I said that about the last book, but it’s even more true here. This is literary Versed. I barely remember anything from this book. The first was engaging and I really enjoyed the set up, even if the tone was somewhat distant. The second was more of what I disliked and less of what I liked. But this book was all questions and no answers, and hard as hell to follow. We don’t just have Control and Ghost Bird here, we have Saul the lighthouse […]

The blurbs on the back of this book were effusive and one even said something like “unputdownable.”  I had to put this book down so very many times because I just couldn’t get into it. I basically forced myself to finish it. We find the protagonist from the last book – the biologist, using the nickname “Ghost Bird” given to her by her husband – being interrogated by “Control” about her return from Area X. I read this book. I looked at every page. I […]

I have to wonder if subconsciously I knew that I was gonna be trapped in quarantine because of a pandemic, because MAN are a ton of the books that I bought prior to this starting about isolation, the apocalypse, or societal breakdown. I bought this in part because I thought the covers looked interesting at the bookstore, which is my most hilarious judging of a book by its cover because I found the trilogy bound together as a remainder, so I didn’t even buy the […]