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Incredible world-building does not make up for a lackluster romance

Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson

July 4, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“I think it must’ve been a person who’d wished for love but had never known it who’d created the first clock. Because time is a reminder of how quickly the present passes and how little of the future remains, and no one in love would want to know that.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson, Before We Disappear After narrowly escaping Paris when his employer/adoptive mother is accused of stealing a rival’s illusion, Jack finds himself in Seattle the month before the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition. While there, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: 1900s, abusive relationships, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, con artists, feminist, gaslighting, heist fiction, heist romance, historical fiction, historical fiction plus fantasy, magicians, queer romance, Seattle, Shaun David Hutchinson, Young Adult Romance

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: 1900s, abusive relationships, cbr15bingo, CBR15Passport, con artists, feminist, gaslighting, heist fiction, heist romance, historical fiction, historical fiction plus fantasy, magicians, queer romance, Seattle, Shaun David Hutchinson, Young Adult Romance ·
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“her wounds came from the same source as her power”

The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich

March 26, 2023 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Poetry is a genre that I have a terrible time reviewing but in my personal quest to keep reading the genre – and not give up on it – I find myself trying to about once a year. The Dream of a Common Language is the first one of 2023 for me (I have at least one other poetry collection on my TBR for the year) and while I’ve known about its existence since I read Cheryl Strayed’s Wild back in 2012, it took a […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Adrienne Rich, authors favorite books, feminist, poetry, read harder challenge, The Dream of a Common Language

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: Adrienne Rich, authors favorite books, feminist, poetry, read harder challenge, The Dream of a Common Language ·
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He will not kill me. He does not get to make me a statistic.

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

September 30, 2022 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

You cannot appease someone into loving or respecting you. ― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow I chose this book because I saw it reviewed on CBR14 and damn, did it look interesting. Feminist wrath? Yes, please. To sum it up, Wu Zetian is angry. Not just a little pissed, but vengeful and rightly so. In her world, humanity is in a centuries-long battle with the Hundans, an alien species which invaded their planet. The only way to keep the Hundans from overtaking the entire planet is to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: bodily autonomy, feminist, love triangle, mecha, Xiran Jay Zhao

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: bodily autonomy, feminist, love triangle, mecha, Xiran Jay Zhao ·
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Feral and Ferocious: Two Plays About Girls

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

Dance Nation by Clare Barron

June 10, 2022 by anana 1 Comment

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe In the not-so-distant past, I performed frequently in small professional theatre productions. I’m a slightly-less-than 5’ tall woman, so I was often cast as teen and early-twenties characters, and I always had an eye out for plays that I could potentially pull monologues from for auditions. When The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, a play about a high school girls’ indoor soccer team, started making waves and eventually was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer, it seemed like it could be […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: clare barron, feminist, Play, Sarah DeLappe, Theatre

anana's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: clare barron, feminist, Play, Sarah DeLappe, Theatre ·
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Weirdos, teenagers, degenerates, and women

Ship It by Britta Lundin

March 23, 2022 by carmelpie 2 Comments

“Real writing” is done by serious people, whereas fanfiction is written by weirdos, teenagers, degenerates, and women.” This is a comics convention. When did this industry start caring about what fourteen-year-old girls like? Have you ever found a book that feels as if it was written just for you? From the first two chapters, I was in love with this book. Small town girl – Check. Self-identified outcast – Check. Obsessed over a band or a show or a movie to the point of writing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bisexual character, Britta Lundin, fanfiction, feminist, gay romance, lesbian romance, representation matters, television

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bisexual character, Britta Lundin, fanfiction, feminist, gay romance, lesbian romance, representation matters, television ·
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Brunette w/Sword outstretched, surrounded by the points of other swords

“We are the ones who ensure history exists to be written.”

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

March 12, 2022 by NTE 7 Comments

Have you ever heard the saying (not the Groucho Marx version, but the earnest one) about becoming a member of a club you don’t want to be a member of? It might just be pretty common in the circles I’ve run in, because I’ve mostly heard people talk about it in relation to loss – How you never want to become &/or welcome a new member to the parents of kids who’ve died club, or the widows’ club. Definitely clubs you do not want to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Ableism, cbr14, chronic illness, disability lit, feminist, feminist fantasy, historical fantasy, Lillie Lainoff, Musketteers, One For All, pots, YA

NTE's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Ableism, cbr14, chronic illness, disability lit, feminist, feminist fantasy, historical fantasy, Lillie Lainoff, Musketteers, One For All, pots, YA ·
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