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“Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best stories are.”

September 4, 2017 by Malin 3 Comments

From Goodreads: The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around – and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr9, Dreams, fantasy, Laini Taylor, magic, Malin, strange the dreamer, Young Adult

Malin's CBR9 Review No:77 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: cbr9, Dreams, fantasy, Laini Taylor, magic, Malin, strange the dreamer, Young Adult ·
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

August 31, 2017 by narfna 4 Comments

I’ve been dreading writing this review. I just don’t know what to say about this book, because I don’t really know how I feel about it, still, and it’s been months since I finished it. Ultimately, I just don’t think this was the book for me, but that kind of thing doesn’t fill up a review space. It’s also not helpful to anyone reading this review, because only people who pay extremely close attention to my reading habits might have a clue what a “for me” […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: all the birds in the sky, charlie jane anders, fantasy, narfna, sci-fi

narfna's CBR9 Review No:64 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: all the birds in the sky, charlie jane anders, fantasy, narfna, sci-fi ·
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I Didn’t Want This Book to End

August 30, 2017 by lumenatrix 1 Comment

  I loved this book so very much. It was the warm, cozy blanket I needed in my life right now. I picked this up thanks to Jenny S’s review from a few weeks ago and I’m so glad I did. “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fairy Tail, fantasy, Fiction, Naomi novik, uprooted

lumenatrix's CBR9 Review No:10 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Fairy Tail, fantasy, Fiction, Naomi novik, uprooted ·
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Into the Ghostlands

August 30, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

The rhythm of life in Fair Hollow is beginning to feel a little closer to ordinary. But Finn knows better than to be lulled by this comfortable sense of normalcy. It’s just the calm before the storm. For soon, a chance encounter outside the magical Brambleberry Books will lead her down a rabbit hole, into a fairy world of secrets and legacies . . . straight towards the shocking truth about her sister’s death. This is book two in the Night and Nothing trilogy, which […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr9, fantasy, Katherine Harbour, Night and Nothing book 2, Young Adult

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:69 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr9, fantasy, Katherine Harbour, Night and Nothing book 2, Young Adult ·
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I liked this one???

August 29, 2017 by narfna Leave a Comment

Honestly, I did not expect to like this book. It’s only logical. I assumed that I would have the same reaction to it that I had for the first three books in the series, which was basically to be entertained, but also half the time I’m rolling my eyes at the predictable plot twists, the shallow characters, the tell-not-show and idiom-filled writing (a symptom of weak worldbuilding). I just didn’t find any of it particularly compelling, especially Celaena, the central character. I found her to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: fantasy, heir of fire, narfna, sarah j maas, Throne of Glass, Young Adult

narfna's CBR9 Review No:63 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: fantasy, heir of fire, narfna, sarah j maas, Throne of Glass, Young Adult ·
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Polka will never die.

August 29, 2017 by narfna 5 Comments

So I never actually wrote a real review of this book the first time I read it. It was the end of the year, and I just half-assed something over on Goodreads, and didn’t even post anything at all on the CBR blog (it was my first Cannonball, I believe, CBR4). I just wanted to read it and enjoy it and then be done with it. But seeing as how this is the first truly wonderful book in the series (and don’t even argue with me about […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: a wizard did it, dead beat, fantasy, Jim Butcher, narfna, paranormal, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR9 Review No:61 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: a wizard did it, dead beat, fantasy, Jim Butcher, narfna, paranormal, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy ·
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