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Beautiful, harrowing and oh so sad

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

July 10, 2024 by Malin 2 Comments

CBR16 Bingo: Liberate (our protagonists are fighting in World War I to keep the world safe from the Germans) Official plot summary, because I finished this book in early April: It’s 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: Alice Winn, CBR16, cbr16bingo, debut novel, friendship, historical fiction, In Memoriam, LGBTQIA, liberate, Malin, ptsd, romantic, tragedy, trauma, war, World War I

Malin's CBR16 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: Alice Winn, CBR16, cbr16bingo, debut novel, friendship, historical fiction, In Memoriam, LGBTQIA, liberate, Malin, ptsd, romantic, tragedy, trauma, war, World War I ·
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So let them burn cover

Gotta let it burn

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

February 14, 2024 by Jen K 1 Comment

With Cait Corrain back in the news, figured it was really time for me to write this review already! For those less terminally online, our story didn’t start in December but that is when it become a scandal and Booktwitter found out that a debut author scheduled for a 2024 release with some decent positive buzz had been review bombing fellow 2024 YA debuts with fake Goodreads accounts while giving her own book positive reviews (which is one of the reasons it caught the attention […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Booktwitter, debut novel, dragons, Goodreads scandal, Kamilah Cole

Jen K's CBR16 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Booktwitter, debut novel, dragons, Goodreads scandal, Kamilah Cole ·
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I Can Always Rely on Stashed Romance Novels

The Write Escape by Charish Reid

January 10, 2023 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

I read my first Charish Reid novel back in 2020 right before COVID shut everything down for a while. Hearts on Hold has been a book I think of often. In 2021 I read (Trust) Falling for You, but somehow managed to skip Reid in my 2022 reading excursions. Since the books I brought with me for holiday travel were a bit hit and miss (Make You Mine This Christmas and The Holiday Trap were good, the other two books I had with me probably […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Charish Reid, debut novel, Ireland, The Write Escape, vacation romance, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Charish Reid, debut novel, Ireland, The Write Escape, vacation romance, we need diverse books ·
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A Flicker in the Dark book cover

I do not understand why people like this.

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

December 28, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. I am sad to say this will not be a positive review. Firstly, I want to make it clear that the two stars here is specifically for the audio version. I think if I had read the hard copy I would have rounded up to three stars (me eleven months later: or maybe not). I found the narrator to have an exceptionally irritating way of speaking that emphasized […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: a flicker in the dark, ARCs, audiobooks, debut novel, narfna, Stacy willingham, thriller

narfna's CBR14 Review No:236 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: a flicker in the dark, ARCs, audiobooks, debut novel, narfna, Stacy willingham, thriller ·
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“Because love is real, and it happens everywhere. It even happens here.”

For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

April 11, 2022 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

For the Love of April French is an immensely readable book with a strong authorial voice that is a wonderful fluffy romance playing in the D/s kink realm. It’s the story of April and Dennis who have a temporary no-strings sex agreement, but Dennis is secretly trying to woo April, which is a great trope to build an emotions-first BDSM romance around. Dennis and April are wonderfully flawed and human characters. Aimes writes with her characters humanities front and center. April and Dennis can be […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: bdsm romance, debut novel, For the Love of April French, kink, Penny Aimes, queer romance, trans woman lead

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:31 · Genres: Romance · Tags: bdsm romance, debut novel, For the Love of April French, kink, Penny Aimes, queer romance, trans woman lead ·
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“I am both ever evolving and ever decaying.” or another book in need of a CW

Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn

February 19, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Something is going on with my reading this year, I seem to be swinging back and forth between 5-star books and 2-star ones, which means I should have anticipated trouble with Charm and Strange based purely on it falling in my reading order behind Boyfriend Material. This one didn’t make me angry as some of my other two star reads, Always, in December and Seduction, but it flirted with the line. This 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris Award is designed to be read […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: Charm and Strange, debut novel, needed a CW, read harder challenge, Stephanie Kuehn

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Young Adult · Tags: Charm and Strange, debut novel, needed a CW, read harder challenge, Stephanie Kuehn ·
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