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I really want to go to the Dark Forest at Sugar Fair – why does it have to be fictional?

Battle Royal by Lucy Parker

August 20, 2021 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I absolutely adored Lucy Parker’s London Celebrities series and was excited to get my hands on the first book in her next series, Battle Royal. How could I not be excited for a book where the introduction to our protagonists involves a confectionary unicorn hoof hitting one of them on the forehead mid-judging of a televised baking competition? After that first meeting four years ago Sylvie Fairchild has gone on to open her own bakery, Sugar Fair, across the street from Dominic De Vere’s eponymous […]

Where Hands Go by Krystaelynne Sanders Diggs

August 18, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

Trigger Warning: Book being reviewed discusses childhood sexual abuse, hereafter called CSA, just in case you need to skip. Where Hands Go by Krystaelynne Sanders Diggs is a really well-illustrated resource that uses an easily accessible poem (whose rhyme scheme doesn’t hit 100% of the time, but you know that I’m much more of a stickler for that than most readers, and definitely child readers), to talk to kids about bodily autonomy. Through really great illustrations of a young, black, female-presenting child & her mom, […]

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NTE's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: abuse, childhood sexual abuse, krystaelynne sanders diggs, NetGalley, Picture Books, Trigger Warning, where hands belong ·

Okay, but absinthe in a cupcake? Skeptical.

Battle Royal by Lucy Parker

August 16, 2021 by J 3 Comments

On a fictional British baking show with three judges, Sylvie Fairchild works her magic with cake and frosting. At least, until the week one of her fanciful cakes assaults one of the judges, Dominic De Vere, and the two fall madly in love. Sort of. There’s a little bit of story between the beginning and the end. Sylvie and Dominic are not quite enemies. Though their rival bake shops are across the street from one another, they aren’t competing for the same customers. Dominic is […]

“No mistakes…” “just happy accidents”

With You Forever by Chloe Liese

August 10, 2021 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

There’s a special feeling when you pick up a book by an author you’ve been reading for a while and you just know that they have relaxed into writing. In With You Forever, the fourth in the Bergman Brothers series, Chloe Liese feels like she’s hit her stride. The book is relaxed and confident. There were no moments when I felt like she had added something to the story because she thought it was required. It made reading this book like sinking into the most […]

Basketball & Life

The Second Season by Emily Adrian

August 8, 2021 by J Leave a Comment

So much of Ruth Devon’s life has revolved around basketball. After her college ball career ended in injury, she married her coach, and took to the floor as a sideline commentator on games. Sometimes, she’d fill in in the announcing booth. It’s only fitting that she would reach a crossroad in her life during the NBA finals. The Second Season explores how Ruth attempts to juggle her desire to be a “better” mother with her professional ambition. She lives and breathes basketball, and her daughter […]

What if Persephone was a jaded socialite and Hades was a broody cinnamon roll?

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

August 8, 2021 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR13 Bingo: Mythic (while this is pretty much a straight-up contemporary romance/erotica, the mythological influences are very much there throughout the book) This book was granted to me as an ARC through NetGalley in return for an honest review. It’s available now. Persephone Dimitriou is a society darling, living in the lap of luxury in a stylish highrise in the city of Olympus. Her mother is Demeter, head of one of the thirteen ruling houses and while she seems to care for her four daughters, […]

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