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“Everything’s a haunted house in today’s America. Everything’s in need of an exorcism.”

March 24, 2017 by badkittyuno 2 Comments

So the only other book I’ve tried by Seanan McGuire was Every Heart a Doorway. That book was fascinating — it had a lot of really neat ideas and was well-executed. I remember that my main complaint was that it was too short. This book also had some really cool ideas, about ghosts and witches and the dead. But I thought the execution was poor and again, it just wasn’t long enough to really support the story. So this is about a dead girl named […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Seanan McGuire

badkittyuno's CBR9 Review No:74 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Seanan McGuire ·
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magic for nothing

Circus of Inhumans

March 14, 2017 by Julie Leave a Comment

Yes, it’s book six in a series.  You can probably go out and read the first five books before reading this one, but since this one takes a turn with a new character, Antimony Price, the youngest member of the Price siblings, you might be able to just read it on its own.  Antimony is the younger sister, and the aimless one who has not found a vocation or career, and is still living at home with her parents.  But that all changes when her […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: Incryptid, science fiction, Seanan McGuire, urban fantasy series

Julie's CBR9 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: Incryptid, science fiction, Seanan McGuire, urban fantasy series ·
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Carnivals, Monsters, and Magic- Oh My

March 13, 2017 by melanir 3 Comments

I got a surprise when I opened my Kindle on Friday. See, the email I use for Amazon was being annoying on my phone, so I wasn’t getting emails and I frequently forget the release dates for books. When I opened my Kindle and saw the cover of Magic for Nothing staring out at me, ready for my reading pleasure, I died of happiness. It was the best. Magic for Nothing is book six in Seanan McGuire’s Incryptid series, and is really not the place […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Incryptid, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy

melanir's CBR9 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Incryptid, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy ·
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Death Doesn’t Discriminate

February 1, 2017 by Lipton 4 Comments

Life is cruel and life is kind; sometimes it gives and other times it takes. Life is one side of the coin and death is the other. There are the living and there are the dead and then there are the ones trapped in between.

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: dusk or dark or dawn or day, fantasy, paranormal fantasy, Seanan McGuire

Lipton's CBR9 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: dusk or dark or dawn or day, fantasy, paranormal fantasy, Seanan McGuire ·
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“One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.”

January 17, 2017 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

One of things that I love about Goodreads is that it helps you discover sequels that you never knew existed. When I logged my review of Neverwhere a couple weeks ago, Goodreads called it Neverwhere (London Below, The World of Neverwhere), indicating that other stories must exist in the series! In this instance, it referred to a short story called How the Marquis Got His Coat Back. Google told me it was published in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, so…here we are! While the story of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: badkittyuno, Cat Rambo Daniel H. Wilson, Jess Row, jo walton, Karen Russell T. C. Boyle, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Seanan McGuire, Sofia Samatar

badkittyuno's CBR9 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: badkittyuno, Cat Rambo Daniel H. Wilson, Jess Row, jo walton, Karen Russell T. C. Boyle, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Seanan McGuire, Sofia Samatar ·
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The sun comes up, just your bones remain

January 11, 2017 by melanir 7 Comments

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day is a standalone novella by Seanan McGuire who is one of my favorite writers. I love her work and I recommend it every chance I get. But even with all that, this novella hit me in a very different way than most of her novels do. I can’t be objective about this novella, I just can’t. It completely and utterly wrecked me and left me a sobbing mess on my couch last night. Yesterday morning I got an email […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: ghost story, novella, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy

melanir's CBR9 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: ghost story, novella, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy ·
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