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The Variants are coming! The Variants are coming!

September 19, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Ok, so I finished book 3 (this book) the other night, and then IMMEDIATELY (like super instantly) started book 4, so I’m trying to separate the two. I should just go right to the CBR website and do my review before I start a new book. Especially the next book in a series. Anyway, here goes… As I inferred in my review for book 2 (I just reread my review), the Variants are doing terrible things to the human population. The human species is slowly […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith ·
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“It was the dawn of new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame.”

September 17, 2016 by crystalclear 1 Comment

Our adventure takes place in the near future (about 30 years from now).  Most people spend most of their time online (wait…) only online is way cooler.  They have the OASIS, which is kind of like a holodeck.  You put on a visor and haptic gloves and interact with your online world via your avatar.  (Kind of like the movie Avatar.)  And as the real world has gone to shit, being in the OASIS is way better than real life. The creator of the OASIS, […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: 80s, Ready Player One, sci-fi, video games

crystalclear's CBR8 Review No:20 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: 80s, Ready Player One, sci-fi, video games ·
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I read this book…when? If you haven’t already, you should too.

September 15, 2016 by genericwhitegirl Leave a Comment

This is an old review, and it will probably show. What I remember about this book is really more of what I remember from the move, tbh. One thing I CAN tell you is that I was turned on to this book by my husband who recently got his Kindle and was only reading free or 99 cent books, ’cause he’s cheap. Anyway, The Martian was one of them. That’s OG, y’all. ‘Cause I can tell you right now this book ‘aint free no mo. […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Andy Weir, Fiction, genericwhitegirl, sci-fi, science, science fiction, The Martian

genericwhitegirl's CBR8 Review No:3 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Andy Weir, Fiction, genericwhitegirl, sci-fi, science, science fiction, The Martian ·
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If you could see me now…

September 13, 2016 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

I’ve been impressed with the writing of H.G. Wells thus far. War of the Worlds was as good as I’d hoped: as exciting as the Spielberg movie, but without the insufferable children and tedious family dynamics. The Time Machine, while a tad dry, was still well-written and enjoyable. The Island of Dr. Moreau was fairly straight forward, but was masterfully executed, prescient, and surprisingly humane relative to other books of its era (think Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, or some of Rudyard Kipling’s work). The Invisible Man completes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: classics, h g wells, horror, The Invisible Man, unlikable characters

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:81 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: classics, h g wells, horror, The Invisible Man, unlikable characters ·
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Born This Way

September 12, 2016 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

So, I really, really loved The Rook. I loved Myfanwy Thomas and I loved the Checquy. I had pretty high hopes for this sequel, and overall, it was pretty good. The overarching focus of Stiletto is the peace accords between the Checquy and the Grafters, who were the big bads in the first book. The narrative moves between Felicity Clements, a Pawn with the ability to read the past through inanimate objects, and Odette Leliefeld, who’s part of the Grafter delegation visiting London. Myfanwy shows up throughout […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: checquy, London, myfanwy thomas

Ellesfena's CBR8 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: checquy, London, myfanwy thomas ·
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I read book 1 of this series on vacation, so book 2 is giving me beach flashbacks. It’s so not about the beach.

September 9, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

OK! This book is all about the super scary Variants. Good news / bad news… When Dr. Kate Lovato tried to “save the human race” from the hemorrhagic virus with a bioweapon she designed in book 1, it killed billions of people. That’s actually the good news. They all had this terrible Ebola-esque zombie hemorrhagic fever. So they really needed to be killed. The bad new is that 10% of the people hit with Dr. Kate’s bioweapon survived. You’d think this was the good new, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:35 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: Extinction Cycle, Nicholas Sansbury Smith ·
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