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This is what it means to be a woman in the world. Every step is a bargain with pain.

October 5, 2016 by Malin Leave a Comment

From the blurb: From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes a brilliant reinvention of one of the best known fairy tales of all time. In the novella Six-Gun Snow White, Valente transports the title’s heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West where Coyote is just as likely to be found as the seven dwarves.  A plain-spoken, appealing narrator relates the story of her parents – a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Western Tagged With: Catherynne M. Valente, CBR8, fairy tale retelling, feminism, historical fantasy, magic, Malin, Native American, novella, Six-Gun Snow White, Snow White, western, witches

Malin's CBR8 Review No:111 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Western · Tags: Catherynne M. Valente, CBR8, fairy tale retelling, feminism, historical fantasy, magic, Malin, Native American, novella, Six-Gun Snow White, Snow White, western, witches ·
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Another romance hero with PTSD

October 5, 2016 by Malin Leave a Comment

Miss Cecily Hale is at a country house with a number of friends, and they are trying to keep themselves entertained with stories and diversions. Cecily really wants nothing more than to catch the attention of Luke Trenton, Viscount Merritt, the man she has pined for since he kissed her four years ago, on the eve of going to war. The war is over, but it changed Luke irrevocably. His memories of Cecily kept him company on the battlefield, but he has returned from the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: CBR8, historical romance, How to Catch a Wild Viscount, Malin, novella, Regency, Tessa Dare, Wanton Dairymaid trilogy

Malin's CBR8 Review No:109 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: CBR8, historical romance, How to Catch a Wild Viscount, Malin, novella, Regency, Tessa Dare, Wanton Dairymaid trilogy ·
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Fantasy novella with an adorable protagonist.

August 21, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is how you do a novella, people. I bought this on release day, actually, and I’m not sure why I waited to read it. I loved Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy, and even now after reading this, I still want more from this world. But I just finished The Fifth Season over the weekend, and then I had a bad experience with another novella read for the Hugos, and this was just the perfect antidote to both of those. The Fifth Season was wonderful, but so, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: fantasy, inheritance, n.k. jemisin, narfna, novella, the awakened kingdom

narfna's CBR8 Review No:110 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: fantasy, inheritance, n.k. jemisin, narfna, novella, the awakened kingdom ·
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Read one of Meljean Brook’s other paranormals instead

August 21, 2016 by Malin Leave a Comment

2.5 stars Olivia just wants to go home to her family for Christmas, preferably before the snow hits, but her boss has made her go out of her way to deliver some important papers to his son, a man she’s been studiously trying to avoid for over a year, after they kissed and he declared it a big mistake. Turns out that dear old dad had ulterior motives, and while Erik Gulbrandr does his best to get Olivia far away from him (even though he […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: CBR8, Frozen, Malin, Meljean Brook, norse mythology, novella, paranormal romance, shapeshifters

Malin's CBR8 Review No:90 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Suspense · Tags: CBR8, Frozen, Malin, Meljean Brook, norse mythology, novella, paranormal romance, shapeshifters ·
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All the World’s a Stage and Quentin only a Squire.

August 3, 2016 by melanir Leave a Comment

Full of Briars is a novella set in the world of October Daye featuring Toby’s squire Quentin Sollys. It’s a quick, fun, light peak into the world building that McGuire has done for these novels and for that I appreciate it. However, there’s not much to it beyond that. This short novella is set between Chimes at Midnight and The Winter Long (books 7 and 8 of the series) and thus will contain spoilers for just about everything previous. It concerns the revelation of Quentin’s parentage […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: novella, October Daye, Seanan McGuire

melanir's CBR8 Review No:68 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: novella, October Daye, Seanan McGuire ·
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I wish we still called them velocipedes.

April 21, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

I didn’t quite like this novella as much as everyone else seems to, but it definitely proves Courtney Milan hasn’t lost her touch with historical romance, after the disappointing first outing in this series. Her Every Wish is Daisy’s story. Daisy was Judith’s best friend from Once Upon a Marquess. She has dreams of opening her own business, and when the opportunity presents itself, she decides to enter into a contest to win money to open that dream business. The only problem is, she’s a […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Courtney Milan, Her Every Wish, historical romance, narfna, novella, Regency, romance, the Worth saga

narfna's CBR8 Review No:62 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Courtney Milan, Her Every Wish, historical romance, narfna, novella, Regency, romance, the Worth saga ·
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