My 11yo daughter loved Telgemeier’s Sisters, Smile, and Drama, so this was a must-order for me when it came out last week. We opened the package this morning and she and I have both already read this sweet graphic novel from cover to cover! My 8yo son is up next. Catrina and her family are moving to a blustery coastal California town in the hopes that the climate will be better for Catrina’s little sister Maya, who has cystic fibrosis. Catrina is torn between wanting […]
Sweet and fun fairytale update
Many of you have recommended this romance to me as someone who has trouble loving romances. This was really sweet and I thorougly enjoyed it. It’s been reviewed here at CBR a zillion times, but this is a Cinderella retelling. Sophie Beckett is our principled and kind heroine, a blow-by of an earl, forced into servitude by an evil stepmother and unloving stepsisters. When she sneaks into a masquerade ball, she meets and falls in love with Benedict Bridgerton, but leaves before revealing her identity. […]
The review in which a misunderstanding and an international incident lead to a DNF
This is my second DNF review for CBR8. I have really good reasons, other than the fact that this book was going nowhere. Let’s get the reviewy part out of the way. This blandly-titled thriller starts with Simone and Matt discovering that their infant daughter Helena has been abducted. Fast-forward, and a young woman named Grace seeks out Simone claiming that she might be her missing daughter and also claiming that she may have just killed a man. Grace’s requests, actions, and backstory are a […]
Hopeful dystopian, how about it?
In this dense and creative thriller, the worldwide apocalyptic event is actually a fungal infection that covers its victims in black and gold markings and causes them to spontaneously combust. That’s a new one, right? The public calls it Dragonscale, “the ‘Scale” for short. Adding the destructive power of fire to an already dystopian environment considerably ups the tension quotient! Our heroine is Harper, a married nurse, who spends the early part of the novel caring for the infected and trying to hold her marriage […]