The tag line for the book Agatha H and the Airship City is “Adventure! Romance! Science!” In this steam-punk twist, there are people who are Sparks, meaning individuals with the talent of a mad-scientist. Sparks of the past and some of the present are of the deranged evil scientist variety, and they tend to rule the world or at least part of it. Almost 20 years before the current story, a pair of Spark brothers from one of the most notorious Spark families, the Heterodynes, […]
Never Read Books About Plagues When You’re Sick
Don’t expect me to keep up this reading pace, I’m going to drop back soon, for sure. I decided not to grade anything and just read in bed, on the couch or wherever my kids would let me be sick and “semi-participate” in life while coughing, sneezing, and snorting. So this is book four in the Gone series and while I’m enjoying reading these books, I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone if you’re having a bad go of things lately–you might smile for a second […]
A GMO Built Wasteland
This is the second book in a trilogy, but I finished the first book in December of 2015, and thus it is not eligible. If you’re interested in this book, obviously you should probably look at the first one first. I’m going to try to avoid spoilers for the first book here, but as this is a sequel and builds off of those events there are probably going to be at least a few. Before I start (and thus before the cut happens, so you […]
Flatland, aka Flatplot
This is the second audio book that I’ve listened to. I prefer to read books rather than to have books read to me. However, Flatland by Edwin Abbott, was a better audio book than print. It allowed me to multi-task because the book bored me to death. I wouldn’t have started it in the first place, but I’m determined to finish all of the books that my book club chooses to read. Flatland is a Victorian satire, and not well done at that. Flatland is […]
Sh*t Just Got Real
Where I was feeling that perhaps after book two of this series I was going to let it go, I couldn’t without finding out what happens to the kids trapped in the FAYZ (Fallout Alley Youth Zone). I’m glad that I didn’t stop reading the series. This book surpassed book two by a mile…but man, did it get dark. I literally cannot talk about nearly any aspect of the plot without spoiling things from books one and two…I’ve tried three times to write this review, […]
But Where is Red Going?
In a world where people are sorted according to their skin/hair/eye colours (but like, even worse than in ours, obviously), Reds belong to the servant/slave class, forced to work underground to mine gasses needed to terraform the solar system and improve the lot of all the rest of the colours. Disobedience is punished swiftly, as Darrow learns early on, but a terrorist group called the Sons of Ares saves him and transforms him into a Gold, the ruling class, hoping to set the stage for […]
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