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Oh how funny! Mom just ate someone’s body part.

The Night Eaters: Volume One: She Eats the Night by Marjorie M. Liu

January 9, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This weekend I devoured several titles. I was finally in the mood to read and the goodies I found were easy enough to read, even if they had a lot going on. And in fact, most of them deserve a second read (at least) as there was a lot going on and things probably were missed. And The Night Eaters: Volume One: She Eats the Night was one of the most-going-onest graphic novels I have read. This Marjorie M. Liu graphic novel is not for […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Chinese-Americans, Demonology, Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda, supernatural, Teenagers, trauma

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:27 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Chinese-Americans, Demonology, Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda, supernatural, Teenagers, trauma ·
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Hop in, we’re going for a read

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

May 18, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

After finishing Far from the Tree, I told myself, “Well, that was a ride.” But was it a good or bad one? Yes. There were things I loved, and things I hated. Sometimes I thought the characters were amazing, sometimes horrible (really horrible, and not necessarily where you might think that yourself). They were real and they were stereotypes. They are good and they are bad. In other words, human. Robin Benway created a story of three biologically siblings (boy, girl, girl). And there are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Health, Young Adult Tagged With: adoption, family, foster care, Robin Benway, siblings, Teenagers

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:233 · Genres: Fiction, Health, Young Adult · Tags: adoption, family, foster care, Robin Benway, siblings, Teenagers ·
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Digging Deep

The Night Shift by Alex Finlay

April 15, 2022 by Zirza 1 Comment

New Jersey, New Year’s Eve 1999. A skeleton crew – four high school girls and their only slightly older manager – work the graveyard shift at a Blockbuster’s. The girls gossip and skirt their duty. Their manager – kindly, wearily and ineffectively – tries to get them to do their jobs, but the girl’s aren’t having it. Hours later they are all found dead. Only the youngest of them, Ella Monroe, survives. A suspect is quickly found but he flees before anyone can catch him.  […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Alex Finlay, Blockbuster, Teenagers, The Night Shift

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Alex Finlay, Blockbuster, Teenagers, The Night Shift ·
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“If You’re Not Happy, Maybe Ask Yourself If It’s Worth It”

Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia

January 17, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

Spoilers below: I’ve reread this book a few times over the seven years since it came out (I actually think I read her other work before this was published, so I was familiar with her style beforehand). It’s the kind of book where you enjoy it and it raises more questions than it answers. The ending reveals a little of what’s been going on, but way more is left up to your imagination. In the hands of another author, this might grate or feel cheap, […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: Liz Suburbia, magical realism, Teen Angst, teen romance, Teenagers

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: Liz Suburbia, magical realism, Teen Angst, teen romance, Teenagers ·
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Beauty & Cruelty

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

May 6, 2021 by Ale 2 Comments

After the herculean doorstop that was Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings, I needed a fast, fun, and gripping read. So I turned to Holly Black, whose Folk of the Air trilogy I gobbled up in about 72 hours over Thanksgiving break. The Darkest Part of the Forest did not disappoint, and I blew through it in a day. Written a few years before Folk of the Air, it was fun to see how Black was playing around with the themes and premises that she later expanded […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: faerie lore, faeries, Holly Black, magic, monsters, Teenagers

Ale's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: faerie lore, faeries, Holly Black, magic, monsters, Teenagers ·
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You know life is cruel, life is never kind

Neighborhood Watch by Joseph A. Turkot

February 10, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

It’s the fall of 1995 in a small, sleepy town in suburban America. A young boy named Brandon disappears while walking home from school. The people of the town assume he’ll come back on his own account, but his classmates, Jake and Colin, become less sure. They set out to discover what has happened to Brandon, but as more and more boys vanish from the neighborhood they inadvertently end up putting their own lives at risk.  Though it has been written from the perspective of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime thriller, joseph a. turkot, neighborhood watch, Teenagers

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime thriller, joseph a. turkot, neighborhood watch, Teenagers ·
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