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Nowhere Nothing and I Don’t Care All At Once

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

January 14, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Potentially unpopular opinion forthcoming: I didn’t think The Atlas Six was all that great. There is little plot; not much happens in detail except time passing and people wondering what is going on with {insert current person and/or situation of concern here}. Not much happens with characters either; what is {person} hiding from the group and/or themselves? What is being hidden from them that might possibly matter? There is also not a lot of world building; this is a world in which there is magic […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: dark academia, library of ALexandria, magic, Olivie Blake, Speculative Fiction, the atlas six

CoffeeShopReader's CBR16 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: dark academia, library of ALexandria, magic, Olivie Blake, Speculative Fiction, the atlas six ·
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Murder near the Nile

DIsappearance of a Scribe by Dana Stabenow

July 24, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 4: New Before I saw Disappearance of a Scribe in the library, I had heard of neither The Eye of Isis series nor its author Dana Stabenow. This is both a new to me series and author; it turns out this is actually book 2 of the series, but it seems pretty stand alone as well. What we’ve got is detective fiction in a historical fiction setting. Due circumstances from the previous book which we mostly don’t need to know, Tetisheri has become the […]

Filed Under: History, Mystery Tagged With: ancient Egypt, cbr14bingo, Cleopatra, Dana Stabenow, detective, Disappearance of a Scribe, Julius Caesar, library of ALexandria, murder mystery, The Eye of Isis

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:56 · Genres: History, Mystery · Tags: ancient Egypt, cbr14bingo, Cleopatra, Dana Stabenow, detective, Disappearance of a Scribe, Julius Caesar, library of ALexandria, murder mystery, The Eye of Isis ·
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