This is the first time since The Passage that my brain has DEMANDED MORE when I’ve gotten to the end of a Book 1. I want, I want, I want. I freaking fracking loved Red Rising, and it was a huge surprise to me, because as per uzh, I had totally forgotten what the book was about by the time it was checked out to me, making it a totally shocking, harsh deep dive into an incredibly complete and consuming future dystopia. There’s a lot […]
Shades of Red
This book is such a missed opportunity. When She Woke takes place some time in the future, in a dystopian United States where religion now supercedes politics. Hannah Payne has been arrested and charged with murder after she gets an abortion. Her punishment is “chroming”–her entire body is dyed red, signifying she is a murderer (Chromes can be yellow, orange, red, blue, green, or purple depending on their crime). It’s hard to say what this book is about, because a million things happen to Hannah […]
Voltron for grown-ups?
Another solid recommendation from Emily May on Goodreads. She mostly reviews YA, but when she branches to a bestseller or in this case, thriller/sci-fi, she can always be relied upon. As a girl, Rose Franklin falls into a giant hole in the woods near her home. It turns out to be a giant metal hand with strange markings and a turquoise glow. Years later, as a physicist, Dr. Franklin heads up a team of experts to find additional body parts all over the globe for […]
Mostly Stephen King, but a little bit of Adolph Hitler. Now with a Bernie Sanders reference!
The Running Man (1982) by Stephen King (3.5 stars) -not previously reviewed for the CBR Written as Richard Bachman, King’s introduction to this edition lays out his reasons for creating the pseudonym and, ultimately, killing him off following the discovery. Given his reasoning (which is basically that he wanted to try something different and test his success), I’m left wondering if King has other pseudonyms out there we don’t know about. I’ve wondered that about J.K. Rowling, as well. I’ve never really been interested in […]
More Omega Plague, but people are monsters too
This is book 3 of 4. It focuses on a small number of the group looking for Angie’s husband and daughter. They head back to Chico, CA in the helicopter with Vlad at the wheel. Do helicopters have wheels? I don’t think so. Anyway, they go back to Angie’s parent’s ranch, and find it ransacked. Everyone except her dad is gone, and her dad is upside down crucified, and a zombie. Not a great start to their adventure. At this point, it’s just Vlad, Angie, […]
I glom some more sci-fi mystery/romance
It’s that time of year again, when I decide to check in on Lt. Eve Dallas and her unbelievably wealthy and gorgeous husband Roarke. Just like a long-running TV show with characters and a setting I enjoy, these books are perfect vacation reading for me. Salvation in Death – 3.5 stars – A Catholic priest is poisoned with sacramental wine during the funeral of one of the communities best-loved senior citizens. There are tons of witnesses and initially, it seems impossible that anyone could have anything […]
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