I was anxious to read this book, could the last in the trilogy measure up to the first two? I’m glad to say it did! At first I was annoyed by the constant presence of the Crakers but they grow on you over time, as does the perspective of hearing a story as told to them, simplistic and filled with misinformation and half truths. The device allows for humor though (“please stop singing” and the invocation of f***) which this deep into a dystopian future […]
Cross. Jahan Cross.
You know a song is great when it can be covered in any style. Think of how many people have covered Dylan and The Beatles. You also know that a fictional universe is great when you can tell any kind of story within it. While I am not a huge fan of the Star Wars movies, I do appreciate the universe. It is so well known that it can be a backdrop for any story in any medium. Star Wars: Edge of the Empire is […]
Who knew intergalactic peace summits could be so entertaining?
This is the second book in the Innkeeper Chronicles. It can be read as a stand-alone, but to really get the most enjoyment out of this book, and to get a proper feel and understanding for some of the characters, you may want to read the first one, Clean Sweep and also two of the Andrews’ Edge books, Fate’s Edge and Steel’s Edge. As I did last time, I’m going to let the authors sum up the book themselves: Dina DeMille doesn’t run your typical […]
You stumbled on the finish line there, Marissa
3.5 stars WARNING! This review WILL contain spoilers for earlier books in the series. Do NOT keep reading this review if you’re not caught up, having read all three previous books! There are also some minor spoilers for this book, but if you skip my list of dislikes, you’ll avoid them. Winter was one of the books I was most anticipating in the second half of 2015. Marissa Meyer’s retellings of Grimm fairy tales with a clever YA sci-fi dystopian twist just kept getting better […]
Evil is not a view … it’s an ingredient in us
It seems almost impossible to avoid seeing anything about the new Amazon series “The Man in the High Castle” and it made me curious enough to read the novel by Philip K. Dick, on which it is based. One of my goals with CBR7 was to try new writers and genres and I know PKD was in there somewhere. It wasn’t all that pressing though, so I thought I could take my time and scout around for a used copy of one of the fine […]
I cannot read the word “robot” without pronouncing it like Zoidberg — should I seek help for this?
This was, if nothing else, very entertaining. In a book full of robots and evil computers, the relationship between the two main characters seemed the most ridiculous to me. Maybe I should stop reading so much YA — the youths are starting to make me angry. Nevertheless, I still liked this one. So, sometime in the future, a group of scientists create an artificial intelligence named Charlotte, which (of course) eventually goes mad and kills people. Specifically, Lee Fisher’s mother. Now, Lee’s father is the president, and […]
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