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“It is early fall, the cold is beginning to descend, and in three months everyone in this house will be dead.”

Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito

October 3, 2025 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

It fascinates me, the fact that human have the capacity to mortally wound one another at will, but for the most part, choose not to. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House, the familial home of the Pounds family, fully prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, teach them about the French Revolution, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines dealing with the dreary family, the […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: dark comedy, gothic, horrible people being horrible, Insanity, Virginia Feito

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:130 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror · Tags: dark comedy, gothic, horrible people being horrible, Insanity, Virginia Feito ·
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Cover of Cassandra at the Wedding. Stylised water colour pool with two redhaired girls swimming in opposite directions.

“From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes / I waited ages to see you there”

Cassandra at the Wedding (1962) by Dorothy Baker

May 26, 2024 by drmllz 1 Comment

I was going to make a few brief notes about this and then add this to my review roundup of the Monica Heisey and Curtis Sittenfeld books–and they sort of make a good triptych of more or less complicated women by women writers. But I ended up rambling a bit more about this one, and indeed, Cassandra of Cassandra at the Wedding is not so much complicated, or even messy, but a full on crucible of chaos and doubt and solipsism in human form, who […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1960s, CBR16, coming-of-age, dark comedy, Dorothy Baker, drmllz

drmllz's CBR16 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1960s, CBR16, coming-of-age, dark comedy, Dorothy Baker, drmllz ·
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Sometimes fun, sometimes really dark

Sign Here by Claudia Lux

April 16, 2023 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

From the first couple of chapters of Sign Here, I thought I was in for a fun romp along the lines of a Christopher Moore-esque adventure. The premise certainly lends itself to such silliness: In Hell, a “deals maker” (not an actual demon, but a human who died and ended up there for reasons we’ll eventually learn) named Peyote Trip (everybody in Hell is given ridiculous names) contends with the day-to-day annoyances of existence in the underworld. The Deals Department is on the fifth floor, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, Claudia Lux, dark comedy, KimMiE"

KimMiE"'s CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR15, Claudia Lux, dark comedy, KimMiE" ·
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This has been such a good year for mysteries and caper comedies. Add this one to your list. #CBRBINGO – Pandemic

Finlay Donovan is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1) by Elle Cosimano

July 6, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is another one of those books I knew only after reading the synopsis was going to be A Book For Me. I’ve gotten better and better as I’ve gotten older at picking books I know I will like*. There is a reason most of my reviews are four stars, and it’s not because I go easy on the books, it’s because I know what I will like. Occasionally a stinker slips in and if I give in to curiosity (which happens quite frequently) or […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: cbr13bingo, dark comedy, Elle Cosimano, finlay donovan, finlay donovan is killing it, mystery, narfna, Suspense

narfna's CBR13 Review No:80 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr13bingo, dark comedy, Elle Cosimano, finlay donovan, finlay donovan is killing it, mystery, narfna, Suspense ·
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It’s not easy being a woman in a man’s world

Lady Killer, Volume 1 by Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich

Lady Killer, Volume 2 by Joëlle Jones and Michelle Madsen

January 23, 2021 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

Someone in the CBR community recently mentioned that they are curious about how books come into our lives. I’m not typically a comic book reader (with a few exceptions), but I read this one when it came to me in the mail. More specifically, it came to my husband, a recommendation from one of his coworkers. After he read Lady Killer, he passed it on to me, thinking I might enjoy it The cover is the first thing that intrigued me: a stylish Betty Draper-esque […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: CBR13, dark comedy, Graphic Novel, Jamie S. Rich, joelle jones, Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, Joëlle Jones and Michelle Madsen, KimMiE", Michelle Madsen

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: CBR13, dark comedy, Graphic Novel, Jamie S. Rich, joelle jones, Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, Joëlle Jones and Michelle Madsen, KimMiE", Michelle Madsen ·
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When we came to the end, we loved it

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

February 24, 2019 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I picked up this novel because I enjoyed Joshua Ferris’s To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, though, as my review states, I was at a loss to explain exactly why I liked it. Ferris’s sense of humor appealed to me, though, and I like authors who don’t claim to have all the answers. Then We Came to the End is his first novel, and it is certainly a curiosity. Written in first-person plural point of view, the narrators’ “we” refers to the employees of an […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, comedy, dark comedy, Joshua Ferris, KimMiE"

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:8 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: cbr11, comedy, dark comedy, Joshua Ferris, KimMiE" ·
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