This review will be the definition of spoiler free, come see us June 1 to talk details. I am, as they say, perplexed by this book. It was like a roller coaster ride. At the beginning, I felt like this: There was a great wide world of story ahead and it was all for me. Historians! In the near future! Using the scientific method and time travel! But then, I spent a lot of time waiting for thins to start happening. And that was not […]
No Sparkly Vampires or Helpless Females here.
I wasn’t going to read this book. I have already declared a moratorium on post-apocalyptic trilogies starring plucky youngsters sprinkled in fairy dust that are the saviors of the entire world. Especially since this is one of those series that is self-published on Amazon and included in the free Kindle library. But the other day I was looking for something fast paced and interesting and this one was free so I gave it a shot. It’s fairly obvious that the heroine, Penryn is modeled after […]
You have to do more than just change the terminology to make it sound new
This is the first in a YA trilogy, and I’m not moving on to book two. I feel like that’s the whole review, but I’ll elaborate 🙂 My book club friend recommended this based on my love of dystopian stories. Kayla and Mishalla are teenage GENs (Genetically Engineered Nonhumans) living on a future planet colonized after Earth became uninhabitable. Those who could afford and fund the move have become the planet’s top class, the Trueborn. The Lowborn were brought along for their inital indentured servitude. […]
Ebola mixed with something much worse!
This is book 1 of a 5 book series. I will totally be continuing this series! We start out with a team of soldiers in Vietnam who were part of a secret bioweapen project (not that they knew they were a part of it). They take this experimental pill and basically go nuts. They turn into violent killing machines. It’s such a huge failure, they scrap the “super soldier” program. Thirty years later, an elite army team embarks on a mission that sounds shady. A […]
“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”
Here’s another YA novel with an interesting concept, but less than stellar execution. “I don’t know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.” Feed takes place sometime in the future, with flying cars and Spring Break on the moon. […]
A cavalcade of finery, from existential nihilism to haunted funeral attire.
I’ve fallen further behind in my reviews than I ever have. So, I’ve decided to do what I did for The Dresden Files: combine my reviews into one giant post. Is that cheating? I feel like that’s cheating. The longer I drag this out, though, the more I’m likely to fall behind. The Stranger, by Albert Camus (5 stars) Firstly, I read this because it’s one of the most frequently cited great novels from French literature. In my quest to read more classic novels this […]
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