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“Armageddon was a fire in the harbor, a box delivered on a cold day. It wasn’t one great tragedy, but ten million tiny ones, and everyone faced theirs alone.”

The Warm Hands of Ghosts: A Novel by Katherine Arden

July 27, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

They are fighting their war in the last world, but we’re dying in this one. January 1918. Laura Iven, a revered field nurse, wounded when the Germans bombed the munitions depot her field hospital was next to, is discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Months later, back home in Halifax, Canada, Laura lives assisting three elderly mediums after the deaths of her parents. On the night that Pim Shaw, a young widow seeking to connect with her son, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror Tagged With: enemies to lovers, faustian bargains, Katherine Arden, Nova Scotia, nursing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the fiddler, World War I

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:97 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror · Tags: enemies to lovers, faustian bargains, Katherine Arden, Nova Scotia, nursing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the fiddler, World War I ·
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You okay?” “I think so.” A more accurate response would have been clinically alive but dead inside, but that probably wasn’t appropriate with strangers.

Skin and Bones: London Love Book Three by Sophia Soames

February 4, 2024 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Mark nodded. “And you should take Hugo. Get some sea air in his lungs. Get shat on by some seagulls.” “Bloody seagulls.” “Sandy beaches, open spaces. Who needs shit like that?” “Nobody,” I agreed. “Fucking nobody.” ― Sophia Soames, Skin and Bones The quote above is the only one I highlighted while reading. And it perfectly encapsulates why I adore Sophia Soames’s writing. This is the third Soames book I’ve read in the past six months, and the second one I have read this year. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: asexuality, brain damage, Comfort Love, disabled characters, disordered eating, Domestic Abuse, domestic assault, fluff, found family, gaslighting, Graphic Content, healing, Hotel life, LGBTQIA romance, OCD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), queer romance, Rape, Slow Burn Romance, Sophia Soames, Therapy, trauma, trust issues, workplace romance

carmelpie's CBR16 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: asexuality, brain damage, Comfort Love, disabled characters, disordered eating, Domestic Abuse, domestic assault, fluff, found family, gaslighting, Graphic Content, healing, Hotel life, LGBTQIA romance, OCD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), queer romance, Rape, Slow Burn Romance, Sophia Soames, Therapy, trauma, trust issues, workplace romance ·
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Eat Meat Or Not

Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir by Michael Anthony

August 25, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir is a very pro vegetarian/vegan lifestyle memoir. There are intense images of animal abuse/cruelty as well as human death, blood, and talk of war. I wonder what Chai Simone (illustrator) was thinking  when they were asked to do this graphic novel. Because for them this was a debut and they are being asked to create images of slaughtering animals, missing limbs on humans and a guy barfing in a toilet holding a giant bong. There is also mention of […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Chai Simone, family, friendship, Michael Anthony, military, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Relationship, Social Activists

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:621 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance · Tags: Chai Simone, family, friendship, Michael Anthony, military, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Relationship, Social Activists ·
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