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The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin

July 15, 2021 by Debcapsfan Leave a Comment

CBR Square: Cityscape. Shoutout to the folks who put together the CBR Bingo, because I was wondering where to fit this book, then I looked at the paperback cover and realized it has a cityscape in a shoe outline. I liked this book more than the last Cannonball Reviewer, but it did drag in several placed for me. The Charmed Wife is a retelling of Cinderella, where she’s been married to her Prince for 13.5 years and he’s a cheating horndog. This is hammered home […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, cityscapes, fairytale retelling, Olga Grushin

Debcapsfan's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, cityscapes, fairytale retelling, Olga Grushin ·
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The odd feeling when you give a book a one just because you’re not “feeling it” not because it’s a bad book

Spacebot by Mike Twohy

Cityscape: Where Science and Art Meet by April Pulley Sayre

December 23, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I know not every book can be a winner for every reader. However, I like to think that I can find something to like about books that I am not 100% behind. Of course, that is not always the case, but I at least try and go into a book with an open mind. And while I did that with the below picture books, I had to close my mind up to liking them after reading. They did not “do it” for me. And therefore, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: April Pulley Sayre, cityscapes, dogs, friends, Mike Twohy, space animals, space creatures, spaceships

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:429 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: April Pulley Sayre, cityscapes, dogs, friends, Mike Twohy, space animals, space creatures, spaceships ·
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