Continuing my obsession with this sci-fi series, we have book three Abaddon’s Gate. Because the summary is going to be a bit spoilery for previous books, I want to start with why you should pick this series up. First, it’s just a really good operatic sci-fi series with enough elements of ‘hard’ sci-fi to give it a believable feel. I think I initially avoided the series because I’m not particularly fond of ‘hard’ sci-fi books where the author gets so lost in his science research […]
Dissension in the book club
I thoroughly enjoyed this one, but the majority of my sci-fi book club had some serious issues and eye-rolls with it, and our fearless leader didn’t even finish it. So I feel like I can’t wholeheartedly recommend it, but I really liked it! It’s post-apocalyptic, after the Gone Away War, when the world has unleashed reality-eating bombs at each other. Cities, towns, countrysides – all just disappear. It’s a war no one can win, and the survivors are left with the fallout: a non-radioactive “Stuff” […]
Dear Marissa Meyer, THIS is how you end a dystopian sci-fi series
Spoiler warning! This is the THIRD and final book of the trilogy and it’s going to be impossible for me to review this without referring at least a little to stuff that happened in the previous two books. Hence, this is not a review you want to check out until you are well and truly caught up. Interested in the series? Go forth and start at the beginning, with Red Rising. So readers will remember that when we last left Darrow at the end of […]
Call me sexist…..Okay. You are, Dresden. You’re a sexist.
The Dresden books are really good airport reads. I’m partial to genre fiction, so I read a lot more science fiction and fantasy than, say, James Patterson or John Grisham. But I think these books fall quite nicely into that quick, fun read section of the bookstore which is also inhabited by Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, and other, similar, authors. There’s nothing revolutionary, or particularly meaningful here. Butcher isn’t exploring the existential quandary his characters, or delving some broader exploration of life in the early […]
It’s Not You, It’s Me
For the first time in my adult life the phrase, “It’s not you, it’s me” is finally true. Sure, I said it to the creepy body builder guy who liked to read me children’s books after sex and stroke my hair (I was shocked after the first time, I knew I had to get out after the second time. He did introduce to me to Harry Potter…that’s the only nice thing I have to say about that guy… he wore Jesus sandals and always was […]
Melanie makes you love her, even if she maybe wants to eat you
This story is about a military outpost in post-apocalyptic England. You don’t really get all the details right away, so I won’t ruin it. I can say that it’s a “zombie” story, but I put zombie in quotes because it’s not your regular zombie story. I’m listening to this audiobook in my car, and I’ve never wanted to drive places more than now! I can’t stop listening. I’ve ended up parked outside my house just finishing listening to a chapter multiple times. I’m keeping notes […]
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