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Gossip, Judgement and Destruction – Read this Book

Good People by Patmeena Sarit

April 22, 2026 by itsjustme Leave a Comment

Are we not all outsiders to another person’s life?   Mesmerizing Debut Novel  The novel’s unique structure lacks traditional chapters, paragraphs or narrator. Instead there are 1-2 page personal accounts, giving a 360 degree view of the leadup and the aftermath of one family’s tragedy. I had read about one-third of the book before even learning how somebody died but yet still did not know who had died. There are dozens of unreliable narrators with differing degrees of closeness. Sympathetic words mask superiority, scorn, prejudice […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: #innovative, #mystery, adolescence, drama, family, jealousy, Patmeena Sarit, rebellion, social commentary

itsjustme's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: #innovative, #mystery, adolescence, drama, family, jealousy, Patmeena Sarit, rebellion, social commentary ·
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The Path to Eo’s Dream

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Golden Son by Pierce Brown

Morning Star by Pierce Brown

July 9, 2025 by Jen K 4 Comments

Bingo Squares: School (Red Rising is set at the Institution, a school of sorts) Black (Golden Son but all of them have mostly black covers) Citizen (Morning Star but all of them deal with the idea of class and status and citizens’ rights/place in society) I’m not generally a big re-reader though I have been doing so more over the years than I used to when I was trying to read all the books. Yet, somehow this is now my third time reading the original Red […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Citizen, Pierce Brown, rebellion, Red Rising

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:70 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Citizen, Pierce Brown, rebellion, Red Rising ·
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One day your country is yours, and the next it isn’t.

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

March 31, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.” ― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark The odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: coming of age novel, Communism, Eastern Europe, gay romance, historical fiction, oppression, Poland, queer romance, rebellion, the 1980s, Tomasz Jedrowski

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: coming of age novel, Communism, Eastern Europe, gay romance, historical fiction, oppression, Poland, queer romance, rebellion, the 1980s, Tomasz Jedrowski ·
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… In for a Pound

In for a Penny by Rose Lerner

April 20, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

When Nev’s father dies unexpectedly, he leaves the family mired in debt, so he decides to make a convenient marriage to Penny, the fabulously wealthy but low-born daughter of a brewer. This is the second book I’ve read by Lerner (the first being the fabulous A Lily Among Thorns), but it has many of the same hallmarks – an unconventional, rather unsentimental romance, a strong grounding in history, and plenty of intrigue and action. I enjoyed the plot about the tenant rebellion, even if I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: aristrocracy, historical, rebellion, Regency, Romance, Rose Lerner

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: aristrocracy, historical, rebellion, Regency, Romance, Rose Lerner ·
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Find your way to this book come April 2022

Mapmakers and the Lost Magic (A Graphic Novel) by Cameron Chittock

November 26, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Mapmakers and the Lost Magic (A Graphic Novel) is an odd little story. At first it seemed like Cameron Chittock was creating it to be straightforward: Alidade, a young girl of the village, wants to leave. You assume that she will learn “there is no place like home” but it quickly takes a turn for the slightly darker. There are the guards that stop anyone from leaving the village, they curb individuality, and are controlled by a woman who (due to illustrations placing her in […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: Action & Adventure, Amanda Castillo, Cameron Chittock, community, family, friendship, maps, rebellion

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:402 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: Action & Adventure, Amanda Castillo, Cameron Chittock, community, family, friendship, maps, rebellion ·
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Besides, beautiful wasn’t a word you used to describe other people.

Light Years by Kass Morgan

May 7, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So I guess Ender’s Game is just a genre now? Or more like a conceit we all can agree it’s ok if we borrow liberally from. I have decided two things: one, it is because it’s been 35 years now. And two, Ender’s Game is quite novel in a lot of ways but also borrows heavily from other sources as well. So this book, from the writer of The 100, is kind of like Ender’s Game but more like Ender’s Game meets….the narrative style of, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: kass morgan, light years, rebellion

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:242 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: kass morgan, light years, rebellion ·
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