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“I have enclosed for you a picture of a man with the head of a pig. I leave you to wonder at its significance.”

In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint by Alexandra Vasti

July 31, 2024 by Nart Leave a Comment

The second novella in the Halifax Hellions series and another strong entry. Stuns me that Vasti gave these out for free, but what a way to whet our appetites for a full length novel. Plot: If you recall from the first novella, according to her sister Margo, Matilda had been basically abducted by an old man who had murdered his previous wife to be (forcibly?) married, then tortured at his distant Northern estate until death. Yikes. Now we get Matilda’s version. We find out that […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance Tagged With: Alexandra Vasti

Nart's CBR16 Review No:26 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance · Tags: Alexandra Vasti ·
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“That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific.”

The Cinderella Deal by Jennifer Crusie

July 29, 2024 by Nart 1 Comment

I love reading Crusie novels to remind myself that not every romance novel pre-mid-2000’s is, in retrospect, unreadable trash. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore Loretta Chase, but her 90’s books, as lovely as they are, definitely still need to be read with the context that those books are 30 years old now. The real pain from reading this book almost 30 years later was that Daisy was paying, for a bachelor apartment, $300/month in rent. *cries in rent inflation and wage stagnation* Plot: […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Romance Tagged With: jennifer crusie

Nart's CBR16 Review No:25 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Romance · Tags: jennifer crusie ·
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“Jesus. He was talking to a cloak.”

In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation by Alexandra Vasti

July 29, 2024 by Nart Leave a Comment

Belligerent twin sisters who wreak havoc on the Ton for their amusement as their own form of protest against Society’s chokehold on women. Plot: Margo has carried the title of being one half of the Halifax Hellions for about 7 years now, since they were first introduced to society. Frankly, at this point it feels more like work than fun trying to keep thinking up new ways to outdo their previous shocking conduct. Just smoking a cheroot and tying cherry stems in knots won’t do […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance Tagged With: Alexandra Vasti

Nart's CBR16 Review No:24 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance · Tags: Alexandra Vasti ·
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“It’s a library, Daphne. If you can’t be a human here, where can you?”

Funny Story by Emily Henry

July 29, 2024 by Nart Leave a Comment

Take the plot of one early 2000’s B grade rom com, and add intense emotional stakes and sex, and you have yourself an Emily Henry novel. Plot: Daphne has a job she loves, just bought her first ever house, which she plans on sharing with her “tv handsome” fiancé who is also loaded, and she is about to recapture the magic of her youth by finally launching an overnight readathon where kids stay overnight at the library reading and raising money for the library she […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance Tagged With: Emily Henry

Nart's CBR16 Review No:23 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance · Tags: Emily Henry ·
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“You made a severed finger into a feckin’ snow globe.” “It was almost Christmas,” she says with a shrug. “It felt … festive.”

Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

July 25, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars CBR16 Bingo: Bananas   Lark Montague and Lachlan Kane have an unfortunate first meeting, when Lark during Halloween has had an “accident” and needs a car and a body fished out of a lake. Lachlan is the man forced by his employer to come help her do this. Lachlan is in scuba gear, Lark is heavily made up in a Halloween costume. Lachlan chooses to force Lark into the car of his trunk to transport her unseen away from the incident site, not […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: audio book, Bananas, Brynne Weaver, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Contemporary Romance, Eric Nolan, family, Hit Man, Leather & Lark, Malin, Samantha Brentmoor, serial killer, Suspense, The Ruinous Love trilogy

Malin's CBR16 Review No:36 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: audio book, Bananas, Brynne Weaver, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Contemporary Romance, Eric Nolan, family, Hit Man, Leather & Lark, Malin, Samantha Brentmoor, serial killer, Suspense, The Ruinous Love trilogy ·
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Ali Wong is a funny lady

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

July 24, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nowhere Books Bingo: About someone you want to learn more about I don’t think I’d heard of Ali Wong before her first Netflix special, Baby Cobra. I’ve now seen all her stand-up specials and also enjoyed Always Be My Maybe, a fun romantic comedy she wrote and starred in with Randall Park, and famously got Keanu Reeves to star as himself. I’ve heard very good things about Beef, but there’s just too much TV out there at the moment, and too little time (especially if […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: Ali Wong, audio book, autobiography, CBR16, celebrity, comedy, Dear Girls, life advice, Malin, Nowhere Book Bingo, stand up

Malin's CBR16 Review No:33 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: Ali Wong, audio book, autobiography, CBR16, celebrity, comedy, Dear Girls, life advice, Malin, Nowhere Book Bingo, stand up ·
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