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“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it existing for the rest of us.”

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune

September 1, 2023 by Merryn Leave a Comment

Bingo: Queer Lives;  Passport: Sweet weird It’s no spoiler to say that it was obvious how this book was going to end right from the start, or at least from the moment in protagonist Linus Barker’s train journey when “the gray darkness gave way to a bright and wonderful blue like Linus had never seen before”. Linus is a caseworker in the drab and regimented Department in Charge of Magical Youth, an inspector of orphanages for children gifted, or afflicted, with traits of myth and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, sweet weird, T.J. Klune

Merryn's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, sweet weird, T.J. Klune ·
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I want to see this Bond movie

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: An original Jane Bond Parody by Mabel Maney

August 31, 2023 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr15bingo sex This book was published in 2001 and somehow I only just heard about it a few weeks ago. It is a hoot, with the kind of silly-named characters and wacky mix-ups that you might find in a Jeeves and Wooster novel. American writer Mabel Maney gives us the story of Jane Bond, the lesbian sister of James, who drinks and sleeps around like her brother but who lives in a run-down bedsit and works at a bookstore in 1965 London. Jane is dealing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, humor, Jane Bond Parody, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy, Mabel Maney, parody

ElCicco's CBR15 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, humor, Jane Bond Parody, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy, Mabel Maney, parody ·
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Watching Beckett while the world burns

The Performance by Claire Thomas

August 26, 2023 by Merryn Leave a Comment

Bingo: Bodies;  Passport: Contemporary fiction On the stage a woman is buried up to her waist in a hill of parched grass, desperately cheerful under the blazing light.  In the theatre three women watch, their thoughts sliding between the performance, their surroundings and their lives outside.  Margot sits with her “expensive, unobstructed view of the stage” trying not to think about the meeting with the dean, when the prospect of her retirement was spoken aloud.  Margot is tense, envious of the woman’s offstage husband and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, Claire Thomas

Merryn's CBR15 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, Claire Thomas ·
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“Even the afterlife is designed to keep the masses stupid.”

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

August 25, 2023 by Merryn Leave a Comment

Bingo: Asia/Oceania; Passport: Sri Lanka Maali Almeida is dead.  He can’t remember exactly what happened, and it takes a while for the reality of his situation to sink in.  Death is confusing, a bureaucratic maze with rules that everyone seems to expect him to already know, and forms that must be filled in before his seven days are up and he must choose what happens next. Maali desperately wants to know how he died.  He can follow his body through the ghost-ridden streets of Colombo […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: booker prize winner, CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, magic realism, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka

Merryn's CBR15 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: booker prize winner, CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, magic realism, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka ·
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Coming soon to a screen near you

Damascus Station by David McCloskey

August 25, 2023 by Merryn 3 Comments

Bingo: Politics, Passport: Syria This is a book that’s begging to be made into a movie, or maybe a prestige mini series.  It ticks all the boxes.   Author David McCloskey, is a former CIA agent, so will have some great anecdotes for the promotional tour. Main character Sam Joseph would be a great role for someone trying to break into the action hero gig before the old guys hog all the lead roles forever using CGI to stay young.  There are also strong female characters […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, David McCloskey, spy thriller

Merryn's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, David McCloskey, spy thriller ·
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Love, Destiny, and the Military Industrial Complex

Wicked Academia: Lost Stars by Jasmine Jenkins, Sophie Suliman

August 24, 2023 by Sarah 1 Comment

Okay, help, I’ve just read a damn good book on Kindle Unlimited and I think that might be a sign of the apocalypse? Hear me out! Essentially, Lost Stars takes place in a universe where a trio of gods fell apart after one went evil, another killed him for it, and the mother goddess prophesied three more children who were supposed to redeem and replace what they all broke. …but then that never happened. Until three total disaster teenagers ruin a national festival and save […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, #indiepub, bisexual, CBR15, cbr15 bingo, fantasy romance, Jasmine Jenkins, Sophie Suliman, LGBTQ, Romance

Sarah's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, #indiepub, bisexual, CBR15, cbr15 bingo, fantasy romance, Jasmine Jenkins, Sophie Suliman, LGBTQ, Romance ·
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