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Good evening, everyone. I'm Leslie Monster, and this is Nightline. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: narfna's Quick Questions interview.)

narfna's Reviews:

A sweet, short read.

The Library by Bella Osborne

November 13, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a nice read. A bit misleading of a title—it’s less about the library than you’d think—but nice. As with many three-and-a-half-star books for me that are just good reads—nothing out of the ordinary or particularly noteworthy, but nothing worth criticizing either—it’s pretty hard to drum up a review. Especially since I have forgotten all the characters’ names and just had to look them all up. Through a series of charmingly contrived circumstances, sixteen-year old Tom and seventy-two year old Maggie become friends through […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bella Osborne, British, contemporary fiction, Fiction, narfna, The Library

narfna's CBR14 Review No:185 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bella Osborne, British, contemporary fiction, Fiction, narfna, The Library ·
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Something here went more wrong than usual.

House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

November 12, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Usually no matter what feelings I am having for the books of one Sarah J. Maas—positive, negative, or meh—I at least find her books to be entertaining and I can’t usually put them down. Except for two books now: Kingdom of Ash, and now this one. I’m pretty sure I know why I wasn’t satisfied by this reading experience, and was quite frequently annoyed by it, but I’m not sure WHY it’s that way. In my opinion here two strongest books are A Court of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, Crescent City, fantasy romance, House of Sky and Breath, narfna, sarah j maas, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR14 Review No:184 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, Crescent City, fantasy romance, House of Sky and Breath, narfna, sarah j maas, Urban Fantasy ·
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WTF cliffhanger. #CBRBINGO – Heart

Fool's Assassin (Fitz and the Fool, #1) by Robin Hobb

November 10, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Been putting off writing this review because with each book in this series, my emotions get more and more entangled and it’s basically agony to write about them because it makes me feel them all over again. Luckily, until about the last hundred pages, this book wasn’t as agony-filled as the rest of the Fitz books have been, but those last hundred pages sure make up for it. The rest of the book, though not exactly sad, was also emotionally intense. Basically, you’re signing up […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr14bingo, epic fantasy, favorites, Fitz and the Fool, fool's assassin, narfna, realms of the elderlings, robin hobb

narfna's CBR14 Review No:183 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, cbr14bingo, epic fantasy, favorites, Fitz and the Fool, fool's assassin, narfna, realms of the elderlings, robin hobb ·
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I still can’t believe how much I disliked this book.

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

November 5, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

This was one of my most anticipated books of the year, so naturally I chose it for one of my book clubs, because I like pushing books on willing victims. Joke was on me! We all hated it, every single one of us. What was this???? How could such a good premise biff it so hard? First of all, this is NOT a heist book. We spend approximately 5% of the book with the characters doing crime, and that is probably generous. There is also […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Grace D. Li, lit-fic, literary, narfna, portrait of a thief

narfna's CBR14 Review No:182 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Grace D. Li, lit-fic, literary, narfna, portrait of a thief ·
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My first five-star TJR.

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

November 3, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

Thanks to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC. It has not affected the content of my review. Oh, hey, look at that. Five stars. I think no one is more surprised about that rating than me after slowly making my way through this over the past two and a half months (this was written in August). But really, I was only slow because I didn’t expect to get this ARC, so I was reading it in between other books when I had time. But […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ARCs, Carrie Soto is back, historical fiction, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis

narfna's CBR14 Review No:181 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ARCs, Carrie Soto is back, historical fiction, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis ·
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The village of hysterical women.

The Village of Eight Graves (Kosuke Kindaichi, #3) by Seishi Yokomizo

November 3, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Whaaaat the heck happened here. This was a mess. In fact, I had such a different reading experience with this third translated book in the Kosuke Kindaichi series that I kind of have to wonder if it was me and not the book, since presumably the English publisher chose to translate and publish this one third out of all the many, many available books in the series for a reason (and it’s not third in original publication order). I really wasn’t expecting to have such […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: audiobooks, japanese, Japanese mystery, mystery, Seishi Yokomizo, the village of eight graves, translated

narfna's CBR14 Review No:180 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: audiobooks, japanese, Japanese mystery, mystery, Seishi Yokomizo, the village of eight graves, translated ·
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