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#CBR10Bingo: This is the end – Magic Triumphs

Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

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#CBR10Bingo: This is the end This is the tenth and final book in a long running series. As such, there may be spoilers for the contents of at least previous books, as well as mild spoilers for the plot of this one. More importantly, it is NOT the place to start. The proper place to begin is Magic Bites. The book is a bit rough, but stick with it, this series is among the best paranormal fantasy out there. I’ve spent more than eleven hours on a train from Canada today, and then more than an hour getting back from Penn Station, […]

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9/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:84 |

A Book Series from Hunger

The Hunger by Whitley Strieber

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Whitley Strieber wrote The Hunger in 1981. It was his second novel and featured Miriam Blaylock, a glamorous female vampire, her current companion John. A third side to the triangle is a brilliant young doctor, Sarah Roberts, whose research may provide an answer to Miriam’s immortality and what it might mean to the human race. The book was memorably made into a sexy, campy feature film by Tony Scott in 1983 with Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon as the trio. What makes The Hunger different from other vampire novels is how Strieber presents a scientific approach to vampirism […]

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9/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

#CBR10 Bingo: Throwback Thursday – the Kate Daniels series (minus book 10)

Kate Daniels books 1-9, Magic Gifts, Gunmetal Magic, Magic Stars and Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

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#CBR10Bingo: Throwback Thursday Spoiler warning! This is my re-read of the first nine books in the Kate Daniels series, in addition to the two books books set in the same universe, Gunmetal Magic and Iron and Magic, as well as two of the more essential novellas to complete my revisit of the complex and fascinating world that Ilona Andrews have created. If you read through this review, I will assume you are familiar with the series already. If you haven’t read the books yet, but are looking for a good introduction, check out Den of Geek’s very cool article here. Full re-read review posted on my blog. As of […]

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9/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:78 |

It’s a bloody thing, being a vampire

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

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Coldtown was dangerous, Tana knew. A glamorous cage, a prison for the damned and anyone who wanted to party with them. So imagine you wake up from a party to find you are seemingly the only one alive in the house – all your friends are dead, drained of blood by vampires.  This is how this book begins – with Tana freaking out over the discovery, finally finding her ex-boyfriend Aiden still alive but infected, along with a mysterious stranger.  They manage to escape, just barely, and Tana is horrified to discover she has been bitten as well.  In the […]

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7/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

An April Fool’s Joke come true

Iron and Magic by Ilona Andrews

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4.5 stars While this is technically the first book in a new series, which can be read on its own, this book fits into the larger framework of the Kate Daniels universe (where this book is book 9.5 out of 10). So there’s quite a bit of back story you’re missing out on if you’ve not read the other books first. While the first book is rough, the series as a whole is my favourite paranormal/urban fantasy series, probably ever, so if you like the genre and haven’t checked them out yet, do yourself a favour and get caught up before you […]

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7/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |

Finally reading a book I was given for book exchange!

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

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So, as a running theme, this was not what I thought it was going to be.  I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t quite this.   There are three kinds of people in this world.  (Hey, that’s kind of familiar…) We have normal people, full vampires, and Colds, or people who have been bitten by a vampire but have not yet turned.  In order to become a vampire, one must be infected with the vampirism by a bite and then drink human blood. If a Cold does not drink human blood for a period of time (88 […]

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7/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

Way more involved than I originally anticipated, but still good!

The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

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I’m not entirely sure where to start this review.  I guess I’ll start at the beginning, and how I got into reading this book.  I’m one of those people who sees that a new movie / TV show is based on a book and wants to immediately read the book.  It’s happened so far with: A Handmaid’s Tale, A Wrinkle in Time, The Darkest Minds, and this book.  I’m sure there were others too!  I always want to read the source material before I see how it’s translated onto the screen.  I watched the first season of The Handmaid’s Tale, […]

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6/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

Don’t ignore the preface of this entertaining monster mash-up

The Fangs of Freelance by Drew Hayes

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The Fangs of Freelance continues with the entertaining story of Fred the Vampire Accountant and his friends who include alchemists, zombies, mages, therians, a dragon, a sentient house, and some unknowns. This stuff began and continues to be a fun riff on monster-type fantasy fiction. It also plays with the supernatural crime-fighting organization, which gets more attention in this book as we actually get to see Fred go through his interview and skills test to become a contract-based accountant for the Agency where Krystal (demon-contracted girlfriend) and Arch (who knows what for sure) both work. There’s also an emphasis in […]

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6/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |


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