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She/her. Longtime lurker, goodreads addict :D (Learn more about this Cannonballer: wicherwill's Quick Questions interview.)

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Cover art: Lapvona

“Anything could be cajoled into sense if he thought enough about it.”

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

March 15, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Moshfegh has a lock on a particular zeitgeist that I have identified, NYT-like–e.g., I have seen at least one other similar item, have decided two points make a trend, and am now on the hunt for more books that prove my point. The trend: bodily horror, especially related to starvation or atrophy of the human body, as a mechanism to reject Rousseau and vindicate Hobbes’ contention that life outside society would be solitary, nasty, brutish, and short. In this case, by showing that even within […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ottessa Moshfegh

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ottessa Moshfegh ·
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“I’d say that I regret the things I never said way more than the things I have said.”

Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams

March 15, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I really wanted to like this one more than I did! But it took a while to finish, and mostly because I didn’t find Annie very compelling as a character. Although to be fair, I also found Will a bit too convenient for the situation. So Annie is one of the many sisters of Noah Walker of our prior go-around, When in Rome. She’s the youngest one, the baby, the one everyone babies, the one who’s just seen as the kid etc etc get the drift? […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Sarah Adams, when in rome

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Sarah Adams, when in rome ·
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“But that didn’t mean his words had not been true. The most honest things were often said when you weren’t thinking.”

The Mistress Experience by Scarlett Peckham

March 15, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

This one, however, I thought was delightful! A great end to this trio, with a shiny building architecture’d by the first dude whose name now complete escapes me. Adam? While I still think Seraphina (who looks like Princess Una from the movie Stardust in my head) is my favorite of the trio, Thaïs comes second. Perhaps she would be first if typing her name didn’t require me to copy/paste every time…cursed umlauts. But Thaïs is that typical historical romance character, the out and open harlot […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Scarlett Peckham, society of sirens

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:12 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Scarlett Peckham, society of sirens ·
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Elinor shook her head wearily. “You could have simply told us. Any of us. We would have kept your secrets.”

The Portrait of a Duchess by Scarlett Peckham

March 15, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I’m not sure it really counts as finishing a book if you literally flip forward a huge chunk and then read the ending to sort of…figure out how the ending happens? But that is indeed what I did, because I wasn’t really vibing with the entire set up of this book. Which is a pity! Because I really loved Seraphina and her story, and I was all ready to dive back into this work of like, half consequences and half wish fulfillment. TO RECAP we’ve […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Scarlett Peckham, society of sirens

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:11 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Scarlett Peckham, society of sirens ·
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“You should tell her, the knight interjects, that is basically the entire point of math. Explaining stuff everyone already knows.”

The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson

February 13, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Original review: NOW IT IS TIME FOR WIND AND TRUTH (but I have another two weeks to wait) Updated long review: First off, I had a whole thing written and it got lost on Goodreads, how bizarre. Doesn’t it save automatically? So well to quickly recap (and I won’t give away who the main character/Nomad is until later on, if you want to avoid): – it’s funny how there’s SO MUCH plot crammed into these small novels between the giant paving stones (and really, they […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: brandon sanderson, cosmere

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: brandon sanderson, cosmere ·
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when in rome by sarah adams

“We are allowed to be two adults who talked about kissing that don’t plan on doing it again, and to admit that the other is attractive without jumping into a romantic relationship”

When in Rome by Sarah Adams

January 29, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I really enjoyed the characterization of Amelia in this novel. She had a very specific “voice,” one that choreographed vim and verve without flipping over towards old school manic pixie dream girl. I’m struggling with the exact vibe, but maybe she had the pizzaz of both Harry and Sally mixed into one person, set against the laconic/stoic vibe of Noah (genuinely remembered his name as Nick, to give you a sense of who is the main character in this book). The gist is this: Amelia […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Sarah Adams

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:9 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Sarah Adams ·
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