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A strange little fantasy. I expected nothing less from this author.

City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

May 21, 2024 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is a tough book to sink your teeth into. It’s slow to start, and slow to catch your emotions (if it ever catches them all), but still, for the right reader this book could work very well. I always appreciate a well-executed attempt at a unique structure, and we have that here in abundance. Up front, though, the reason this is getting 3.5 stars is that though there were bits that caught my imagination in the first half of the book, it didn’t really […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, Adrian Tchaikovsky, audiobooks, City of Last Chances, high fantasy, mosaic novel, narfna, The Tyrant Philosophers, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR16 Review No:22 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, Adrian Tchaikovsky, audiobooks, City of Last Chances, high fantasy, mosaic novel, narfna, The Tyrant Philosophers, Urban Fantasy ·
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Two five stars in a row from me for this series. I love it so much!

The Marquis Who Mustn't (Wedgeford Trials, #2) by Courtney Milan

April 21, 2024 by narfna 5 Comments

As often happens with books that I five-star love and gobble up in a mindless pleasure fest of reading indulgently, I am finding it hard to have anything to say beyond BOOK GOOD READ NOW. But let’s try anyway. This is the second book in Courtney Milan’s Wedgeford Trials series, about a small town in Victorian England that is full of mostly Chinese emigrants (as always, the author’s notes are a must-read for historical context) but other members of the Asian diaspora as well. The […]

Filed Under: Featured, Romance Tagged With: AAPI, asian diaspora, Asian Heritage, Courtney Milan, historical romance, m/f, narfna, Romance, The Marquis Who Mustn't, Wedgeford Trials

narfna's CBR16 Review No:13 · Genres: Featured, Romance · Tags: AAPI, asian diaspora, Asian Heritage, Courtney Milan, historical romance, m/f, narfna, Romance, The Marquis Who Mustn't, Wedgeford Trials ·
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Ruh roh.

The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power, #1) by V.E. Schwab

April 18, 2024 by narfna Leave a Comment

I think I may have fallen out of love with V.E. Schwab. I actually DNFed my re-read of the last book in the original Shades of Magic trilogy (!) because I was so uninterested (it was my least favorite the first time through, too). I started this book back in jAnUaRy. JANUARY. And I have only now finished it. And it was fine! While I was reading it I was having a good time, but I never actually felt like picking it back up. I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, adventure, Elemental Magic, LGBTQIA, narfna, parallel universes, shades of magic, The Fragile Threads of Power, Threads of Power, v.e. schwab

narfna's CBR16 Review No:21 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, adventure, Elemental Magic, LGBTQIA, narfna, parallel universes, shades of magic, The Fragile Threads of Power, Threads of Power, v.e. schwab ·
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Yes, let the Taylor Swift-lyric title and the beautiful cover lure you in.

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1) by Emma R. Alban

March 25, 2024 by narfna 8 Comments

[finishes book] [three and a half weeks later] I don’t know why I’m having such a mental block about writing this review, so I’m just going to go and see what happens. [two days later] This is an adult queer Regency romance featuring two young women as the protagonists, and it’s the first sapphic historical I think that I have really loved*. There still isn’t that much f/f historical romance or ones involving nb folks to begin with, but the ones I’ve read have not […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Featured, Romance Tagged With: audiobooks, Emma R. Alban, f/f, historical romance, LGBTQIA, Mischief & Matchmaking, narfna, queer romance, Romance

narfna's CBR16 Review No:14 · Genres: Audiobooks, Featured, Romance · Tags: audiobooks, Emma R. Alban, f/f, historical romance, LGBTQIA, Mischief & Matchmaking, narfna, queer romance, Romance ·
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Like Sylvia Plath and the fig tree, basically.

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

March 22, 2024 by narfna Leave a Comment

My initial thoughts upon finishing this were mostly that it was a perfectly fine book but that it wouldn’t stick with me, and that has indeed turned out to be the case. It’s been a month since I’ve finished it, and it’s already almost fallen out of my head completely. But it was a short, entertaining read, so if that’s something you’re looking for, and you can stand some blatant emotional manipulation, this might be the book for you! What the blurb doesn’t tell you […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Depression, Fiction, Matt Haig, narfna, speculative, The Midnight Library, the multiverse

narfna's CBR16 Review No:20 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: Depression, Fiction, Matt Haig, narfna, speculative, The Midnight Library, the multiverse ·
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“I was happy, but I also wasn’t. Something was missing, here. Or not missing, but sleeping. But nothing here could wake it up. It made me feel alone. I don’t know how else to explain it.”

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

March 22, 2024 by narfna Leave a Comment

Well I didn’t finish this in time for book club (it was my pick 😂 ) but I did finish it! And it was excellent. [two and a half months later] Okay, so, I am largely incapable of writing reviews in 2024 it seems, but I wanted to say things about this! Firstly, I am going to lower this down to four stars because in the past two months, it really hasn’t stuck with me as much as I thought it would, the way that […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, lit-fic, literary, narfna, sci-fi, Simon Jimenez

narfna's CBR16 Review No:19 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, lit-fic, literary, narfna, sci-fi, Simon Jimenez ·
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