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Trying too hard to be too much

Finna by Nino Cipri

June 24, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I don’t like it when recommendations and blurbs lie to me, or are misleading. I also don’t especially enjoy it when a story is trying so hard to make some kind of meaningful point that it repeatedly directly tells you it’s trying to make said point. Finna has so much going for it: basically a pair of queer employees, both of whom have emotional or neuro-divergent struggles, of a store that sounds suspiciously like IKEA, who very recently broke up, end up going on an […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, finna, ikea, LGBTQ, nino cipri, queer, Speculative Fiction

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:54 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, finna, ikea, LGBTQ, nino cipri, queer, Speculative Fiction ·
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“burn before reading”

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El -Mohtar & Max Gladstone

June 20, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

If this is what the Time War feels like, then I volunteer as tribute. This two-hander from Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone burns bright right in the center of your chest and dares you to put it out. Red and Blue are operatives on either side of a war that has been going on since before time existed and well past the end of the universe. They are fierce and wild warriors; brilliant minds matched with brilliant and sharp teeth. They claw their way through […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: . hope, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, conversation, espionage, LGTBQ, love letters, love story, novella, Quick read, survival, time travel, war

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:63 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: . hope, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, conversation, espionage, LGTBQ, love letters, love story, novella, Quick read, survival, time travel, war ·
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This one is for thinking, not for fun

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

June 11, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I wish I’d had more time with this novel but I had to give An Unkindness of Ghosts back to the library because someone else requested it. This means I may have had to rush reading a little and thus may not be as particular about the style and details as I might otherwise be. Here’s why this matters: this is not one of those books you read and enjoy. This is one of those books you read, either don’t exactly like or quite understand […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, queer, Race, Rivers Solomon, space fiction, Speculative Fiction, The Future is Queer

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:49 · Genres: Book Club, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, queer, Race, Rivers Solomon, space fiction, Speculative Fiction, The Future is Queer ·
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Bunnatine, Immy, Demon Lover, and Ghost Boyfriend walk into a bar…

Get In Trouble by Kelly Link

June 9, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Well, sometimes it’s a bar filled with men raised by wolves. Sometimes it’s a space ship. A warehouse full of mysterious sleeping people. A magical house full of “summer people”. A haunted house on a space ship. A lake where a few dozen nudists disappeared in the seventies. The penthouse party at a hotel full of dentists and super heroes. The crumbling remains of a Wizard of Oz theme park. A pocket universe that opened above Florida. Kelly Link writes things that are fantastic and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Appalachia, coming-of-age, despair, Kelly Link, Love, magical realism, melancholy, pulitzer noms, super heroes

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:56 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Appalachia, coming-of-age, despair, Kelly Link, Love, magical realism, melancholy, pulitzer noms, super heroes ·
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Loved the mystery and secret societies, current events made the excessive privilege stomach churning

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

June 8, 2020 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

As much as I adore the Grishaverse, it was nice to see Bardugo flex her writer muscles in something new.  She certainly starts this book with a vivid sentence that seized me right away. By the time Alex managed to get the blood out of her good wool coat, it was too warm to wear it. Ninth House is gripping murder mystery, set in a version of our world where magic exists and is hoarded by the secret societies of Yale.  Perhaps you’ve heard of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr12, Dome'Loki, Fiction, Leigh Bardugo, mystery, Speculative Fiction, Urban Fantasy

Dome'Loki's CBR12 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr12, Dome'Loki, Fiction, Leigh Bardugo, mystery, Speculative Fiction, Urban Fantasy ·
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Imagine being stuck in space with HAL, a zombie-virus, and your very recently ex-partner

Illuminae (Illuminae Files 1) by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

June 6, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

If you take some of the more famous bits that include humans from 2001: Space Odyssey, add a probably evil corporation out to destroy everyone and everything the main characters hold dear, a deadly zombie-like virus, and two main characters who are teenagers who have just broken up at the beginning of all the trouble, you have the basic premise of Illuminae (The Illuminae Files_01). If you know the basic types just noted, then you know the characters and the narrative already for the most […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: adventure, amie kaufman, Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, illuminae, illuminae files, jay kristoff, space fiction, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:46 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: adventure, amie kaufman, Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, illuminae, illuminae files, jay kristoff, space fiction, YA ·
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