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Murder Triad? Yes, Please

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

July 22, 2024 by jessisreading 4 Comments

I don’t remember how I ended up with a copy of Consort of Fire. I might have received a copy directly from the publisher (Montlake). I might have seen it in a bookstore. I might have bought it on Amazon. I honestly have no idea, because I feel like I’ve had it for a million years. So when my podcast co-host mentioned that we should read a romantasy book for our next When In Romance book club, my eye was immediately drawn to Consort of Fire on my […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, fantasy romance, kit rocha, polyamorous, queer, romantasy, sexy times

jessisreading's CBR16 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, fantasy romance, kit rocha, polyamorous, queer, romantasy, sexy times ·
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Mythic Alphabet Murders and Staying Normal

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix

July 13, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 2: Part 2 I’m going a tad bit literal here as The Sinister Booksellers of Bath is a sequel. Once again, it’s in 1980s London, Bath, and nearby areas, with some excursions into locations/times folkloric or supernatural. Susan, Merlin, Vivien, and the rest of the booksellers and associates are all back as well. There are essentially two mysteries on hand, both involving Susan: there’s the disappearances and murders in a realm out of time and sort of space, and then there’s Susan’s growing sense […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr16bingo, folklore, garth nix, The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, YA

CoffeeShopReader's CBR16 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, cbr16bingo, folklore, garth nix, The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, YA ·
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MysterFantsyMance

The Fox Wife: A Novel by Yangsze Choo

July 5, 2024 by ElCicco 3 Comments

Cbr16bingo Smash mystery/fantasy/romance = MysterFantsyMance The Fox Wife is a beautiful novel that combines mystery, fantasy and romance, and even some history. Set in China and Japan in the early 20th century, its main characters deal with the pangs of first love, lost love, obsessive love, and the loss of children against a backdrop of revolution and a world in the grip of major change. Author Yangsze Choo writes at the end of this story about her personal interest in the fox legends of China […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR16, cbr16bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, mystery, Romance, Smash, The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo

ElCicco's CBR16 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, CBR16, cbr16bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, mystery, Romance, Smash, The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo ·
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June 2024 Leftovers

The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins

Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City by Adam J. Criblez

Out On The Cutting Edge by Lawrence Block

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nevada by Imogene Binnie

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford Dictionary by Simon Winchester

Exalted by Anna Dorn

July 5, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Happy Pride to all who celebrate! The First Quarry**** I was disappointed in the quality of the last couple of Quarry novels so I wasn’t expecting much…but this was good. One of his best plots and I really enjoyed it. Could’ve done without the racism. Big believer that you can show the casual racism of the past (1970s) without wallowing in it and the book does that. Otherwise, it’s good. Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City**** Stretching a four star […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Sports, Suspense Tagged With: #fantasy, #history, Adam J. Criblez, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anna Dorn, astrology, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, crime, dictionary, Exalted, grief, hip-hop, hitman, Imogene Binnie, Kings of the Garden, lawrence block, lewis carroll, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Matthew Scudder, Max Allan Collins, mystery, NBA, Nevada, New York City, New York Knicks, Notes on Grief, Out On the Cutting Edge, Quarry, rap, Simon Winchester, The First Quarry, The Professor and the Madman, trans, true crime

Jake's CBR16 Review No:99 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Sports, Suspense · Tags: #fantasy, #history, Adam J. Criblez, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Anna Dorn, astrology, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, crime, dictionary, Exalted, grief, hip-hop, hitman, Imogene Binnie, Kings of the Garden, lawrence block, lewis carroll, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Matthew Scudder, Max Allan Collins, mystery, NBA, Nevada, New York City, New York Knicks, Notes on Grief, Out On the Cutting Edge, Quarry, rap, Simon Winchester, The First Quarry, The Professor and the Madman, trans, true crime ·
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“When does who you’re pretending to be stop being a pretense and turn into who you really are?”

Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

July 5, 2024 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr16bingo Fiasco A guy wakes up, injured, on the floor of an evil looking castle room. Who did this to him? What evil force has been at work?? Who is responsible for the tacky decor??? Though his memories are mostly gone, he realizes he did it. He is a dark wizard and he somehow is responsible for all of it. It’s a dreadful conclusion to reach, and Gav (aka the Dread Lord Gavrax), looking around at his garishly evil castle and the way his goblin […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Caitlin Rozakis, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Dreadful, ElCicco, fiasco, Fiction

ElCicco's CBR16 Review No:21 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Caitlin Rozakis, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Dreadful, ElCicco, fiasco, Fiction ·
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It took eleven volumes but there’s some actual character development. Now if only it went somewhere.

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! v.11 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

June 30, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom is largely cozy isekai fantasy. Protagonist, a geeky gamer high schooler, dies/wakes up in the body of the antagonist of her favorite romance video game, and she has to avoid the bad outcomes for herself. Which she does mostly by being nice to everyone, and also clueless about the romance part. As in, noticing who is actually in love with whom. This almost active refusal to see what’s in front of her get annoying, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, isekai, light novel, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Roads Lead to Doom!, Nami Hidaka, Romance, Satorou Yamaguchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

CoffeeShopReader's CBR16 Review No:38 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, isekai, light novel, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Roads Lead to Doom!, Nami Hidaka, Romance, Satorou Yamaguchi, Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka ·
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