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It’s A Plane! It’s a Plane!

Hostage by Clare Mackintosh

December 5, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

There are three things I want to touch on: the book itself, one I loved, and one I didn’t like at all. I can’t do the third without dropping a spoiler. It won’t spoil the end but will reveal the purpose of the hijacking so if that’s something you want to avoid, skip the final 3rd. But please engage with the other two. In terms of the book itself: it’s an entertaining thriller. This is my third one from Clare Mackintosh and she really knows […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Clare Mackintosh, flying, hijack thriller, hostage

Jake's CBR15 Review No:167 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Clare Mackintosh, flying, hijack thriller, hostage ·
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It’s Cuffing Season

Gerald's Game by Stephen King

December 5, 2023 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

It’s not until she’s lying in the bed of their summer vacation home handcuffed to the bedposts that Jessie Burlingame realizes just how sick she is of her husband’s shit. Over 17 years of marriage she’s witnessed him rise to the top at his corporate law firm, but she’s also witnessed his expanding waistline, receding hairline, and growing disinterest in having sex with her. Jessie is completely bored with his handcuff kink, but has been willing to go along and get things over with until […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Stephen King

jeverett15's CBR15 Review No:52 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Stephen King ·
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Rabbit go home

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by James Sturm

December 1, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Watership Down: The Graphic Novel adapted by James Sturm and illustrated by Joe Sutphin took Richard Adams’ novel and made it into a lovely book about the power of the people, and lovely illustrations that show the good and the darkness around them. The story is the one you know and maybe loved as a child, but I was fresh to the story for the most part. I knew that there would be rabbits and people had said it was dark, but other than that, I had […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Religion, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: adaptations, animals, community, family, James Sturm, Joe Sutphin, literary, nature, Richard Adams, survival

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:848 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Mystery, Religion, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: adaptations, animals, community, family, James Sturm, Joe Sutphin, literary, nature, Richard Adams, survival ·
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She sees dead people. They know they’re dead and they want justice.

Shutter: A Novel by Ramona Emerson

November 30, 2023 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

The first chapter of Shutter is tough to read. Main character Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer for the Albuquerque police department, and she is on assignment. A young woman named Erma Singleton has either jumped or been pushed to her death from an overpass over an interstate highway, and now Rita must photograph all the remains at the scene. Being a forensic photographer, seeing the aftermath of such violence on a daily basis and taking hundreds of detailed shots of it, would take an […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: CBR15, crime, Dine Navajo culture, ElCicco, Fiction, Native American, Ramona Emerson, Shutter, supernatural

ElCicco's CBR15 Review No:64 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: CBR15, crime, Dine Navajo culture, ElCicco, Fiction, Native American, Ramona Emerson, Shutter, supernatural ·
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The witch and werewolf go to school and some other things…but it’s not a romance

The Weirn Books, Vol. 1: Be Wary of the Silent Woods by Svetlana Chmakova

November 27, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Where do witches go to school? Well if you are the kids in this book, and are a special kind of witch called a Weirn, you go to the school the humans do. Only at night, after everyone has left and magic makes it morph into a school for the magical creatures. All the usual suspects are there in Svetlana Chmakova’s graphic novel, The Weirn Books, Vol. 1: Be Wary of the Silent Woods, the mean girl (who used to be a friend and has […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: cousins, family, monsters, paranormal, school, siblings, Svetlana Chmakova, werewolves, witches

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:832 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: cousins, family, monsters, paranormal, school, siblings, Svetlana Chmakova, werewolves, witches ·
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“Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?”

The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1) by Keigo Higashino

November 24, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I feel like this author and I are just jamming together on the same vibe. I’ve seen other people’s reviews and YouTube reactions/book club live shows and my reactions are so different to theirs. I really feel like I just fall into this author’s worlds and just let him shamelessly manipulate me exactly the way he wants and it’s hard for me to imagine not being enthralled by what’s happening. They’re all like ‘meh,’ and I’m like what are you talking about?!??? This particular tome […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Detective Galileo, Japanese literature, japanese puzzle mystery, Keigo Higashino, mystery, narfna, puzzle mystery, The Devotion of Suspect X

narfna's CBR15 Review No:141 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Detective Galileo, Japanese literature, japanese puzzle mystery, Keigo Higashino, mystery, narfna, puzzle mystery, The Devotion of Suspect X ·
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