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I’d rather spend time with David Tennant’s Crowley

The Night Jar by Deborah Hewitt

June 27, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I had a hard time getting through The Nightjar. I liked the premise, although it sounded a little like the His Dark Materials trilogy, I liked the setting, although it’s kind of like Neverwhere, and I liked some of the characters, although I never took a liking to either of the two leads. I really wanted to like this, and there were a lot of times where I almost did. The premise is that there is an alternate world attached to our own where people […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, Alternate World, birds, crowley, Deborah Hewitt, portal fantasy, souls, The Night Jar

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:55 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, Alternate World, birds, crowley, Deborah Hewitt, portal fantasy, souls, The Night Jar ·
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Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

December 7, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion Tagged With: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion · Tags: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army ·
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