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Holy freaking crap this was a long book.

September 7, 2018 by kfishgirl 3 Comments

cbr10bingo… Home something home So as my title suggests, this book was INSANELY long.  And I’ve read IT by Stephen King!!!  Ok I just checked, It was twice as long as this book.  Why did it feel like the other way around???  I think Mr. Cronin went to the Stephen King school of TELL ME EVERY FREAKING DETAIL ABOUT EVERY FREAKING THING, and then took it fifty five steps further.  Even though it doesn’t sound like it, I did like the book.  I just absolutely […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Amy, apocalypse, cbr10bingo, Justin Cronin, virals

kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:45 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Amy, apocalypse, cbr10bingo, Justin Cronin, virals ·
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Way more involved than I originally anticipated, but still good!

June 27, 2018 by kfishgirl 1 Comment

I’m not entirely sure where to start this review.  I guess I’ll start at the beginning, and how I got into reading this book.  I’m one of those people who sees that a new movie / TV show is based on a book and wants to immediately read the book.  It’s happened so far with: A Handmaid’s Tale, A Wrinkle in Time, The Darkest Minds, and this book.  I’m sure there were others too!  I always want to read the source material before I see […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: apocalypse, Justin Cronin, vampires, virals, virus

kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: apocalypse, Justin Cronin, vampires, virals, virus ·
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It’s Apocalyptic!

May 29, 2018 by thewheelbarrow 1 Comment

I wanted to read this book for a while.  I love Neil Gaiman but I’ve never read Terry Pratchett and this seemed like the best of both worlds.  In high school, I steered very clear of Pratchett.  He was far too uncool for me.  Now that I read fantasy and science fiction so much it seems odd that I ever held such an opinion.  Needless to say, this book has been on my list for a while. This is also one of the first audiobooks […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, pratchett

thewheelbarrow's CBR10 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, pratchett ·
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Tom Taylor’s journey comes to an end

December 27, 2017 by Malin 1 Comment

Tom Taylor is trying to find his way back to his friends, moving through a number of children’s stories. Even when he’s reunited with his storyteller father, Wilson Taylor, who by writing a popular fantasy series where the main character shared Tom’s name, pretty much gave him the abilities to move through all manner of works of fiction, and his friends, the world is in chaos, as the Leviathan, the source of all the stories in the world, is gravely wounded. The boundaries between stories […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Mystery Tagged With: adventure, apocalypse, cbr9, Graphic Novel, Malin, meta fiction, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, stories, The Unwritten, war stories

Malin's CBR9 Review No:120 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Mystery · Tags: adventure, apocalypse, cbr9, Graphic Novel, Malin, meta fiction, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, stories, The Unwritten, war stories ·
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Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

December 7, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion Tagged With: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion · Tags: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army ·
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I wanted to be more into it

October 17, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So this is book 5 in the Omega Days series.  I read the first four and loved them.  I think maybe if I had read this right after I finished book 4, I would’ve been more into it.  I kinda forgot about where everyone was in the world, and I kinda lost my connection to the characters.  I didn’t have the opportunity to read it right after I finished book 4 though, because it wasn’t out yet! Anyway… I feel like every single one of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: apocalypse, Hobgoblins, John L. Campbell, zombies

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: apocalypse, Hobgoblins, John L. Campbell, zombies ·
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