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Don’t get too excited about the psychic cats

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

May 24, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

From the official plot summary: Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom.But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The tagline for this book is “Kidnappers. Alien Emperors. Psychic cats. And she’s out of coffee.” Two of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, adventure, Aliens, BIPOC, CBR16, Chilling Effect, kidnapping, Malin, Outland book club, smuggling, space opera, Valerie Valdes

Malin's CBR16 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, adventure, Aliens, BIPOC, CBR16, Chilling Effect, kidnapping, Malin, Outland book club, smuggling, space opera, Valerie Valdes ·
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A parent’s worst nightmare

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

April 11, 2024 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This was my first “sitting and waiting for my allergy shot” book of the year. I go every Thursday (ish) at lunch time, and I have to get my allergy shot and sit there for 30 minutes to make sure I don’t have a bad reaction. I started last year and would usually play on my phone while I waited, but this year I decided to use my time wisely and read an actual physical book. So needless to say it took a while to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: kidnapping, Shari Lapena

kfishgirl's CBR16 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: kidnapping, Shari Lapena ·
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Starting off my CBR (in April!) with a trio of crappily edited books

Stolen in a Small Town by Marie Wilkens

The Willow Springs Kidnappings by Roger Hayden

The Cabin by Robert J. Walker

April 5, 2024 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Welcome to my first post for CBR 16. I know it’s April. I’ve been a CBR posting slacker. I’ve been reading like a maniac though! I’ve read 33 books this year, so I figured it was about time I started posting about them!! Let’s get started… I think I started this trio of books at the end of 2023, but didn’t actually finish the first one until January of 2024, so it counts! They came as one book on my Kindle, but they were 3 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: kidnapping, Marie Wilkens, Robert J. Walker, Roger Hayden

kfishgirl's CBR16 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: kidnapping, Marie Wilkens, Robert J. Walker, Roger Hayden ·
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To The Moon

Love You More by Lisa Gardner

January 31, 2024 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Here’s something funny: as evidenced by a thousand hammy postcards and Live Laugh Love-adjacent signs, Love you to the moon and back is a term of endearment in English. In Dutch, however, if you want to tell someone to fuck off, you tell them to walk to the moon. I’m not sure what that says about us as a people, but I was reminded of the duality by Gardner’s Love You More. Not because it involves either linguistics of astronomy, but because there’s an inherent […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Boston, crime fiction, D.D. Warren, kidnapping, Lisa Gardner, Love You More, Tessa Leoni

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Boston, crime fiction, D.D. Warren, kidnapping, Lisa Gardner, Love You More, Tessa Leoni ·
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Max could practically hear Brand bark in his ear, “Now is when you keep your mouth shut and let the stupid bad guy explain every stupid element of their stupid life-plan-slash-life-story.”

The Eidolon: Magnus Academy #1 by K.D. Edwards

January 2, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“Anna counted five separate restaurants owned by this Howard Johnson. They looked very old – something from the years before she was born. Rune would probably know. He was always talking about the 1980s and 1990s as if they were the first decades of human existence.” ― K.D. Edwards, The Eidolon “He’s alive!” Quinn cried. “Right? Max right? Right?” Now he turned, desperate. “He’s alive and well and burning a path toward you,” Max whispered. He turned his gaze on Cornelius. Sometimes there were no […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: found family, K.D. Edwards, kidnapping, queer authors, Urban Fantasy

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: found family, K.D. Edwards, kidnapping, queer authors, Urban Fantasy ·
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Let’s keep all the Holmes’ together

Sherlock Holmes #3 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Enola Holmes #9 Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer

Sherlock Holmes #6 The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

October 27, 2023 by kfishgirl 1 Comment

So I got into Sherlock Holmes via his sister Enola. I read all of the Enola Holmes books when my niece wanted to watch the movies on Netflix a bit ago. I love her as a character, and Sherlock is in most of her books, so I figured I’d check him out. I must say I like Enola’s Sherlock better than the original Sherlock. He’s a bit prickly and I think has some untreated mental disorders. This book is a collection of short stories, which […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, enola holmes, kidnapping, mystery, Nancy springer, rabies, Sherlock Holmes

kfishgirl's CBR15 Review No:40 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, enola holmes, kidnapping, mystery, Nancy springer, rabies, Sherlock Holmes ·
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