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Welcome back to the awesomeness of Mr. Gaiman

December 16, 2017 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

At some point in the past year or so, I somehow got the idea that I didn’t especially like Neil Gaiman books; I blame a probably-too-fast re-reading of American Gods. Then I picked up Neverwhere off my TBR shelf (and it is a full shelf and a half right now), and I was reminded, oh, yeah, that’s why… Neverwhere is basically Gaiman’s breakout hit, the novelization of a tv show that Gaiman says he’d always kind of intended to make into a novel, even as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: fantasy, Neil Gaiman, neverwhere, twisted fairy tale

CoffeeShopReader's CBR9 Review No:56 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: fantasy, Neil Gaiman, neverwhere, twisted fairy tale ·
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Wait, what do you mean I have to wait for the next one?!?

December 10, 2017 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

The third book in the series, we get more information and insight from our semi-adventurers, as well as from some new characters.  Newly added to our cast is Elora, an experienced Rogue, along with a priest of Grumble and Silas, a clerk in the Hall of Adventurers.   While the majority of the story stays with our main group, we do see what is going on with the others as well.   There are some heavy themes in this story, and some heavy consequences.  We delve […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: awesome, Drew Hayes, fantasy

crystalclear's CBR9 Review No:27 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: awesome, Drew Hayes, fantasy ·
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The review I forgot to write

December 10, 2017 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

I feel kind of bad that I’m not doing justice to this book in this review, purely because I read it in July and I’m trying to write the review in December.  I wrote the reviews of the first and third books close to when I finished them, but this one slipped by. I think I was in a rush to get to the next one, or something.  Oops. After escaping their home kingdom, our group of Adventurers moves on in search of, well, something. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: awesome, Drew Hayes, fantasy

crystalclear's CBR9 Review No:26 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: awesome, Drew Hayes, fantasy ·
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This one was my gateway drug

December 10, 2017 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

This was the first Drew Hayes book I read (well, listened to) and it’s the one that got me hooked.  Honestly, going in I didn’t have very high expectations.  I just scrolled through my library options and tried to pick something that wouldn’t waste my time, and even if it did, I could move on.  I was pleasantly surprised!  I don’t play D&D (Dungeons & Dragons for the less nerdy), but I do have passing knowledge of some of the elements.  Not having that base […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: awesome, Drew Hayes, fantasy

crystalclear's CBR9 Review No:25 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: awesome, Drew Hayes, fantasy ·
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Accio Cannonball

December 7, 2017 by Ellesfena 14 Comments

Cannonball! Reading the Harry Potter series this time felt different than past times. I’m several years older than I was last time I read them, and this time I was reading them not just for fun, but to review for CBR (it makes a difference, I’ve found. . .). It’s also a time in American history when reading about the fight against the Death Eaters and their focus on purebloods is a little more uncomfortable than it has been in the past (I am not […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: fantasy, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling, JK Rowling

Ellesfena's CBR9 Review No:57 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: fantasy, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling, JK Rowling ·
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Class-war evil supernatural black fungus

December 7, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

I raced through Rivers of London: Black Mould when I brought it home from the library (pro tip: if a book is brand new and it’s not on the shelves but it’s definitely in the catalog, ask your librarian to check the back room! maybe it hasn’t even been shelved yet!), but honestly it didn’t make much more of an impact on me other than to keep moving the Rivers of London universe forward for me. Not that that isn’t of value, because of course […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, Cartmel, cbr9, fantasy, Fiction, ghosts, Graphic Novel, haunted cars, London, magic, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, Rivers of London, sahra guleed, the nightengale, thomas nightengale, Urban Fantasy

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, Cartmel, cbr9, fantasy, Fiction, ghosts, Graphic Novel, haunted cars, London, magic, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, Rivers of London, sahra guleed, the nightengale, thomas nightengale, Urban Fantasy ·
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