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It’s why you jump in the first place..

The Upside of Falling Down by Rebekah Crane

December 16, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

The plot of Crane’s young adult novel sounded intriguing when my book club picked it for our last book of the year. Young woman is the lone survivor of a plane crash in Ireland. Suffering from amnesia, she finds herself struggling to recall anything about who she is. Enter handsome, slightly ruffled blue-eyed Irish-accented stranger. I know, I know. In my defense, I was hopeful that the whole true identity situation would bear some satisfying fruit from the plot tree. Sadly, it did not. I’m […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: #ModernRomance, cbr11, Rebekah Crane, Young Adult

Leedock's CBR11 Review No:55 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: #ModernRomance, cbr11, Rebekah Crane, Young Adult ·
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She has fainted from ill-usage and exhaustion.

Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

December 16, 2019 by Leedock 4 Comments

Nope. I think that I can now honestly say that I am not a fan of Sherlock Holmes. Give me all of the re-tellings, please, but spare me the prototype. I tried. I really, really tried. I should not have to try so hard. While I did appreciate A Study in Scarlet, the terrible (and worst book of the year for me) The Sign of Four took way too much time out of my life that I will never get back. Sadly, I am afraid that this gothic […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, cbr11, classic, mystery, Sherlock Holmes

Leedock's CBR11 Review No:54 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, cbr11, classic, mystery, Sherlock Holmes ·
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The situation gets rough then I start to panic.

Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi

December 16, 2019 by scootsa1000 1 Comment

Mary H.K. Choi’s Emergency Contact is going on my list of favorite books of 2019, so there was no doubt I was going to read Permanent Record as soon as I could get my hands on it. Pablo Neruda Rind, the half Korean and half Pakistani son of a pair of poetry lovers, is in a rut. Since he dropped out of NYU after (during? unclear.) his freshman year, he works the nightshift in a fancy Brooklyn bodega and hangs out with his roommates. He […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, emergency contact, Mary H.K. Choi, permanent record, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR11 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11, emergency contact, Mary H.K. Choi, permanent record, Scootsa1000 ·
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“I am a museum of art but you had your eyes shut”

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

December 14, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: milk and honey is a collection of poetry about love loss trauma abuse healing and femininity it is split into four chapters each chapter serves a different purpose deals with a different pain heals a different heartache milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in the life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look Poetry is just one of those genres I don’t really read, at […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: abuse, cbr11, heartbreak, Love, Malin, milk and honey, poetry, Romance, Rupi Kaur, trauma

Malin's CBR11 Review No:89 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: abuse, cbr11, heartbreak, Love, Malin, milk and honey, poetry, Romance, Rupi Kaur, trauma ·
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Hungry like the wolf

Wolfsong by T.J. Klune

December 14, 2019 by Malin 3 Comments

Official book description: Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road. The little boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the little boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the little boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbr11, friendship, Greek Creek, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, paranormal fantasy, Romance, T.J. Klune, werewolves, witches, Wolfsong

Malin's CBR11 Review No:88 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr11, friendship, Greek Creek, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, paranormal fantasy, Romance, T.J. Klune, werewolves, witches, Wolfsong ·
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This reimagining just doesn’t do justice to the old classic

Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

December 14, 2019 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

Almost every year I’ll take a time-out from holiday mayhem and revisit A Christmas Carol. I was reluctant to review it for CBR, though, because I did that already, back in 2014. So I hit the internet and searched for something Christmas-related that I hadn’t read before and found Mr. Dickens and His Carol on several lists of best Christmas books. Mr. Dickens and His Carol is a fictional account of how Dickens came to write that famous Christmas ghost story. A few details do come […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, christmas, classic retellings, classics, Dickens, KimMiE", Samantha Silva

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11, christmas, classic retellings, classics, Dickens, KimMiE", Samantha Silva ·
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