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Book Mail is the Best Mail!

December 28, 2017 by yesknopemaybe 2 Comments

Many thanks to Junior Cannonballer Loubear for this amazing selection of books! I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump lately, but these all sound amazing and I can’t wait to read and review them in 2018. Happy Holidays!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cbr9, Holiday Exchange, holiday exchange 2017, Loubear, Scootsa1000

yesknopemaybe's CBR9 Review No:0 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: cbr9, Holiday Exchange, holiday exchange 2017, Loubear, Scootsa1000 ·
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A useful little guide

December 28, 2017 by tillie Leave a Comment

This book arose from a letter to a friend. The friend had asked Adichie how to raise a feminist daughter and this book is Adichie’s answer. As books go it is fairly short, but I suppose that for a letter it is quite long. If you have read Adichie before (and if you haven’t you really should) her voice is strong and flowing in  this letter and I enjoyed reading it. I wanted to buy ten copies and just throw them at anybody who’s expecting. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cbr9, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, dear ijeawele, feminism, feminist, life advice, Mathildehoeg

tillie's CBR9 Review No:47 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: cbr9, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, dear ijeawele, feminism, feminist, life advice, Mathildehoeg ·
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Disgraceful Duke weds Runaway Bride in Scandalous Affair

December 27, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

Hurray for a new Loretta Chase book!  This is the first book in her new series Difficult Dukes, about a trio of friends and dukes known as Their Dis-Graces for their rakish activities.  Hugh Ancaster is the seventh Duke of Ripley, and his friend the Duke of Ashmont is about to marry Olympia Hightower, pressing Hugh into service as his groomsman.  Unfortunately, Olympia isn’t sure she wants to marry Ashmont and after a couple of shots of brandy, decides to make a getaway through the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: cbr9, Difficult Dukes #1, historical romance, Loretta Chase, road trip, runaway bride

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:102 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: cbr9, Difficult Dukes #1, historical romance, Loretta Chase, road trip, runaway bride ·
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Revisiting a true favourite at Christmas time

December 27, 2017 by Malin 4 Comments

When Lydia Charingford was fifteen, she was seduced and ruined by an older man. She got pregnant, and it was only through the quick wits of her friend Minnie and the support of her family that not everyone in polite society found out about it. Lydia lost the baby, and tries very hard not to dwell on that part of her past. When Dr Jonas Grantham (the junior doctor present when she was being examined and her shame was exposed to her parents) returns to […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: A Kiss for Midwinter, cbr9, Courtney Milan, historical romance, Malin, novella, the Brothers Sinister, Victorian

Malin's CBR9 Review No:122 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: A Kiss for Midwinter, cbr9, Courtney Milan, historical romance, Malin, novella, the Brothers Sinister, Victorian ·
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Probably even better than the first in the series

December 27, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars Sadia Ahmed has been a widow for over a year. She works days in the little cafe originally founded by her late husband’s family, and at night tends bar and enjoys regaling customers with the history behind the exotic cocktails she concocts. She is determined to provide the best possible life for her little boy, Kareem, and will not let anyone see just how much she’s struggling to keep her head above water. Having disappointed her parents by dropping out of med school […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Alisha Rai, cbr9, Contemporary Romance, family relationships, Forbidden Hearts, LGBTQ, Malin, Wrong to Need You

Malin's CBR9 Review No:121 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Alisha Rai, cbr9, Contemporary Romance, family relationships, Forbidden Hearts, LGBTQ, Malin, Wrong to Need You ·
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Tom Taylor’s journey comes to an end

December 27, 2017 by Malin 1 Comment

Tom Taylor is trying to find his way back to his friends, moving through a number of children’s stories. Even when he’s reunited with his storyteller father, Wilson Taylor, who by writing a popular fantasy series where the main character shared Tom’s name, pretty much gave him the abilities to move through all manner of works of fiction, and his friends, the world is in chaos, as the Leviathan, the source of all the stories in the world, is gravely wounded. The boundaries between stories […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Mystery Tagged With: adventure, apocalypse, cbr9, Graphic Novel, Malin, meta fiction, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, stories, The Unwritten, war stories

Malin's CBR9 Review No:120 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Mystery · Tags: adventure, apocalypse, cbr9, Graphic Novel, Malin, meta fiction, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, stories, The Unwritten, war stories ·
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