6 years of #RBRT reviews, 14 favorite reads, fear, friends, and an invitation. #humor #friends #Coronavirus
To celebrate the sixth anniversary of her book review team, book blogger extraordinaire Rosie Amber has listed the fourteen most …
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The Girl With All the (Meta)Plots. Plus #BookReviews #RBRT
In the early seventies, writer and journalist Christopher Booker started working on a book. Thirty years later, The Seven …
Dragons & Cats plus #RBRT #Bookreview of THE STANDING STONES by Caren J. Werlinger, #YA #Fantasy #TuesdayBookBlog
Dragons. Or maybe cats… I’ve been thinking about dragons lately. What makes them so compelling? Almost every culture celebrates …
#RBRT #Bookreview of THE PORTAL by Caren J. Werlinger, #YA #Fantasy #Irish
I have good news and bad news. Bad news: You’re the Chosen One. Say goodbye to your family, because they’ll …
Rosie Amber #RBRT Book Awards Are Open
Rosie’s team reviewed some amazing books this year. Please vote for your favorites and support these authors—and their hard-working reviewers!
#RBRT #bookreview for Rarity From the Hollow by Robert Eggleton
Magic Realism or…? Time to play GUESS MY GENRE If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t …
#RBRT #bookreview for #anthology THE EXPERIMENTAL NOTEBOOK OF C.S. BOYACK
I have a necklace. Each pearl is perfectly matched, building carefully in size from the small ones at each end …
#Gothic, #Ghosts, and #Victorian Viagra, ~DANGER AT THATCHAM HALL by Frances Evesham #RBRT #Bookreviews, interview, excerpt
Arsenic poisoning was a common way for Victorians to die. They used it everywhere: in the new, fashionable green wallpaper that Queen Victoria used in Buckingham Palace; in the green dye of dresses; in “Dr Simms Arsenic Complexion Wafers and Medicated Arsenic Soap;” designed to give a woman a rosy complexion; and in a ‘pure’ form which men took to improve sexual function. Unfortunately, death often followed on the heels of such a use of “Victorian Viagra,” but at least those men died happy.
Dark #UrbanFantasy UNHINGED by Shelley Pickens #RBRT #Bookreview
“Doctor, this woman’s kidneys are missing.” We made it through various bits of eerie mayhem—including the alien birth (tastefully shown in silhouette behind a scrim, but I still recognized my daughter as the ‘mother’)—by not meeting the eyes of any other parents.
Urban Fantasy vs Horror~LOSING IT by Elizabeth Armstrong #RBRT #Bookreview
In most horror, it’s enough that the main characters survive Daddy coming for them with an axe. But in urban fantasy, they catch the ghost who drove Daddy crazy and charge him with income tax evasion, bring hot dish to the ghost’s mama, and maybe end up married to the ghost’s sister.
Barb Taub 