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Still hooked on this series

The Memory of Babel: The Mirror Visitor Book 3 by Christelle Dabos

September 16, 2022 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr14bingo Hot the action moves from the icy land called the Pole to a hot and lush place called Babel The plot definitely thickens in this third installment of the four part Mirror Visitor series. The action moves into two different areas as Ophelia and Thorn pursue the one called “God,” aka “Milliface,” a malevolent shapeshifter that tries to manipulate all of the arks in order to assert total domination over the world. As with the previous novels, Dabos gives readers plenty of edge-of-your-seat action […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Christelle Dabos, ElCicco, Fiction, hot, The Memory of Babel, The Mirror Visitor Book 3, YA

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Christelle Dabos, ElCicco, Fiction, hot, The Memory of Babel, The Mirror Visitor Book 3, YA ·
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A little mystery and a lot of court intrigue

The Missing of Clairedelune: The Mirror Visitor Book 2 by Christelle Dabos

September 13, 2022 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr14bingo Elephant (memory) the recovery of one character’s memories is key to the plot Book two of Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor series continues to enthrall. Main character Ophelia, who has the gifts of being able to travel through mirrors and “read” the history of objects in her hands, and her betrothed Thorn, the prickly Treasurer of the remote ark known as The Pole, are fast approaching their wedding day and seem no closer to developing a meaningful bond to each other. Meanwhile, in the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Christelle Dabos, ElCicco, elephant, Fiction, The Mirror Visitor Book 2, The Missing of Clairedelune, YA

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Christelle Dabos, ElCicco, elephant, Fiction, The Mirror Visitor Book 2, The Missing of Clairedelune, YA ·
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A Librarian Hero Story Begins!

A Winter’s Promise: The Mirror Visitor Book 1 by Christelle Dabos

September 8, 2022 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr14bingo Cold A Winter’s Promise is the first book in a YA quartet by French author Christelle Dabos. It’s 490 pages long, and I tore through it within a few days. Book #2 is already queued up and I’m hoping that the storytelling continues to keep me hooked in. Dabos has created a steampunk world that has been divided not just politically and culturally, but also physically due to a “rupture.” Long in the past, a formerly unified planet broke up into different planets or […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, A Winter's Promise, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Christelle Dabos, ElCicco, Fiction, the mirror visitor, YA

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, A Winter's Promise, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Christelle Dabos, ElCicco, Fiction, the mirror visitor, YA ·
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A trauma victim finds her strength

Medusa by Jessie Burton

September 3, 2022 by ElCicco 1 Comment

Cbr14bingo Shadow Medusa lives in a cave, hides in the shadows from Perseus and is a shadow of herself because of what happened to her. This book would fit for the snake or monster squares as well. This YA novel (for 9th grade and older) with beautiful illustrations by Olivia Lomenech Gill, reimagines the myth of Medusa, a woman with snakes for hair whose glance could turn men to stone. In the original myth, Poseidon raped Medusa in Athena’s temple, causing Athena to punish Medusa […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Jessie Burton, Medusa, Olivia Lomenech Gill, shadow

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Jessie Burton, Medusa, Olivia Lomenech Gill, shadow ·
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Gateway to the Russian Novel

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

September 1, 2022 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr14bingo New This is a new translation by Nicolas Paternak Slater and Maya Slater, and it is a novel about the clash of old and new ideas If you have been meaning to read one of the great Russian novels but are put off by the length of those written by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I’d like to suggest that you take a look at the works of Ivan Turgenev. A contemporary of those two illustrious writers and brilliant in his own right, Turgenev covers similar […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fathers and Children, Fiction, Ivan Turgenev, new

Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fathers and Children, Fiction, Ivan Turgenev, new ·
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Race/Horse

Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

August 24, 2022 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr14bingo Time, Bingo #2 (down) This novel is set in three distinct time periods linked by a Civil War era thoroughbred named Lexington As far as I’m concerned Geraldine Brooks is one of the best historical fiction writers out there. I have read all of her novels. March won the Pulitzer Prize. Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonder: A Novel of the Plague were all outstanding. I felt that The Secret Chord, her previous novel, was not quite up to snuff, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Geraldine Brooks, historical fiction, horse, Time

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Geraldine Brooks, historical fiction, horse, Time ·
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