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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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What a fall from greatness…

Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

January 6, 2022 by Claudia Leave a Comment

My disappointment in this sequel is palpable. The first book Raybearer (which I reviewed on my goodreads here if you are interested!)  was an absolutely wonderful, bright, and fun ride of a novel so imagine how absolutely disappointing it was to see its sequel seemingly fail to grasp what made the first one great. In this sequel, we follow Tarasai as she navigates her new position in the empire with new challenges and a totally new cast of characters. The plot is not uninteresting but […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Jordan Ifueko, sequel

Claudia's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Jordan Ifueko, sequel ·
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There’s A Reason Tales As Old As Time Endure

A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

February 6, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Mild spoilers for this book, some more major spoilers for the first book in the series–highlight to see the latter. It’s funny that Goodreads calls three stars “I liked it” and two stars “It was ok,” because in my mind a three star book is “It was ok.” This book is the definition of “it was ok.” Retellings of Beauty and the Beast are numerous (Robin McKinley’s works were the ones I noted in my review of the first book in this series, A Curse So […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Brigid Kemmerer, mild spoilers, sequel

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Brigid Kemmerer, mild spoilers, sequel ·
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“I think ‘bone frenzy’ might be a term open to coarse misinterpretation, personally.”

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

September 28, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

I started screaming within the first 60 pages. This was good screaming, mind you. Surprise-party-on-a-rollercoaster-with-Elvis-in-space screaming. Everything that I had learned and loved from Gideon the Ninth exploded in my face, leaving a cloud of gore and pure insanity- and you know what? I was into it. Big time. If you have yet to read Gideon (WHY?!) then DO NOT READ THIS WRITE UP. Do not read anything about Harrow, do not read Gideon‘s book jacket, and do not waste any more time! Go go go! Our Lady Harrowhawk is, well, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: body horror, bones, ghosts, gideon the ninth, moira quirk, necromancy, post-post apocalypse, science fantasy, sequel, Snark, tamsyn muir, The Future is Queer, The Locked Tomb Trilogy

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:105 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: body horror, bones, ghosts, gideon the ninth, moira quirk, necromancy, post-post apocalypse, science fantasy, sequel, Snark, tamsyn muir, The Future is Queer, The Locked Tomb Trilogy ·
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“Still, I wanted to believe; indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?”

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

June 27, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

I worked three jobs in the summer of 2005. I frequently worked more than one during any given day. Days off did not exist- except, miraculously, for the 4th of July. The history of the 4th holds no meaning here, just that I finally had a day to myself. I spent my one day off in bed, reading The Handmaid’s Tale from cover to cover. I did not leave the room. I turned down, much to the chagrin of the person whose bed it was, all opportunities […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: . hope, Award Winner, Booker prize, Canadian Lit, dystopia, espionage, faith, Gilead, Margaret Atwood, religious extremism, sequel, sisterhood, The Handmaid's Tale, tyranny

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:66 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: . hope, Award Winner, Booker prize, Canadian Lit, dystopia, espionage, faith, Gilead, Margaret Atwood, religious extremism, sequel, sisterhood, The Handmaid's Tale, tyranny ·
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Olive, Again (Again)

May 12, 2020 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

A perusal of my library’s digital audiobook library lead me to this book as it was in the “available now/hot commodity” bucket. This book is a sequel to Olive Kitteridge and I thought I remembered liking it, so I dove in. After scanning my review of the original book I learned that I really moreso thought it just okay, and I’d say my opinion of Strout is consistent. In fact, she is so consistent that my review of this book could literally be word for […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: elizabeth strout, olive again, sequel

Genres: Fiction · Tags: elizabeth strout, olive again, sequel ·
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