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A Dinétah monster killer

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

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I was familiar with Rebecca Roanhorse from Twitter and her articles on Tor.com, so definitely excited for Trail of Lightning‘s release last year. I guess I wasn’t the only one because it was sold out at The Ripped Bodice when I went to buy it! Always a good sign and her novel did not disappoint. Trail of Lightning is the first entry in the series: The Sixth World. After a climate apocalypse that drowns most of the world, several nasty things that go bump in the night surfaced. The gods have also begun to walk among the land more freely. In […]

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6/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Post-apocalypse with angels.

Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1) by Susan Ee

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I read this way back in 2012, and at the time I was pretty enthusiastic about it. I’ve read a lot more YA since then, and a lot more self-published books, so the shine has worn off a little. Also, I now think I understand why, even though I bought book two on release date, I have never gotten around to reading it, and that is because the world Susan Ee has created is FLIPPING TERRIFYING. A very large part of me doesn’t want to know how it ends, because that part feels it couldn’t possibly end other than badly. […]

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4/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

Bird Box – The Post-Apocalyptic Book that Dreams (Nightmares) Are Made of

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

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I discovered this book all on my own, a little unknown unassuming book at the library. (Jk. This book is everywhere). Unless you’ve been gone in some remote location you have heard of this book, or at least, heard of the Netflix movie of the same name, starring America’s favorite FBI beauty contestant, the delightful Sandra Bullock. Sandra is having a pretty bad time though, in his post-apocalyptic dystopian nightmare, where the sight of something, some unknown creature, drives people almost instantly mad and violent to the point of murder and suicide. The novel starts at the beginning, with ur […]

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3/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

When one book gives you a lot of slow kicks

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I finished Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel for the So Popular! for the cbr10bingo. Now, the book is not bad. Not by a long shot. I just found it slow. Therefore, I thought I was going to have to review only half of the book. There is a lot of buildup leading one to think course there is going to be a big explosive ending! Wrong. It somewhat fizzled at the end. However, it kept to the tone of the book. The whole book was just watching these people live and grow and die. I felt as if […]

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10/22/2018 's CBR10 Review No:393 |

So This Actually Worked …

Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

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After reading Malin’s review with Alexis’s comments of this novel, I was intrigued to see how a romance would pull off turning one of the four horsemen, a man responsible for countless deaths through plague, into a romantic lead.  And much like they said, it mostly worked. I have rooted for plenty of vampires, shape shifters and other fantastical heroes with a dark past that would be inexcusable in reality but still, someone that can take out hundreds of thousands of lives at once? Definitely a whole different level! I mean this character has to be irredeemable, right? Sara is […]

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7/23/2018 's CBR10 Review No:128 |

Skip if you’re more of a SF/Adventure fan, but try if you liked Station Eleven.

Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

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3.5 stars Good Morning, Midnight is a perfectly nice book that I just didn’t vibe with. I appreciated what it was trying to do, and I’d say it even succeeded at it, but my taste and expectations are a little bit more “genre” than this ended up being. Goodreads summary: “Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the sky for evidence of how the universe began. At his latest posting, in a research center in the Arctic, news of a catastrophic event arrives. The scientists are forced to […]

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5/23/2018 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

A firewoman, a horse named Trixie Skillz and the literal embodiment of Pestilence ride across post-apocalyptic North America

Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

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The four horsemen of the Apocalypse came to Earth and in their wake, there was destruction. Engines stopped working, planes fell from the sky, technology sputtered and the internet failed. There was  chaos, and then people learned to adapt. Five years later, only one horseman is active – Pestilence the Conqueror, who rides the length and breadth of the American continent, with whole cities dying where he’s appeared. In a small settlement in Canada, Sara Burns is a volunteer firefighter who literally drew the short straw when she and her remaining colleagues decided who was to sacrifice themselves to kill […]

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5/15/2018 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

The End of Everything and How We Got There

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014) – I fear this review will make this book seem much more convoluted than it really is, but I’m going to try and give it the credit it’s due.  The premise is a simple one: there’s been a worldwide pandemic where most of humanity is dead and the few survivors in the twenty years that follow fight brigands, cultists, and a world slowly devolving into barbarism.  Technology is gone, borders no longer exist, medicine is a memory.  But people of hope still exist. In this bleak world, the Symphony travels from one […]

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5/19/2017 's CBR9 Review No:23 |


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