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I really liked this one. It’s silly, but fun!

Never Fall For Your Fiancée by Virginia Heath

April 11, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Hugh Standish, the Earl of Fareham, has a bit of a problem.  His mother is coming to visit, all the way from America, to meet his fiancée.  His fiancée who Hugh has entirely made up to stop his mother from matchmaking.  Hugh has created an entirely fictional fiancée named Minerva, and he’s about to get caught.  Or is he?   Hugh happens to come to the rescue of a young lady trying to claim her earnings from an advertisement she created illustrations for.  And just […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: CBR13, comedy of errors, only one real asshole in the whole bunch, Romance, Virginia Heath, well there's another one but he's a very minor character so he doesn't really count

crystalclear's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Romance · Tags: CBR13, comedy of errors, only one real asshole in the whole bunch, Romance, Virginia Heath, well there's another one but he's a very minor character so he doesn't really count ·
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This is a delightful middle-grade story, probably the start of a series, and I recommend it!

The Accidental Apprentice by Amanda Foody

April 11, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Barclay Thorne is an eleven-year-old orphan growing up in a small village called Dullshire.  He is apprenticed to a mushroom farmer, and he puts all that he has into his chosen profession.  Life is hard for an orphan boy in Dullshire, and there are a lot of rules to follow, many which are silly or excessive.  But one rule he is sure to follow: Never go into the Woods.  The Woods is where the Beasts are.  Beasts are dangerous.  And Beasts have magic, which is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Amanda Foody, CBR13, juvenile, start of a series

crystalclear's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Amanda Foody, CBR13, juvenile, start of a series ·
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Disappointed and Deceived

D: A Tale of Two Worlds by Michael Faber

April 11, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

My main problem with this book isn’t the content.  I’m not sure what the author intended, but my issue with his work may have nothing to do with him at all, really.  It’s the categorization.  This is being advertised as an adult fiction.  It is not.  At least with the audiobook, this is firmly in the juvenile range for me.   The premise of the story is interesting, if a bit juvenile.  Our protagonist, Dhikilo, wakes up one morning and the letter “D” is gone.  […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: apparently Somaliland is a real place, CBR13, it's a very pretty cover though, Michael Faber, really just a bunch of kids in a trenchcoat

crystalclear's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: apparently Somaliland is a real place, CBR13, it's a very pretty cover though, Michael Faber, really just a bunch of kids in a trenchcoat ·
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The main character is a dumbass

Hush by Dylan Farrow

April 11, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

This is a world where books are banned, because they are believed to have caused a plague.  Well, not necessarily the books themselves, but the ink on their pages.  The Indigo Death, and it spread throughout the land of Montane.  It took Shae’s younger brother, and her mother never really recovered.  In the village where she lives, certain words are never spoken in fear of the plague returning.  (Unless I just don’t remember, they never actually called it “the Hush.”  I think they only called […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Young Adult Tagged With: CBR13, dumbassery ahead, Dylan Farrow, just don't, one star, this book sucked, YA

crystalclear's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Audiobooks, Young Adult · Tags: CBR13, dumbassery ahead, Dylan Farrow, just don't, one star, this book sucked, YA ·
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The stories we tell ourselves

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

April 11, 2021 by Rooooomie Leave a Comment

Conversations with Friends has earned the (dubious) honor of receiving my first 5-star review of the year. For the first 3-4 chapters in the book, I didn’t think it would, but it ended up being a compulsive read that kept popping up in my mind when I was doing other things. Conversations is a tight story about a young student, Frances, and her best friend (and ex-girlfriend) Bobbi, who meet and befriend Melissa, a journalist married to a handsome actor, Nick. As Frances is drawn into Melissa […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR13, contemporary, Sally Rooney

Rooooomie's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR13, contemporary, Sally Rooney ·
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When favorite authors disappoint you, pt 2: disappoint harder

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

April 8, 2021 by Rooooomie 6 Comments

In my second review for CBR13, I wrote about how disappointing it is when one of your favorite authors writes a book that you just do not like. I don’t know if this is some kind of cannonball curse, but with book 6 of this challenge, it has happened to me again. I used to be a huge YA fan, and the first book in Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy still ranks as one of my favorites. His short novel A Monster Calls is amazing too […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR13, Fiction, Patrick Ness, YA, Young Adult

Rooooomie's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR13, Fiction, Patrick Ness, YA, Young Adult ·
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