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Maybe Scrooge shouldn’t have offered that Smoking Bishop. Bob Cratchitt might have been better off.

Cratchitt: "A Christmas Carol" Continues by R.M. Bouknight

December 27, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Thirteen years ago, the Spirits of Christmas visited Ebeneezer Scrooge to turn his life around. Now, it’s Bob Cratchitt’s turn. This was certainly an interesting continuation of A Christmas Carol; I don’t think anyone at the end of the first book would expect Bob Cratchitt of forgetting Christmas, but here he certainly has. No one in the Cratchitts are really happy, in fact, and it all comes back to Bob and his social climbing which this author compares to Scrooge, a man who became so […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: A Christmas Carol, R.M. Bouknight, sequel

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:160 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: A Christmas Carol, R.M. Bouknight, sequel ·
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“But perhaps that’s the point: the trials and tribulations of life weigh heavily upon us, but we find people to help lighten the load.”

Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2) by TJ Klune

December 30, 2024 by cheerbrarian 6 Comments

THIS IS IT. I’M DOING IT. MY 52ND BOOK REVIEW OF 2024 BABYYYYYYYYY. And what a delightful tome to end it on!  I have been eager to read the 2nd in this series since it came out, but of course the holds list at the library is five-ever deep. And then, I walk in two weeks ago and TAH DAH it’s on the hot picks shelf, where they put out 1 or 2 copies of new books that you can check out, for one less […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: antichrist, Lbgtq, magic, magical realism, orphans, queer, sequel, somewhere beyond the sea, superpowers, TJ Klune

cheerbrarian's CBR16 Review No:50 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: antichrist, Lbgtq, magic, magical realism, orphans, queer, sequel, somewhere beyond the sea, superpowers, TJ Klune ·
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“When I’m sad, I read. I can go on reading for hours. Reading quiets the turmoil I feel inside and brings me peace. Because when I’m immersed in the world of a book, no one can get hurt.”

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2) by Satoshi Yagisawa

December 30, 2024 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

Here I sit, on the precipice of completing my reading goal of 52 books, read and reviewed. And just like last year, I needed a teeny tiny book I could tear through to get the job done. And that’s okay, dangit! Last year ended with the first book in this slim series, so it’s appropriate that I visit the Jimbocho district of Japan once again. When we begin, Takako and those in her life are doing much better than they were in the first volume. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Books, bookshop, days at the morisaki bookshop, jimbocho, novella, Satoshi Yagisawa, sequel, short read

cheerbrarian's CBR16 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Books, bookshop, days at the morisaki bookshop, jimbocho, novella, Satoshi Yagisawa, sequel, short read ·
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A young woman's face partially obscured by a torn paper.

Girl, Forgotten

Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter

July 12, 2023 by donttrustthe_bea Leave a Comment

For some time now, I have been recommended Karin Slaughter as an author whose work I would thoroughly enjoy. Known for her slow burn thrillers, one of her most recent works, Pieces of Her, was adapted into a limited Netflix series. I didn’t know this when I picked up Girl, Forgotten, and thankfully it wasn’t necessary to have read the previous book as this book is only tangentially related to Pieces. The novel follows Andrea Oliver, a newly graduated US Marshal and daughter of Laura […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #detectivefiction, crime thriller, Karin Slaughter, mystery, sequel, strong female lead

donttrustthe_bea's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #detectivefiction, crime thriller, Karin Slaughter, mystery, sequel, strong female lead ·
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The epitome of ‘meh’

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

March 12, 2023 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Hell Bent picks up not too long after the events of Ninth House: Darlington is gone, eaten up by a hell beast and likely sent down to hell. Alex Stern is determined to get Darlington, her friend and mentor back from hell or wherever he might be. And she will use the full might and magic of Lethe and the rest of the magical societies at Yale if she has to. The challenge is that there isn’t much information about descending to hell in any […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: alex stern, Leigh Bardugo, sequel

Mobius_Walker's CBR15 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: alex stern, Leigh Bardugo, sequel ·
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Cover of The Women of Troy

What’s Hecuba to him? or to her?

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker

January 23, 2022 by Dinah Lord 4 Comments

I devoured Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls just after Christmas, and was pleased to find that the sequel, The Women of Troy, was also available. And so what better way to start my Cannonball read this year (my first ever), than by a review of this fantastic book? You don’t need to have read Silence of the Girls (though you should, because it’s excellent) because Barker reiterates the important stuff which went down in that book which has its impact on this one, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #iliad, feminist retelling, Pat Barker, sequel

Dinah Lord's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #iliad, feminist retelling, Pat Barker, sequel ·
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