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World’s Most Dangerous Flight School

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

March 19, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader 4 Comments

I know people who read the Fourth Wing and raved about it; I picked it up in a bookstore, saw that it used first-person present-tense narration, and put it back immediately. I saw it at the library, and decided to give it another chance. I struggled to get into it, and then I saw a social media post of a bookstore display with the signed “worst books ever”; the two things on that table I have read I kind of believe deserve to be there. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: adventure, dragons, Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, school story

CoffeeShopReader's CBR16 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: adventure, dragons, Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, school story ·
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That’ll teach her to steal the moon

Fae and the Moon by Franco Aureliani, Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun

March 6, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

What is the point of reading? For fun? To learn? Or to pass the time? Maybe all those layers and more. And Fae and the Moon has a few layers too. Granted, it might not be a seven-layer cake, but it has two or three.  Franco Aureliani, Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun came together to make a cute story about the idea of female empowerment, friendship, family and self understanding. The illustrations are simple, but cute and even the scary parts are lovely in the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun, coming-of-age, dragons, family, Franco Aureliani, Franco Aureliani, Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun, magic, moon, mothers, mythical creatures, Self-realization

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:80 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun, coming-of-age, dragons, family, Franco Aureliani, Franco Aureliani, Catherine Satrun and Sarah Starun, magic, moon, mothers, mythical creatures, Self-realization ·
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Birthday Cupcakes Gone Bad!

Forsynthia V01: Rise of the Cupcakes   by Rachel DiNunzio

March 5, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Working in an independent bookstore has a lot of perks. One is that you get emails telling you BOOK X is coming out! Request a reader’s copy today! And when I got an email telling me that Forsynthia V01: Rise of the Cupcakes  by Rachel DiNunzio was available I emailed the rep and asked if they had a finished copy. And they happily sent me one. Therefore, I read via a physical reader’s copy and glad I did. An online version would not have had […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, cupcakes, dragons, early reader, family, Rachel DiNunzio, science, siblings, Sisters, super agents/spies

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:77 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, cupcakes, dragons, early reader, family, Rachel DiNunzio, science, siblings, Sisters, super agents/spies ·
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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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Lady Green Snake and the Golden One

Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim

January 6, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Vanna and Channi are sisters, but they couldn’t be more different – while Vanna is blessed with a strange glowing beauty, Channi has been cursed with the face of a snake and poisonous blood. As Vanna’s seventeenth birthday approaches, Channi grows desperate to prevent her promised death at the hands of the demon witch Angma. I did not realize until about halfway through this book that it is a prequel to Lim’s Six Crimson Cranes duology, an East Asian-influenced retelling of the Six Swans that’s […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, ARC, Asian fantasy, dragons, Elizabeth Lim, mythology, NetGalley, Romance

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, ARC, Asian fantasy, dragons, Elizabeth Lim, mythology, NetGalley, Romance ·
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The Dragon, the Princess and the Assassin

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

December 27, 2023 by Malin 4 Comments

Disclaimer! This was an ARC from Netgalley (but I have also paid to buy the book myself, after reading it). My opinions are my own. Every one hundred years, the king of the Sheltered Lands has to send one heir to serve as consort to the ancient dragon god who acts as its protector and guardian. The previous consort went mad with fear not long after bonding with the Dragon, and Ash, the Dragon, worries that history will repeat itself. Ash has lived for over […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: assassins, Bound to Fire and Steel, CBR15, Consort of Fire, curse, dragons, erotica, historical fantasy, kit rocha, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, NetGalley, shapeshifters

Malin's CBR15 Review No:81 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: assassins, Bound to Fire and Steel, CBR15, Consort of Fire, curse, dragons, erotica, historical fantasy, kit rocha, LGBTQIA, magic, Malin, NetGalley, shapeshifters ·
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