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Twist and Shout

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

November 3, 2024 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Rowan works at a London daycare with the suitably horrible name Little Nippers. Though she likes the children, she dislikes her coworkers and the put-upon, complaining parents that she has to deal with. She lives in a cramped, run-down apartment, which she shares with a coworker who is now on Sabbatical. So when she finds a job ad for a live-in nanny on a country estate in the Scottish Highlands, she does whatever she can to get the job. It doesn’t go well; the book […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Haunted House, horror, Ruth Ware, scotland, The Turn of the Key

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:59 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Haunted House, horror, Ruth Ware, scotland, The Turn of the Key ·
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Early Fall Leftovers

To Start A War: How the Bush Administration Took Us Into Iraq by Robert Draper

The Travelers by Chris Pavone

A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block

Dark Fire by CJ Sansom

The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation by Robert Rand

Stasi Child by David Young

The Cover Wife by Dan Fesperman

So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison

Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

Geiger by Gustaf Skördeman

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block

October 14, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

I’ve read some interesting stuff lately and I wish I had made more time to document it but life gets in the way that life sometimes does. Not all bad, just life. To Start A War**** I had a long thing here about connecting this to the 2024 election but I don’t want to talk current electoral politics on here, at least the specifics of them. A good book if you want to know the intelligence (ha) perspective of how we wound up in a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Religion, Suspense Tagged With: #Henry VIII, #history, 9/11, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Afghanistan, Berlin, Chris Pavone, Christian mysticism, Christianity, CIA, CJ Sansom, Colin Powell, Condolezza Rice, Dan Fesperman, Dark Fire, David Young, East Germany, espionage, Forever Wars, Geiger, George W. Bush, Germany, Ghost Wars, Gustaf Skördeman, Hamburg, historical fiction, horror, Julian of Norwich, Karin Muller, lawrence block, London, Matthew Scudder, Matthew Shardlake, medieval england, mick herron, mystery, New York City, Osama Bin Laden, Rachel Harrison, Religion, Revelations of Divine Love, Robert Draper, Robert Rand, Sara Nowak, Slow Horses, So Thirsty, Stasi, Stasi Child, Steve Coll, Sweden, The Cover Wife, The Devil Knows you're Dead, The Travelers, Thomas Cromwell, To Start a war, Tudor England, vampires, War in Iraq

Jake's CBR16 Review No:168 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Religion, Suspense · Tags: #Henry VIII, #history, 9/11, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Afghanistan, Berlin, Chris Pavone, Christian mysticism, Christianity, CIA, CJ Sansom, Colin Powell, Condolezza Rice, Dan Fesperman, Dark Fire, David Young, East Germany, espionage, Forever Wars, Geiger, George W. Bush, Germany, Ghost Wars, Gustaf Skördeman, Hamburg, historical fiction, horror, Julian of Norwich, Karin Muller, lawrence block, London, Matthew Scudder, Matthew Shardlake, medieval england, mick herron, mystery, New York City, Osama Bin Laden, Rachel Harrison, Religion, Revelations of Divine Love, Robert Draper, Robert Rand, Sara Nowak, Slow Horses, So Thirsty, Stasi, Stasi Child, Steve Coll, Sweden, The Cover Wife, The Devil Knows you're Dead, The Travelers, Thomas Cromwell, To Start a war, Tudor England, vampires, War in Iraq ·
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Clown Vs Teenagers

There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer

October 4, 2024 by dreadpiratekel Leave a Comment

What happens when an aspiring teenage movie critic hosts a Halloween party at her isolated mansion home, invites her friends (and some quasi-friends who are teenage influencers), and sets up a fun “game” involving a creepy clown, but the clown turns out to be like – psychotic?  Well, you get There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer, where our heroine Noelle gets to prove she has the chops to be a Final Girl, and show there is no way she’d die first. This […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Tagged With: evil clown, horror, Lisa Springer, There's No Way I'd Die First, young adult fiction

dreadpiratekel's CBR16 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Young Adult · Tags: evil clown, horror, Lisa Springer, There's No Way I'd Die First, young adult fiction ·
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When Fiction Gets A Little Too Real

Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry

September 26, 2024 by dreadpiratekel Leave a Comment

Good Girls Don’t Die follows three characters—Celia, Allie, and Maggie—who find themselves in strange situations that seem to be the sort of scenarios you would find in novels that the characters happen to be fans of.  Some background around what the characters read is provided at the start of each chapter, via message board-looking posts where book genres are discussed.  The book is split into four parts, with the first three sections following one of the women as she tries to figure out what is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: #mystery, Christina Henry, Fiction, Good Girls Don't Die, horror, three genres in one, what is going on?

dreadpiratekel's CBR16 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: #mystery, Christina Henry, Fiction, Good Girls Don't Die, horror, three genres in one, what is going on? ·
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“Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name…”

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

September 22, 2024 by Malin 1 Comment

3.5 stars Nowhere Books Bingo: Banned books (Wasn’t published until 27 years after Bulgakov’s death, and only then in a censored version. ) CBR16 Bingo: Cult (cult classic, and there’s the whole Devil and his entourage as a central plot point – that’s pretty cultish, right?) I can’t remember exactly how long The Master and Margarita has been on my TBR list, but it’s certainly more than twenty years. A quick glance on Goodreads shows me that 15 of my friends have rated it four […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, 20th Century, Allegorical, banned books, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Communism, cult, cult classic, historical fiction, horror, literary classic, Malin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nowhere Book Bingo, political satire, The Master and Margarita, the soviet union

Malin's CBR16 Review No:57 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, 20th Century, Allegorical, banned books, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Communism, cult, cult classic, historical fiction, horror, literary classic, Malin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nowhere Book Bingo, political satire, The Master and Margarita, the soviet union ·
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Stephen King’s sprawling historical time-travel epic

11/22/63 by Stephen King

September 8, 2024 by HC 1 Comment

At work I have a Book Friend who reads mostly horror. He gives me horror recommendations, and I give him sci-fi recommendations, and we both try to enjoy each other’s genre of choice, to varying success. At the other’s insistence, we have both read genre staples without being convinced of their universal relevance (though I have more right to feel aggrieved about this arrangement because Slaughterhouse Five was like 250 pages and It was fucking 1,200 pages, Dorian). It was not for me. I finished It, because I’m a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: alternate history, genre mashup, horror, sci-fi, Should you read it?, Stephen King, time travel

HC's CBR16 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: alternate history, genre mashup, horror, sci-fi, Should you read it?, Stephen King, time travel ·
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