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And the Abyss Stared Back

Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

August 15, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

  Mountaineering is a strange hobby. It’s not one I partake in: too strenuous, too expensive, too risky. Nevertheless I’m intrigued by it. I must have read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air at least three times. He does a good job of portraying the appeal of the sport, but illustrates the dangers and risks too – risks to himself, but to others as well. So does Olde Heuvelt’s Echo, except that it adds a twist to the familiar story. It’s easy to see where he […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: #mountaineering, horror, Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: #mountaineering, horror, Thomas Olde Heuvelt ·
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My Soul to Take – Tananarive Due (2011)

My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due

August 13, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The final novel of the African Immortals series (or I suppose, final so far), and apparently, though I didn’t know it going in, a sequel as well to Due’s other book, Joplin’s Ghost. Phoenix is a now retired musician/singer who is approached by Johnny Wright with a proposal. He works for a large corporation that has recently achieved a large amount of scrutiny and infamy as the producer of “glow” what is seen from the outside as a new drug that is both promoted as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: tananarive due

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:348 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: tananarive due ·
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Library Bingo

The Dark Tunnel by Ross Macdonald

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Billy Summers by Stephen King

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly

August 9, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I haven’t been able to keep up with the Cannonball Read Bingo, but I have been reading stuff for my library’s bingo, which helps because it encourages me to try things I’d either put off or left on my shelf to rot…   The Dark Tunnel ** Went back to the beginning with Ross Macdonald for this one. I love Ross’ Archer series and his standalones aren’t bad but this one is. Unfocused plotting, expository dialogue, characters conveniently bouncing in and out. Macdonald was trying […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: A Darkness More Than Night, Billy Summers, espionage, harry bosch, horror, Michael Connelly, Michigan, mystery, New York City, Race, Ross MacDonald, Simone St. James, Stephen King, Terry McCaleb, the broken girls, The Dark Tunnel, The Other Black Girl, thriller, Vermont, Zakiya Dalila Harris

Jake's CBR13 Review No:125 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: A Darkness More Than Night, Billy Summers, espionage, harry bosch, horror, Michael Connelly, Michigan, mystery, New York City, Race, Ross MacDonald, Simone St. James, Stephen King, Terry McCaleb, the broken girls, The Dark Tunnel, The Other Black Girl, thriller, Vermont, Zakiya Dalila Harris ·
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A raging fire that begins to surface

The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado

August 7, 2021 by Rooooomie Leave a Comment

Bingo: Gateway TW for the book: rape, sexual assault, stereotypical red-headed pimpled misogynistic teenage boys. If creepy settings, queer POC characters, and reckoning with sexual assault are your thing, this is your book. I went into this comic TP completely blind, having picked it up only because I knew Carmen Maria Machado was the writer behind it. Machado can do no wrong as far as I’m concerned, she’s a stunning writer. El and Vee are best friends living in the town of Shudder-To-Think, Pennsylvania, where […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: carmen maria machado, CBR13, cbr13bingo

Rooooomie's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Suspense · Tags: carmen maria machado, CBR13, cbr13bingo ·
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Boy Meets Car

Christine by Stephen King

August 5, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

After Arnie Cunningham falls in love with a broken down junk pile vaguely resembling a ’58 Plymouth Fury, he’s desperate to own it. His friend Dennis thinks he’s gone crazy and his parents forbid it but for the first time in practically his entire life Arnie stands up for himself and buys “Christine.” As he goes to work on restoring the car a series of curious events commences. The previous owner dies suddenly, Arnie’s repairs are going better than could possibly be expected, but the […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Stephen King

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:33 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Stephen King ·
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I need cute kittens, bunny, ice cream and my fuzzy blanket after reading this manga graphic novel!

Beast Complex Volume One by Paru Itagaki

August 4, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr13bingo Cityscape What a freaking, fracked up, screwed up ride! (only I didn’t say freaking or fracked). I picked this as the Cityscape block as you see the dirty city behind the camel and wolf on the cover. And the stories are set in this same city and in a boarding school within that city. The cover story is the reason I give this book a 3 and not 4 as I was planning after the first few stories. That story made me want to […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: animals, cbr13bingo, friendship, Japan, manga, Media Tie-In, Paru Itagaki, Predation (Biology)

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:215 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: animals, cbr13bingo, friendship, Japan, manga, Media Tie-In, Paru Itagaki, Predation (Biology) ·
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