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Loved the Real Life Backstory to this Book, Thought Some Dialogue Sounded Fake

Color Me In by Natasha Diaz

July 9, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on August 20, 2019. So “Color Me In” has a young adult character that I think some readers will definitely enjoy. We follow 15 year old Nevaeh Levitz who is dealing with the fall out of her parents separation. She and her mother are living with her mother’s relatives in Harlem while her mother tries to move forward. Nevaeh feels trapped between the world […]

CBR11Bingo: History/Schmistory

The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism by John U. Bacon

July 9, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

History/Schmistory Well, the great thing about having a 65 book backlog is I can almost certainly fill a board. The bad thing is — reviewing 65 books… This book was really good though so it’s a great place to start! The Halifax explosion took place in 1917 (history!) and truly changed the world — the aftermath of the explosion affected medicine, World War I, nuclear science and the relationship between the United States and Canada. It also took over 2,000 lives, and caused thousands of […]

Solid Start to a New Series, Some Bugs to Work Out

The Nantucket Inn by Pamela Kelley

July 9, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Well I enjoyed all of the background on Nantucket and this book definitely made me want to visit there since everything sounds so fun. I think Kelley has a good eye for describing people, places, and food. Seriously the food that was described sounded awesome. I really wish recipes had been included. That said, I think it was a little lacking with the romance portion and character development. I also think that doing the whole fade to black then showing actual moments of intimacy between […]

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Snowpiercer 2: The Explorers by Benjamin LeGrand and Jean-Marc Rochette

Snowpiercer 3: Terminus by Olivier Bocquet and Jean-Marc Rochette

July 9, 2019 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr11bingo Illustrated The Snowpiercer trilogy is an example of the whole being less than the sum of its parts. I was on board after the first volume. It hinted at some very interesting history for its main character Proloff, as well as complex, sinister military and political machinations that precipitated the endless, deadly winter that has engulfed the world and forced survivors onto the Snowpiercer, a perpetually moving train. The reader was left with a number of cliffhangers at the end of that volume. And […]

One worth finishing, one not

An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg

Nancy Mitford: the Biography by Harold Acton

July 8, 2019 by Manimama Leave a Comment

This one is my CBR Bingo Summer read, as I picked it up at the cabin we stayed at during vacation (and replaced it with a book that I just couldn’t get through). Jean Gilkyson and her daughter are on the run from an abusive boyfriend. Jean has a history of picking shitty men, and her daughter Griff is growing up too quickly because of it. After a particularly violent night, Jean and Griff leave town to make a life elsewhere. Unfortunately, their money runs […]

The worst

Season of the Sun by Catherine Coulter

July 8, 2019 by Manimama 1 Comment

Likening this book to trash is, without exaggeration, an insult to dumps all over the world. Zarabeth lives with her pervy step-father Olav and her young step-sister Lotti. A viking farmer/trader/raider named Magnus sees her and immediately decides that he must marry her. She’s pretty ok with that idea but has to convince Magnus that she has changed her mind when Olav threatens to hurt Lotti. Fast-forward a bit (Days? Weeks? Months? No clue) and Zarabeth has been forced to marry the pervy step-father. […]

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