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The one without the series’ main character.

August 28, 2018 by narfna 4 Comments

I have liked this book against my will. I am a completionist, so I will be finishing this series, even though it is ALL OVER THE PLACE, all caps well deserved. But I put off reading this book for a long time because it seemed like SJM was taking me on a detour to a country I knew nothing about with characters I didn’t know, and Chowl (who I really grew to dislike over the course of the first four books), and I was resentful […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: fantasy, narfna, romance, sarah j maas, tower of dawn, Young Adult, young adult fantasy

narfna's CBR10 Review No:103 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: fantasy, narfna, romance, sarah j maas, tower of dawn, Young Adult, young adult fantasy ·
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Bad Beauty and the Beast fanfic

July 24, 2018 by lowercasesee 8 Comments

I read through some of y’alls reviews and I apologize up front because I’ve been really looking forward to writing this review about how laughably awful I find these books. I’ll include a few more disclaimers. I think these books are trash and I do this to myself because this is the second time I’ve read these series and that’s like one and a half times too many. But not only did I read all three, I reread them. I have only myself to blame for […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: sarah j maas

lowercasesee's CBR10 Review No:85 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: sarah j maas ·
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A rollercoaster of frustration, eyerolling, and morbid curiosity

May 8, 2018 by Aquillia 7 Comments

One of my goals this year is to read more fantasy by female authors. I will not declare this to be an exclusive goal (if the next Martin or Rothfuss or Lynch or Staveley novel is punished I will devour it with no guilt whatsoever). But as a woman trying to write fantasy, I want to see more what is being published by my female peers. This also may lead to less obnoxious grim-dark fantasy, which sounds great to me. My reading choices are also […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Crown of Midnight, Empire of Storms, heir of fire, incessant humping, queen of shadows, sarah j maas, The Assassin's Blade, Throne of Glass, Throne of Glass series, tower of dawn, ya fantasy

Aquillia's CBR10 Review No:8 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Crown of Midnight, Empire of Storms, heir of fire, incessant humping, queen of shadows, sarah j maas, The Assassin's Blade, Throne of Glass, Throne of Glass series, tower of dawn, ya fantasy ·
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Like an appetizer that just makes you want the actual meal even more

May 6, 2018 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I love Sarah J. Maas novels, and especially her series A Court of Thorns and Roses.  I knew going in that this novella was supposed to help serve as a bridge between the last book and the upcoming novels in the series, but despite that, I was a bit disappointed with this one as a whole (I may have had too much wine to drink to really appreciate this one). The story is set before and during Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: a court of frost and starlight, A Court of Thorns and Roses, bridge story, novella, sarah j maas

Jen K's CBR10 Review No:60 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: a court of frost and starlight, A Court of Thorns and Roses, bridge story, novella, sarah j maas ·
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Is She Just Going to Get a New Potential Love Interest Each Book?

February 21, 2018 by Quorren 2 Comments

Why does Empire Strike Back work so well? Because each side story that one of the main characters is on is interesting and well-thought out. If Luke had gone to Dagobah and Han and Leia stayed brooding on the Falcon and moping about Luke being gone, and then there was a random story about a previously unknown Sith lord hanging out with his mean Stormtrooper friends, there would be no international phenomenon today. Anyways, this long and drawn out metaphor is how I feel about […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: heir of fire, Quorren, sarah j maas, Throne of Glass

Quorren's CBR10 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: heir of fire, Quorren, sarah j maas, Throne of Glass ·
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Half-Cannonball? The books I read and didn’t review

December 31, 2017 by Aquillia Leave a Comment

I needed to write one more review to reach my goal of a half-cannonball, so here’s a roundup of the books I read and didn’t review this year. Does this still count? Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. 3 stars. I enjoyed this one, reading it on a 7 hour plane journey. The love triangle was a bit irritating in that the end took a bit of a cop out so that it could be an element in later books, but overall it was […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: agatha christie, book round up, half-cannonball, Jeff Wheeler, sarah j maas, Stephen King, T. E. Kinsey

Aquillia's CBR9 Review No:26 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: agatha christie, book round up, half-cannonball, Jeff Wheeler, sarah j maas, Stephen King, T. E. Kinsey ·
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