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The Variants are back, and so is Apollo!

June 22, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This is book six in the Extinction Cycle books.  I read book five a few months ago, and then needed a little break from the bleak world of the Variants and the Juveniles and all the fighting.  When I picked this book up (Kindle version natch), it took me a little while to get into it, for those very same reasons.  Once I got going though, I couldn’t stop.  I love the characters in this world.  Also, Apollo is back.  Once I saw he’d be […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: #plague, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Variants

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: #plague, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Variants ·
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The Passage by Justin Cronin

Okay, But I Have Questions

June 20, 2017 by Gracey the Giant 1 Comment

So, this series apparently got a lot of hype when the first book, The Passage, first came out.  I was, presumably, living under a rock at the time, and so hadn’t heard of it.  In fact, I didn’t really hear about the series until the final book came out, at which point I decided to read them all. And, well, the first half of the first book was great, the second half was good. The second book was okay, verging on bad and the third book was […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: #thepassage, City of Mirrors, future science, Justin Cronin, post apocalypse, the passage, The Twelve, trilogy, vampires, vision of the future

Gracey the Giant's CBR9 Review No:21 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: #thepassage, City of Mirrors, future science, Justin Cronin, post apocalypse, the passage, The Twelve, trilogy, vampires, vision of the future ·
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Some Will Not Sleep – like me!

June 20, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

From the author, on the title: The title of the collection was inspired by the First Epistle of Corinthians (15:5), written by Paul the Apostle: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed”. As with much of the bible, there are multiple interpretations of the meaning in this statement. But there are several interpretations of the title of this book too. Some within it do not sleep, some who read it may not sleep, and he who wrote it often doesn’t sleep. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: Adam Nevill, don't read at night, horror

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: Adam Nevill, don't read at night, horror ·
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He walked like no man on earth, I swear he had no name.

June 8, 2017 by scootsa1000 Leave a Comment

As you know by now, I’m a sucker for Uncle Stevie. Anything he writes, I’ll read. Novel, short story, op-ed, tweets, collaborations…I’m there. That’s why I’m a Constant Reader. This isn’t the first collaboration with another author that I’ve read by King. He wrote a few short stories with his son, Joe Hill that were pretty good (In the Tall Grass was legitimately terrifying). His book with Stewart O’Nan, Faithful, is probably my favorite non-fiction book of all time. So, even though I had never […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: castle rock, cbr9, gwendy's button box, joe hill, randall flagg, richard chizmar, Scootsa1000, Stephen King, stewart o'nan

scootsa1000's CBR9 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: castle rock, cbr9, gwendy's button box, joe hill, randall flagg, richard chizmar, Scootsa1000, Stephen King, stewart o'nan ·
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I Might Be in the Minority Here, But I Wasn’t Really Feeling This One

May 25, 2017 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

What a contrast to go from a book that I gave 5 stars to something that I’m not sure ever fully engrossed me. While the odd story here or there within the collection peaked my interest, overall something was missing here. I have previously read Joe Hill’s sublime graphic novel series Locke & Key –which was absolute breathtaking– and therefore had some high hopes with this short-story collection. This, unfortunately, led to some disappointment on my part. 20th Century Ghosts is a collection of short […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Suspense Tagged With: 20th century ghosts, collection, joe hill

Lisa Bee's CBR9 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Suspense · Tags: 20th century ghosts, collection, joe hill ·
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Once More With Feeling

May 23, 2017 by TylerDFC 4 Comments

Old wounds, old enemies, and old questions all play a big part in season 10 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Dark Horse Comics.  For the first time since the series was restarted in comics format this season feels the most like the original television series in both scope and the characters and how the interact with each other. If you are not caught up on the series I will try to quickly summarize the pertinent bits. If you are not familiar with the series […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror Tagged With: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, buffy: season 10, CBR8, christos gage, Graphic Novel, Joss Whedon, megan levens, nicholas brendon, rebekah Isaacs, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR9 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror · Tags: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, buffy: season 10, CBR8, christos gage, Graphic Novel, Joss Whedon, megan levens, nicholas brendon, rebekah Isaacs, TylerDFC ·
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