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There’s a Girl in a Tower, But This Isn’t Her Story

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

May 9, 2024 by RouletteGirl Leave a Comment

If you know me, you know that a good fairytale retelling or interpretation is totally my jam. Robin McKinley had me by the throat for years thanks to Beauty, Deerskin, Spindle’s End, etc. So when I learned that T. Kingfisher, an author whose books I’ve previously enjoyed (and who is a delightful follow on used-to-be-Twitter), had a re-telling of Sleeping Beauty, I was more than down. Thornhedge is the story of Toadling, who was stolen by the faeries as a newborn babe, adopted by a […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR16, t kingfisher

RouletteGirl's CBR16 Review No:18 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, CBR16, t kingfisher ·
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I tried to like this book. I just could not.

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

May 1, 2024 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I really tried with this book. I borrowed the Kindle version a few months ago and got multiple hours into it. Then I just could not continue with the never-ending trauma / bad luck / shitty situations this kid was in. I guess my bad feelings went away, because I saw my sister had the Audible version last week. I gave it another shot. I started like two hours in, because I knew I had gotten at least that far. I probably listened for another […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: Barbara Kingsolver

kfishgirl's CBR16 Review No:51 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: Barbara Kingsolver ·
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More Alien Smut!

(Icehome #4) Angie's Gladiator by Ruby Dixon

(Icehome #7) Nadine's Champion by Ruby Dixon

April 30, 2024 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Here we go again with blue alien smut! Actually the two main aliens in these two books are red. So we’ll go with red alien smut. I continue to have issues with the “mating is only for procreation” themes in these books, but they’re still fun for me, and like I said in my previous review, I’m a part time escapist! Nothing screams escapist more than RED ALIEN PORN. Sorry, sometimes I go with the more demure “smut”, but it really is basically alien porn. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: Ruby Dixon

kfishgirl's CBR16 Review No:48 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: Ruby Dixon ·
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The Never Tell Collection

The Ghost Writer by Loreth Anne White

The Other Side of the Road by Andrea Bartz

Scorpions by Rachel Howzell Hall

Everywhere You Look by Liv Constantine

The Bad Friend by Caroline Kepnes

Jackrabbit Skin by Ivy Pochoda

April 30, 2024 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

OK this whole Amazon Kindle and Audible collection is called “Never Tell”. It’s supposed to be about secrets, lies, and mind games. Sounds intriguing, right? Well some of these six stories were really good – like five stars good. And some of them were “but why?” mediocre. Like “I guess this story had to be told, but why?” I’ll rank them in order from five stars to “but why” (according to me of course). Grace Logan, a successful ghostwriter is lured in by a new […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense Tagged With: andrea bartz, Caroline Kepnes, Ivy pochoda, liv constantine, Loreth Anne White, rachel howzell hall

kfishgirl's CBR16 Review No:45 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense · Tags: andrea bartz, Caroline Kepnes, Ivy pochoda, liv constantine, Loreth Anne White, rachel howzell hall ·
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Climate change is bad

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

April 30, 2024 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I do not have this physical book or audiobook, so thank you to whoever this kind hand is! It wouldn’t let me upload the cover from Goodreads for some reason, so here we are! OK so I read this as a suggestion from some website or another because of Earth Day. It was like “climate change books to read” or something benign like that. I was like “oh great, I’d love to have some updated suggestions on how to combat climate change.”   Boy was […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction Tagged With: climate change, Global Warming, Greta Thunberg, speeches

kfishgirl's CBR16 Review No:39 · Genres: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction · Tags: climate change, Global Warming, Greta Thunberg, speeches ·
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There but for the grace of god go I

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

April 19, 2024 by Sophia Leave a Comment

Some of my favorite audiobooks are memoirs that are read by the author, so I tend to look for memoirs when I need a new audiobook for my commute. I had heard of Matthew Perry’s book: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (2022), but hadn’t gotten around to it. Then Matthew Perry died on October 28, 2023 with Ketamine in his system. Although I never followed his life very closely, I was a fan of Friends when I was younger, and I felt I owed it to him […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Matthew Perry

Sophia's CBR16 Review No:6 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: Matthew Perry ·
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