Speculative Fiction – Page 111

A Trip Down the Green Mile

The Green Mile by Stephen King

January 22, 2021 by RachelGraceSanchez 1 Comment

What a depressing book. From start-to-finish, I couldn’t wait to be done. Every turn of the page seemed to bring on a new horror. From squashed mice and executions gone terribly wrong, to evil-hearted characters and an unsatisfactory ending, there was plenty to be upset about. That said, Stephen King’s The Green Mile was no disappointment. Here’s a quick summary, so you know what I’m talking about: Paul Edgecome, a death row correctional officer, is responsible for carrying out the death penalty for those assigned […]

A Future Worth Living For

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

January 19, 2021 by RachelGraceSanchez 10 Comments

What a delightfully pleasant read. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, offers a story filled with possibility, opportunity, and even a bit of hope. The book begins with Nora Seed, underwhelmed with her disappointing life, deciding to end it all with a handful of pills. It isn’t so much that her life has become too much to handle, but the excitement has dimmed. Life has become meaningless and the only way out is the Midnight Library. Although Nora doesn’t know it yet. As it turns […]

The One- Soon to be on Netflix (per the overly excited front page of the book)

The One by John Marrs

January 18, 2021 by NatteringwPride Leave a Comment

The basic premise of this book is relatively simple- what if someone figured out a way to find everybody’s DNA-designated soulmate and made it into a dating service? What would that do to relationships? What would that do to married couples who decide to see if they really are meant to be? How sure could you be that your match was actually the real deal? The One explores this through the lives of several individuals as they use the service. There’s the engaged couple who […]

How the Heroine Lost Her Appeal

How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge by K. Eason

January 3, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I had thought to finish How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge for 2020 since I’d just reviewed the first book in the series, but I wasn’t quite fast enough. As sequels go, this was pretty average. The action picks up not too long after the concluding events of the first novel, with Rupert, Grytt, and Ivar on their sheep farm on Lanscott, and Rory, Jaed, Zhang, and Thorsdottir basically doing some free-lance piracy/salvage work in some remote corner of space. One of the fairies appears […]

Viscerally terrifying, but maybe a little too clean?

The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher

January 1, 2021 by Jenna 10 Comments

Kara is reeling from an out-of-the-blue divorce from her husband when her Uncle Earl calls to offer her his spare room. Sure, the room is back in her home state of North Carolina. And sure, the room is in the back of Uncle Earl’s “curio museum,” featuring such exhibits as a “genuine” Fiji Mermaid and an uncomfortable number of taxidermied animals. But when you’re a freelance graphic designer with a small client base, sometimes you have to make do. So Kara moves to the Wonder […]

A gorgeous love story that develops through time and letters

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

December 31, 2020 by Aquillia 2 Comments

This is How You Lose the Time War deserves the hype. The more fantasy I read, the more I crave something that pushes the boundaries, something that really wows me. Several of the books I read did this year by being ‘utterly bonkers’, as I’ve described them, but This is How You Lose the Time War managed it in an entirely different way. Technically, I think this is science-fiction, not fantasy, but it still pushes the boundaries because it is, first and foremost, an epistolary novel, […]

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