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“It is always awkward to be face-to-face with people who have what you want.”

Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil

June 1, 2024 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Even though Joanne McNeil is a “technology” writer, she always writes first and foremost about people. In her non-fiction book Lurking, she used her own experience growing up online to explore how over time people became “users.” (Blech! I miss you, 1990s internet!) She starts close and human and then zooms out to larger cultural issues. I think that’s where the power of her insight comes from – the humanity of it. McNeil’s debut novel Wrong Way is fiction, but the author employs the same […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Joanne McNeil

Halbs's CBR16 Review No:3 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Joanne McNeil ·
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To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half-hidden.

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

May 31, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Miri said this to me once: Every horror movie ends the way you know it will. ― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea Having people be kind to you is so important, but it’s also incredibly irritating. It’s hard to find the balance of what you’re actually able to accept without wanting to hit someone. ― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea When Miri’s wife Leah, a scientist and explorer, returns home safely after a submarine accident, Miri has to learn how to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: caregiver, Julia Armfield, Lesbian couples, magical realism, mother daughter relationships, Queer characters, submarine

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: caregiver, Julia Armfield, Lesbian couples, magical realism, mother daughter relationships, Queer characters, submarine ·
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What lurks in the corn

The Girl in the Corn by Jason Offutt

May 31, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I’m starting my review of The Girl in the Corn, with the that there are big time TRIGGERS in this book. After all, it’s a horror book and therefore there are several horror images. Perhaps they could be more so, but even what they do show (such as the murder of a child, the brutal murder of the dog and several other people, plus drug use/abuse, guns, kidnapping, sex, and what I consider rape) is not pleasant to say the least, and, of course could […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Dark Fantasy, family, friendship, good vs evil, Jason Offutt, Mental Health, Right & Wrong, Social Themes, values

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:221 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Dark Fantasy, family, friendship, good vs evil, Jason Offutt, Mental Health, Right & Wrong, Social Themes, values ·
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A World You Want To Wear Like a Blanket

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

May 29, 2024 by RouletteGirl 2 Comments

Becky Chambers’ first Monk & Robot book, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, struck a chord in me in a way that few other books have. Chambers built a world so beautiful, so full of hope, that I just wanted to curl up in it like a blanket. She continues that glorious world-building in the second book, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy. Picking up right after book 1, we join Sibling Dex and Mosscap as they re-enter human territory and plan to introduce Mosscap to the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Featured, Science Fiction Tagged With: Becky Chambers, CBR16, cozy fantasy

RouletteGirl's CBR16 Review No:21 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Featured, Science Fiction · Tags: Becky Chambers, CBR16, cozy fantasy ·
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Or, The Cheeto-Driven Life of Crows

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

May 29, 2024 by RouletteGirl Leave a Comment

S.T. the crow (full name Shit Turd) realizes something is deeply wrong with his human, Big Jim, when Jim’s eyeball falls straight out of his head and lands on the ground. Things only get worse from there. The illness affecting Big Jim seems to have struck everyone else in Seattle too, and it’s turned all those MoFos (what Big Jim and S.T. call humans) into mindless horrors that will eat their pets as soon as look at them. S.T., along with Big Jim’s bloodhound Dennis, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: animal POV, CBR16, Kira Jane Buxton

RouletteGirl's CBR16 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: animal POV, CBR16, Kira Jane Buxton ·
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Codependant Hacker in Search of a Cause

The Salvation Gambit by Emily Skrutskie

May 28, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

After a job gone wrong, Murdock and her gang of con artists are tithed to a sentient warship that’s styled itself into a punitive god. Escaping the ship would be hard enough – but when the Justice takes a personal interest in Murdock, the stakes only get higher. I have been slowing dipping my toes into the space opera genre, mostly via the wonderful Becky Chambers, but I am always on the lookout for more. And the premise of this book immediately sold me – […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, adventure, ARC, con artists, Emily Skrutskie, lgbt, NetGalley, space opera

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:70 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, adventure, ARC, con artists, Emily Skrutskie, lgbt, NetGalley, space opera ·
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