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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

February 3, 2022 by carmelpie 2 Comments

I chose this book based on popularity and on its genre. It tells the story of two agents, red and blue, fighting across time and worlds as part of an ongoing war between their two organizations. As they dip in and out of time, they begin a correspondence. Through this correspondence, we learn bits and pieces about who they are, what and how they are made, and the role they and their kind play. As their flirting develops into deeper feelings, they must each decide […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Romance, romance tropes, time travel

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Romance, romance tropes, time travel ·
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Short reads to finish off my reading year (and help me to finally complete my double Cannonball)

Night of the Scoundrel by Kelly Bowen

The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick

A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau

A Second-Chance Road Trip for Christmas by Jackie Lau

December 29, 2019 by Malin 6 Comments

Night of the Scoundrel by Kelly Bowen Rating: 4 stars In this novella which concludes Kelly Bowen’s The Devils of Dover series, we finally find out more about the mysterious King, who has been popping up in Bowen’s books for a long time. A shadowy London crime lord with connections to smuggling, art forgery, theft and all sorts of other untoward business, he is not a man to cross. He discovers that a man he believed to be dead, a man who ruined his childhood and set him […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, A Match Made for Thanksgiving, A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas, cbr11, Contemporary Romance, emmalita, Frankenstein, historical romance, Holidays With the Wongs, horror, Jackie Lau, Kelly Bowen, Literature, Malin, Marcus Sedgwick, Night of the Scoundrel, novella, Regency, retelling, revenge, romance tropes, Small town, The Devils of Dover, The Monsters We Deserve

Malin's CBR11 Review No:105 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, A Match Made for Thanksgiving, A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas, cbr11, Contemporary Romance, emmalita, Frankenstein, historical romance, Holidays With the Wongs, horror, Jackie Lau, Kelly Bowen, Literature, Malin, Marcus Sedgwick, Night of the Scoundrel, novella, Regency, retelling, revenge, romance tropes, Small town, The Devils of Dover, The Monsters We Deserve ·
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