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Kicking It by Faith Hunter and Kalayna Price

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When the ‘rona hit, I found it hard to concentrate on a book. If you’re in a slump, I highly recommend trying an anthology from your favorite genre. Kicking It was edited by Faith Hunter and Kalayna Price. I haven’t read any Jane Yellowrock books, but her story made me order the first book. I stumbled across the anthology more so for Price who wrote the Alex Craft books, which was my be favorite series from last year. I took a lot of breaks between […]

Double Bingo! (CBR12Bingo 2: Violet)

The Binding by Bridget Collins

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 It was hard for me to make this my Violet square since I bought this on Ale’s recommendation (and their review photo shows the purple in the cover much better than mine – VS Ramachandran’s The Telltale Brain would have made a prettier rainbow, but we’re getting down to the wire and I can read fiction faster than nonfiction in most cases, so needs must). I was almost as charmed by the book as Ale, but I have to admit it was a slower burn for […]

A sweet romance with a slow build

Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

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CBR Square- Violet Ayesha At Last is a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in a Muslim community in Toronto. Ayesha is a teacher but wants to be a poet and travel the world, and Khalid is a more conservative Muslim who wants his mother to arrange his marriage. It is a story about the experiences of immigrants, traditions competing with modern society, and a hero who learns that he can keep his identity and the things that he feels are important while also […]

Pretty young things solve supernatural murders in 1920s NYC (Complete bingo card!)

The Diviners by Libba Bray

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#CBR12 Bingo: The Roaring 20s (could easily be used for Violet as well)   17-year-old Evangeline “Evie” O’Neill can sense people’s secrets if she holds a personal object belonging to them and concentrates hard on it. She becomes decidedly unpopular in her home town when she gets drunk at a party and reveals that one of the town’s golden boys knocked up a hotel maid and paid her to have the problem “dealt with”. He accuses her of slander and threatens to sue her family. Evie […]

“What is a whole life? If you die when you’re still a child, is your life whole or half or zero?”

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

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When a boy suddenly vanishes in a slum in India, 9-year-old Jai, who likes to watch police shows on TV, decides to solve the case with the help of his friends Pari and Faiz. While they try to look for clues over the next few weeks, more children go missing which causes the already existing tension between Muslims and Hindus to increase dangerously. A corrupt and indifferent police, extreme poverty, religious and ethnic conflicts, the constant threat of the neighbourhood being demolished, child labour, and […]

Wizards, Written in the Style of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

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Six years! It’s been six years since we’ve had a full-length Dresden Files novel. The wait had not quite reached A Song of Ice and Fire extremes, but fans were still feeling a bit despondent. So cue the excitement earlier this year when it was announced that not only was the wizard-drought going to break, but it with not just one book, but two! …Well, sort of. Sorry, going to put a dampener in this. Because now that I have read Peace Talks – and […]



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