, arthur ransome, earthquakes, Messing around in boats, pirates, Sure don't write them like this anymore :D, Typhoons!

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:65 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1930s British Children's Lit, Adlescnts on their own more or less, And a real life Peter Duck this time, arthur ransome, earthquakes, Messing around in boats, pirates, Sure don't write them like this anymore :D, Typhoons! ·
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“There’s beauty in the menial. Life is nothing but a series of quiet tasks with people we love. Isn’t it?”

Tea You At the Altar (Tomes & Tea Book Three) by Rebecca Thorne

July 31, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Somewhere in the world, there is someone who will bake you cookies and buy you swords and fight your dragons. Never give up. This continues to be an enjoyable series; I’m sorry it has only one more book to go. It starts out with Kianthe and Reyna deciding to multitask; if they’re getting married, why not add overthrowing Queen Tiliane, Reyna’s former boss, into the mix? Sure, their baby dragons are hatched and causing chaos in Tawney, Kianthe’s uptight parents who she hasn’t spoken to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: dragons, Lesbians, overthrowing the monarchy, pirates, Rebecca Thorne, tea

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:98 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: dragons, Lesbians, overthrowing the monarchy, pirates, Rebecca Thorne, tea ·
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Grossly Misdirected Rage

Beloved Enemy by Amanda York

May 23, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Lanna, an English gentlewoman, falls in love with one young American but finds herself coerced into marriage with his dark-tempered friend, who seems intent on punishing her for reasons she does not understand. Look at that cover. Take a moment to appreciate that cover. I really miss old bodice-ripper style romance covers. Anyway, young, sheltered Lanna falls squarely in the trap of a dastardly devil with mommy issues who’s trying to get revenge on her father through her, except it turns out that Lanna is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: 1800s, Amanda York, bodice ripper, historical, historical romance, pirates, Romance, war

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: 1800s, Amanda York, bodice ripper, historical, historical romance, pirates, Romance, war ·
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Princesses, pirates and sisters

Story Spinners: A Sisterly Tale of Danger, a Princess, and Her Crew of Lady Pirates by Cassandra Federman

April 25, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I started a review once that said that I like sibling books and sister books in particular. Story Spinners: A Sisterly Tale of Danger, a Princess, and Her Crew of Lady Pirates written and illustrated by Cassandra Federman is one of those books. Currently available, this is a cute story about modern day sisters, with one having some old school ideas that get messy when the sisters unite to tell their “other sister” a bedtime story. Of course, there is more than that. The oldest […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: adventure, Cassandra Federman, family, imagination, pirates, Play, siblings, Sisters, Social Themes, stories

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:207 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: adventure, Cassandra Federman, family, imagination, pirates, Play, siblings, Sisters, Social Themes, stories ·
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