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The Librarian of Crooked Lane

The Librarian of Crooken Lane by C.J. Archer

February 2, 2023 by jmsudar 2 Comments

There’s a genre of TV my wife and I return to time and again, for which I shamelessly claim the honor of having named: Comfort Comedy. This is the media equivalent of mac & cheese. Nothing revelatory, nothing risky, and at the end of the day you know you’ll feel satisfied, comforted, and um… full, I guess. This for us is fiction like Bob’s Burgers and Kim’s Convenience. It’ll tell scampy stories with some hijinks but always come back to homeostasis of a loving family who […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: C.J. Archer

jmsudar's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: C.J. Archer ·
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Magical timepieces

November 24, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

This book is a mashup of mystery, magic, romance and historical fiction and I wanted to like it just based on that.  Despite that, it was rather lacking in romance and the magic was rather minimal. The heroine, India Steele, is reaching a point of desperation as the book begins.  Her father is recently deceased, and the man she was engaged to has snatched her inheritance out from under her.  Well, the shop had been left to the fiance, because of course a woman couldn’t […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, History, Mystery Tagged With: C.J. Archer, cbr9, Glass & Steele #1, historical mystery/magic/romance

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:92 · Genres: Fantasy, History, Mystery · Tags: C.J. Archer, cbr9, Glass & Steele #1, historical mystery/magic/romance ·
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“It takes more than trinkets and promises to intrigue me now.”

January 7, 2017 by ArchaeoKelly Leave a Comment

Miss India Steele is down on her luck.  She has recently lost her father, and her fiance has dropped her after taking over her father’s shop in Victorian London.  It is in that shop that she meets the mysterious Mr. Matthew Glass while confronting her ex.  Mr. Glass employs her to help him find a watchmaker in London who created an absolutely unique pocket watch, and is the only one who can repair it.  Miss Steele helps Mr. Glass, meeting his strange bunch of family […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: C.J. Archer

ArchaeoKelly's CBR9 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: C.J. Archer ·
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