The Girl With All the Gifts is a bit slow moving at first. We start with Melanie, a precocious young girl who is being raised in captivity on a military base. She, along with two dozen other children, have various teacher who give them a variety of lessons. Ms Justineau is Melanie’s favorite teacher in part because she reads Greek myths to the class. But this isn’t a regular school; the children are kept locked up in cells and they attend their classes bound to wheelchairs. […]
Episode 1-29: What the F–k Did I Just Read?
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/08/08/episode-1-29-what-the-fuck-did-i-just-read/ Wherein I review: 111. A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World by Rachel Cantor 112. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 113. The Fold by Peter Clines 114. High-Rise by J.G. Ballard 115. Turbulence (Stone Barrington #46) by Stuart Woods Sometimes your little brain needs to get fried. This was a combo platter of what the f–kery. I enjoyed Robin Sloan’s wonderous cult of personality, and Peter Clines’ Lost-esque pseudo-sequel to 14. Didn’t so much love […]
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
So I really liked this book. I read a series either earlier this year or last year by Joe Hart, and it was very different from this book. I guess that series was still science fiction-y, like this one, but it still felt very different. We begin this book by meeting Gillian, as she’s basically getting into a car accident with her husband. We learn that he has this terrible brain disease called Losian’s, that’s similar to Alzheimer’s, but affects all ages. He’s starting to […]
Read this with a Michael Scott “NOOOOOOO”
If you came here from the mothership and you read it regularly, you know that Korean film can be … interesting. The Vegetarian is like that but a book and I wanted so hard to NOPE right out of there but it was short and I was as intrigued as I was horrified which is I guess another way to describe Korean film. I don’t really recommend this book unless you enjoy staring wide-eyed at the world and saying on repeat, “What the FUCK did I […]
The title leads you to believe it’s about the virals, but it’s really about the humans
Ok so this is the second book of the Passage trilogy. I thought I just made the name of the trilogy up, but then I looked at the title on Amazon (which I copied and pasted into here), and it’s totally called that. Yay me! Like I say in my review title above, the book is more about the people dealing with the twelve “master virals” (I definitely made that title up). The goal of most of the main characters in this book is to […]
Episode 1-26: Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/07/17/episode-1-26-horseshoes-and-hand-grenades/ Wherein I review: 98. Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith 99. Caraval (Caraval #1) by Stephanie Garber 100. Night Fall (Secret Histories #12) by Simon R. Green 101. Legendary (Caraval #2) by Stephanie Garber 102. White River Burning (Dave Gurney #6) by John Verdon 103. Stay Close by Harlan Coben Some more glorious Southern/Midwest Gothic. A new fantasy series happens when an author eats a whole lot of Legend and Labyrinth and Goblin Codpieces. Dave Gurney solves racism with a thousand red herrings. Secrets, […]
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