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Gotta love a fake engagement plot.

March 3, 2016 by narfna 8 Comments

After I mentioned that my library didn’t have this book, the lovely Malin sent it to me, along with books 2-4 in the series. I tried a little bit to resist reading this because I have so many other books I should be reading, but I made it barely to noon the next day before I caved. Basically, this book was fun. Malin is the best. The Duke and I is the first book in Julia Quinn’s Bridgertons series, which follows the immense Bridgerton clan, […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Bridgertons, historical romance, Julia Quinn, narfna, romance, The Duke and I

narfna's CBR8 Review No:35 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Bridgertons, historical romance, Julia Quinn, narfna, romance, The Duke and I ·
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Alexia flies in a dirigible and attends a mummy-unwrapping party, which was apparently a thing.

March 2, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

Not as good as the first one, but still pretty great. I’m loving the way she’s building the world out through new characters and concepts. I’m super mad at a certain character right now, though. It was inevitable that I wasn’t going to like this one as much as the first, because I just have this thing about reading initial romances. It was enjoyable reading about Alexia and Lord Maccon’s married relationship here, but it wasn’t as purely *fun* as their courtship in book one. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: changeless, gail carriger, narfna, romance, steampunk, the parasol protectorate, Urban Fantasy, Victorian

narfna's CBR8 Review No:34 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: changeless, gail carriger, narfna, romance, steampunk, the parasol protectorate, Urban Fantasy, Victorian ·
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Tongue-in-cheek steampunk urban fantasy romance, yes please!

February 22, 2016 by narfna 12 Comments

Loved it! Loved it, loved it, loved it. I always get really nervous when I write reviews for books that I have such positive reactions to, especially ones like this one that have such strong personalities. This book knows who it is and what it’s trying to do and does its thing with aplomb. I happened to love it immediately after reading the first sentence, but I can understand how if the humor in the writing or the language she uses, or if you don’t […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: comedy of manners, gail carriger, humor, narfna, romance, soulless, steampunk, the parasol protectorate, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR8 Review No:33 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: comedy of manners, gail carriger, humor, narfna, romance, soulless, steampunk, the parasol protectorate, Urban Fantasy ·
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First book in the series is too focused on future books, not enough on itself.

February 20, 2016 by narfna 8 Comments

My biggest problem with this book is that it felt forced, and Courtney Milan’s stuff has never felt forced to me before. I can tell she really struggled with this one. I feel like I would have been able to tell even if I hadn’t read her newsletter where she confessed that Once Upon a Marquess had given her tons of trouble, to the point where she basically had to scrap it and start the book over. There was just too much she was trying […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Courtney Milan, historical romance, narfna, Once Upon a Marquess, romance, the Worth saga

narfna's CBR8 Review No:32 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Courtney Milan, historical romance, narfna, Once Upon a Marquess, romance, the Worth saga ·
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A Bollywood disappointment.

February 18, 2016 by narfna 20 Comments

So nobody else has written a review of this yet. I guess I’ll be the first, in advance of our book club discussion next month. I’m not going to say much in this review, because I want to save most of my thoughts for then, but as will be obvious from the title of my review, I was very disappointed in this book. And I’m definitely reconsidering reading Dev’s first book, which I’d put on my TBR previously after it was featured on NPR’s romance […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: bollywood, Bollywood Bride, narfna, romance, sonali dev, the bollywood bride

narfna's CBR8 Review No:31 · Genres: Romance · Tags: bollywood, Bollywood Bride, narfna, romance, sonali dev, the bollywood bride ·
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A surprise book published without any fanfare whatsoever, because Brandon Sanderson is the Beyoncé of epic fantasy.

February 18, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

Brandon Sanderson is ridiculous. He’s all, here’s a surprise novella, and no big deal, the entire thing is made up of such game-changing ridiculous nonsense, you won’t even think it’s real as you’re reading it! You know, just been writing it since 2004 and stuff. It only gives you the most information on the Cosmere that has been released yet. It only changes a shit ton of stuff we assumed about the original trilogy and the Wax and Wayne books. NBD. Make no mistake here. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: brandon sanderson, epic fantasy, fantasy, Mistborn, mistborn: a secret history, narfna, novella, the cosmere

narfna's CBR8 Review No:30 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: brandon sanderson, epic fantasy, fantasy, Mistborn, mistborn: a secret history, narfna, novella, the cosmere ·
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