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Fake marriage and further hijinks

The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton

February 11, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

Alice Dearlove works for the secret organisation the Agency of Undercover Note Takers, or A.U.N.T., staffed by spies and agents disguised as ladies’ maids, butlers, footmen, and other household staff who mostly go unnoticed by the higher classes, but are usually in a position to see and hear everything. She’s one of their top agents, known within A.U.N.T only as Agent A. Usually, Miss Dearlove works alone and gets excellent results while doing so. Now she faces one of the biggest challenges of her career. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: alternate history, CBR16, Dangerous Damsels, fake marriage, funny, historical romance, India Holton, magic, Malin, paranormal fantasy, pirates, spies, The Secret Society of Tea and Treason, Victorian, witches

Malin's CBR16 Review No:8 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: alternate history, CBR16, Dangerous Damsels, fake marriage, funny, historical romance, India Holton, magic, Malin, paranormal fantasy, pirates, spies, The Secret Society of Tea and Treason, Victorian, witches ·
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Magical queer historical romance

Of Socialites and Prizefights by Arden Powell

February 10, 2024 by LB Leave a Comment

Arden Powell has been on my radar for a while and I’ve been collecting their books, but lesbians is what finally broke the seal (I am but a simple lesbian lol) and now I want to dive into the whole Flos Magicae backlist to see all the characters in their own stories. Deepa is a singer at a club and doesn’t believe in love, so when one of her paramours curses her to become a leopard every midnight and tells her the only way to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, Arden Powell, chosen family, fantasy romance, Flos Magicae, historical fiction, historical romance, lesbian, magic, queer, romantasy, sapphic

LB's CBR16 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, Arden Powell, chosen family, fantasy romance, Flos Magicae, historical fiction, historical romance, lesbian, magic, queer, romantasy, sapphic ·
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Super problems need super friends

Sort of Super V02 The Magma Cup by Eric Gapstur

February 9, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

They tell me that I am an adult. At least, physically. Mentally? Well that’s totally up for debate. And this is never more plain than when I read a book like Sort of Super V02 The Magma Cup by Eric Gapstur. I have read and reviewed volume one, and do recommend reading the first volume well, first as a lot of book two is a continuation from one, however, with a lot of new goodies as well.  A quick summary of book one: Wyatt Flynn […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Eric Gapstur, family, friendship, mothers, siblings, super heroes

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:61 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Eric Gapstur, family, friendship, mothers, siblings, super heroes ·
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Outside of their comfort zone

Haru: Book 1: Spring by Joe Latham

February 9, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Haru: Book 1: Spring by Joe Latham is a fantasy story with the fantasy elements of adventure. There is a ghost mother, a cursed artifact, and magical and magical-like situations. We also have a coming of age aspect with the bullying Haru faces at school. Then there is the character The Dark. It is creepy AF. But also, due to the way Latham has created it, it can be seductive, or at least is (pick one or all that fit), beautiful, romantic, dark, scary, creepy, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery Tagged With: animals, bullying, coming-of-age, family, friendship, Joe Latham, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:60 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery · Tags: animals, bullying, coming-of-age, family, friendship, Joe Latham, Social Themes ·
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War makes Hell look cozy

The Horizon Volume One by jh

February 9, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I was cleaning up old online reader copy links the other day and I said, “Self, let’s try The Horizon Volume one.” So, I did (though it is currently available).  Of course, I did not realize it was volume one (I have a habit of doing that) and just thought it was around 300 pages of a dystopian artistic graphic novel. And it was. Only the ending has a cliffhanger ending that made me say, “WHAT THE FLAMING MONKEY TOOTS??”  How did that happen? I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Children, Dystopian, jh, orphans, Social Themes, war

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:59 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Children, Dystopian, jh, orphans, Social Themes, war ·
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When angler fish look cuddly

Five Nights at Freddy’s V01 The Silver Eyes by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley

Five Nights at Freddy’s V02 The Twisted Ones by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley

February 9, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am not a Five Nights at Freddy’s fan. I picked up a graphic novel a few years ago because I was curious about what it was about, but found out later that it was not the “real Freddy” but Goosebump-like stories about things that were spooky. Then recently, I picked up Five Nights at Freddy’s V02 The Twisted Ones in graphic novel form. Of course, I picked up book two and not one, but I thought since I knew I had read something  that […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Christopher Hastings, Claudia Aguirre, Claudia Schroder, family, Five Nights at Freddy’s, friendships, Kira Breed-Wrisley, Scott Cawthon, Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley, technology

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:57 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Christopher Hastings, Claudia Aguirre, Claudia Schroder, family, Five Nights at Freddy’s, friendships, Kira Breed-Wrisley, Scott Cawthon, Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley, technology ·
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