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People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows

December 16, 2016 by borisanne Leave a Comment

This book is a goddamned delight, and everyone should read it. The end. No, just kidding. But I am really glad I picked it up (on the recommendation of basically the entire CBR community, amirite?), even though lately I’ve been trying hard to balance my male protagonists and authors with the underrepresented lady brains that are at large and largely ignored (axe grinding alert!). I’m glad I picked it up because it’s incredibly sensitive, and thoughtful, and nuanced. It’s also a little bit self-conscious and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Albertalli, becky albertalli, CBR8, drama club, emailing, family, Fiction, friends, gay, high school, queer, romance, YA, Young Adult

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Albertalli, becky albertalli, CBR8, drama club, emailing, family, Fiction, friends, gay, high school, queer, romance, YA, Young Adult ·
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Not entirely my cuppa tea, but YMMV, Roundup

December 2, 2016 by NTE Leave a Comment

As told by a short synopsis and my Kindle notes while reading them. Stealing Jason Wilde by Dee Ernst – Here we have a book about four grown women who kind-of-sort-of kidnap an actor, only not really, while on vacation.  Wilde passes out in their car and they have to Weekend at Bernie’s him into their beach house, and his stupid manager tells him to stay hidden and calls the FBI, and all of these women somehow make the bad decision to play along? And […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: almost greats, dee earnst, Elizabeth Hoyt, jennifer probst, no but really, romance, tropes that are nopes

NTE's CBR8 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: almost greats, dee earnst, Elizabeth Hoyt, jennifer probst, no but really, romance, tropes that are nopes ·
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How *does* the aubergine fit inside the peach?

November 22, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

Spindle Cove/Castles Ever After crossover? Okay! (Piers Brandon is the Marquess that didn’t get said yes to, in case you don’t recognize him.) (He’s much more likable in Do You Want to Start a Scandal than he was in Say Yes to the Marquess.) (I don’t know why I keep using parentheses.) People have been asking for years for Dare to finally give the last Highwood daughter, Charlotte, her own story, so it seems fitting that she (and we) should be rewarded for her patience […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Castles Ever After, Do You Want to Start a Scandal?, narfna, romance, Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare

narfna's CBR8 Review No:145 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Castles Ever After, Do You Want to Start a Scandal?, narfna, romance, Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare ·
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The book I needed post election

November 14, 2016 by Dome'Loki 2 Comments

For my birthday in October my daughters gave me two books, “Ghost Talkers” and “Arabella of Mars”.  As I had been waiting for over a year to read “Ghost Talkers”, that was given higher reading priority.  Supposedly things happen for a reason and I’m now glad that “Arabella of Mars” came second because it was the book I was reading at the ending of this U.S. election.  AoM was the perfect amount of escapism that was needed to balance the stress of this election cycle. AoM […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: Dome'Loki, Fiction, romance, sci-fi

Dome'Loki's CBR8 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: Dome'Loki, Fiction, romance, sci-fi ·
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Cute, but not my fave.

October 31, 2016 by narfna 1 Comment

Everybody here has been losing their minds over this book since it came out, so I knew I would read it eventually because I am a sheep and do what I’m told. BaaaAAAaaaAAAAaaAaAA. ANYWAYS. This book was great. Nothing earth-shattering or revolutionary, just straight up cute romance featuring hate-to-love protagonists. My only real complaint about it is that it wasn’t long enough. I needed at LEAST fifty more pages of them being in that stage right before actually falling in love with each other. This book […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Act Like It, contemporary, Lucy Parker, narfna, romance

narfna's CBR8 Review No:140 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Act Like It, contemporary, Lucy Parker, narfna, romance ·
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This book is book crack.

October 31, 2016 by narfna 4 Comments

I fell in love with this book within, like, five minutes of starting it. I had zero problems with it, and I went basically full cartoon heart-eyes* the entire time I was reading it. So, you know, keep that in mind for the rest of this review. Critical thinking skills not getting much use here from me. *Or, because I’m watching Steven Universe for the first time right now, we might also say I went full star-eyes. I’m halfway through season one right now and already […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: contemporary, Fiction, narfna, romance, romantic comedy, Sally Cisneros, sally thorne, The Hating Game

narfna's CBR8 Review No:134 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: contemporary, Fiction, narfna, romance, romantic comedy, Sally Cisneros, sally thorne, The Hating Game ·
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