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I’m so glad your first historical romance in several years was actually GOOD, Ms. Long!

Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long

June 11, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

From Goodreads: A mistress. A mountain of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building. Delilah Swanpool, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring,” is a lot more interesting—and perfidious—dead than alive. It’s a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place herself at the mercy of a man. But battle-hardened Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: cbr11, female friendship, historical romance, Julie Anne Long, Lady Derring Takes a Lover, Malin, mystery, Regency, the Palace of Rogues

Malin's CBR11 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: cbr11, female friendship, historical romance, Julie Anne Long, Lady Derring Takes a Lover, Malin, mystery, Regency, the Palace of Rogues ·
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Cover of Heavy Vinyl graphic novel

Heavy Vinyl – not so heavy on plot but still fun!

Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva, Irene Flores

March 21, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Heavy Vinyl appears to have gone through some adjustments over its publication.  Its title was originally Hi-Fi Fight Club and then for some reason they changed the name of the record store it is set in from Vinyl Mayhem to Vinyl Destination. Both changes are better, but many of the web descriptions of the comics have the old names so that’s confusing. Anyhow, spoiler alert: it’s about a fight-club in a record store! Sort of. I haven’t read or seen Fight Club, but this seems […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: 1990's, 90s music, boom comics, carly usdin, comic, comic book, Comics, female friendship, irene flores, Lesbians, nina vakueva, Queer characters, record store, records, vinyl, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: 1990's, 90s music, boom comics, carly usdin, comic, comic book, Comics, female friendship, irene flores, Lesbians, nina vakueva, Queer characters, record store, records, vinyl, YA, Young Adult ·
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Lives up to the hype and then some: Neapolitan Novels

February 2, 2016 by Doraemon 6 Comments

I’m afraid I may never be able enjoy another book. These Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante are pure perfection and set way too high a bar for anything I may read from now on. I’m reviewing them as a set because I gobbled up all four in under three weeks and they are so cohesive. Although the books were released one by one, each September since 2012, it’s easy to imagine Elena Ferrante (a pseudonym) sitting down and writing all 2,000 or so pages in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: AMAZING BOOK, Elena Ferrante, female friendship, historical fiction, Italy, literary fiction

Doraemon's CBR8 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: AMAZING BOOK, Elena Ferrante, female friendship, historical fiction, Italy, literary fiction ·
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A Meh Take on Friendship and Growing Up

September 21, 2015 by ModernLove Leave a Comment

Rufi Thorpe’s debut novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, focuses on the friendship of two girls as it stretches from childhood to adulthood. Lorrie Ann is the golden girl with a perfect family and a perfect home. Mia has an alcoholic mother, two young brothers she both loves and hates and, as the book opens, is 15 and figuring out how to get out of a soccer game so she can get an abortion. As they grow older, one becomes a teacher and researcher, the other […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: female friendship, modernlove, rufi thorpe, the girls from corona del mar

ModernLove's CBR7 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: female friendship, modernlove, rufi thorpe, the girls from corona del mar ·
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