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I'm a mom of two and a voracious reader. I love happily-ever-afters and space ships. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: llamareadsbooks's Quick Questions interview.)

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Crossed Spaces

What do Australian spec fic writers do during a pandemic? Make an anthology, of course!

Crossed Spaces by Lynne Stringer, R.A. Stephens

April 15, 2021 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

I’m always up for an anthology, especially a science fiction one. This is a collection of sixteen short stories by Australian authors. While there were some I didn’t care for, on the whole this was a very enjoyable collection with a few stand-out favorites. Just a note that the only place you seem to be able to buy this is from the publisher’s website. “Traitor” – Geraldine Borella – ★★★. An exploratory mission to determine the habitability of a planet leads one scientist to contemplate […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Anthology, Lynne Stringer, Lynne Stringer, R.A. Stephens, R.A. Stephens

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:27 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Anthology, Lynne Stringer, Lynne Stringer, R.A. Stephens, R.A. Stephens ·
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Waking Up Married

“Oops, we got married in Vegas” – a thoughtfully explored friends-to-lovers romance

Waking Up Married by Reese Ryan

April 14, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 2 Comments

Reese Ryan is slowly becoming one of my new favorite authors. I love her characters, their banter, and their amazing chemistry. And this best-friends-to-lovers and fake-marriage book is no different! While I’ve previously read the second book in this series, I haven’t read most of the others, and found it relatively easy to read this as a standalone. “How did you two meet?” Brigitta asked, smiling at them the way people often smiled at newlyweds. Zora felt guilty for evoking such genuine emotions when their […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: friends to lovers, Reese Ryan, Romance

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:26 · Genres: Romance · Tags: friends to lovers, Reese Ryan, Romance ·
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Symbiosis

“Mouths always open, minds never so”

Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden

April 13, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 2 Comments

Hello, another gorgeous cover! This is the second in the Escaping Exodus series and absolutely cannot be read without reading the first. Trust me, the book is confusing enough without it! The book picks up three years later with Doka and the rest of his people having made great strides in approaching a less harmful – a less parasitical – living situation with their Zenzee. It also means that a lot of sacrifices have had to be made, including leaving a chunk of the population […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Nicky Drayden

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:25 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Nicky Drayden ·
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Escaping Exodus

Whales… in… space!

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

April 12, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 2 Comments

First, this cover is gorgeous. Second, this book was recommended to me as basically a lesbian environmentalist story set on a space octopus, which, I mean, who can resist checking something like that out? And I would agree, it’s a sort of environmental manifesto, along with a complicated f/f relationship and lots of alien ship body fluids. Seske is the epitome of the spoiled princess, heir to the Matris, ruler of the people on this particular beast. She can’t even comprehend how good she has […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Nicky Drayden

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:24 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Nicky Drayden ·
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Love at First

A gorgeous exploration of family, grief and love

Love at First by Kate Clayborn

April 11, 2021 by llamareadsbooks 3 Comments

Kate Clayborn’s spectacular Love Lettering was the first book I read in 2020. Now, while the rest of the year didn’t work out so well, I can’t deny that it was an amazing reading year for me, and now Love at First looks like it’s continuing that tradition. I am an absolute sucker for a found family story, and this is an expert exploration of that trope and its power. It’s also got a bit of a Romeo & Juliet feel, and since that’s literally […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: contemporary, Kate Clayborn, Romance

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Romance · Tags: contemporary, Kate Clayborn, Romance ·
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Best Laid Plans

Lower animal content, higher angst for this sequel

Best Laid Plans by Roan Parrish

April 10, 2021 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

I was intensely curious about Jack’s brother Charlie after reading Better Than People, so I was very pleased to see that this book would be about him. Alas, the animal content of this book isn’t quite as high as the previous one in the series – only two cats. But gosh, Jane and Marmot are pretty amazing cats. When Rye inherits a house from a grandfather he never met, it seems too good to be true. But given he’s been couchsurfing in Seattle, he makes […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: contemporary, Roan Parrish, Romance

llamareadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Romance · Tags: contemporary, Roan Parrish, Romance ·
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