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Forget the past when it’s too terrible to face

December 23, 2014 by teresaelectro 2 Comments

Knocking out another VF book club review with Deerskin. Instead of aliens and greek-like gods, we read a dark fairytale about a princess named Lissar whose mother was the most beautiful queen of all the kingdoms. Her beauty so captivating that all the land including the King hardly remember the princess exists. But alas the queen cannot live forever, so she captures her beauty in a striking painting before her death. It’s almost as if she curses her daughter to live behind her shadow even after death. [MILD […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #CBR6, cannonball read, Deerskin, dogs, fairy tale, fantasy, forest, incest, myth, princess, Robin McKinley, romance, royal kingdom

teresaelectro's CBR6 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #CBR6, cannonball read, Deerskin, dogs, fairy tale, fantasy, forest, incest, myth, princess, Robin McKinley, romance, royal kingdom ·
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  • ElCicco
    on “…looking back at those pages, I shivered to see our plunge into darkness, day by day, without realizing it was a spiral, and its nadir, the abyss.”
    Thank you! I hope we see a review when you’ve read it
  • ElCicco
    on CBR Diversion – Bingo – “Wheels”
    Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad is outstanding but heavy. If you want to go lighter, I would pick any Murderbot book...
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    on CBR Diversion – Bingo – “Wheels”
    If you like Leigh Bardugo, her book Hell Bent, is sort of a road trip to hell. Just read Ninth...
  • G.D. Giant
    on “…looking back at those pages, I shivered to see our plunge into darkness, day by day, without realizing it was a spiral, and its nadir, the abyss.”
    This is a lovely review. Thank you. I've got this one on my list, I'll need to move it up,...
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    on That’s The Way That The World Goes ‘Round
    I discovered Prine’s music fairly recently and fell in love with him.
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