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Careful What You Wish For

March 21, 2015 by Melina Leave a Comment

In my last review of book 4 in this series I suggested that it was impossible for all the major characters to hold up so long, often in such wildly impossible scenarios and that surely at least one of them should have died. Well…I guess I should play the lottery or something because it appears that if I ask for something, I get it. In this book, no major character was safe any longer; the stakes were much higher and it was clear that all […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: ashes of Pompeii, CBR7, ghouls, Melina, purge of Babylon series, sam sisavath, zombie/vampires

Melina's CBR7 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: ashes of Pompeii, CBR7, ghouls, Melina, purge of Babylon series, sam sisavath, zombie/vampires ·
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A Zombie Slump

March 18, 2015 by Melina 4 Comments

The Fires of Atlantis is the fourth book in the Purge of Babylon series and it has finally struck…I’m kind of sick of reading these books. They aren’t even the kind of books I usually read which makes it even harder to stick with them. BUT, I’m going to soldier on because I can’t leave the series just yet, mostly because my mom told me to keep going. I’m an only child, I listen to my mom. I also talk to her at least once […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Melina, purge of babylon series book 4, sam sisavath, the fires of atlantis, zombie/vampires

Melina's CBR7 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Melina, purge of babylon series book 4, sam sisavath, the fires of atlantis, zombie/vampires ·
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Same Zombies Different Day

March 14, 2015 by Melina 1 Comment

  It is REALLY hard to talk about these books without giving away major plot points. That being said, I’m starting to get the hang of who’s going to become a “collaborator” (one who works in the best interests of the ghouls). It’s a very simple formula, one that I think just about anyone would catch after the first book–if the group has to leave you for dead (for the sake of the groups’ safety), or if you’ve been ditched/voted off the island for being […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: sam sisavath, the purge series book 3, zombie/vampires

Melina's CBR7 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: sam sisavath, the purge series book 3, zombie/vampires ·
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Second Verse, Same As the First

March 13, 2015 by Melina Leave a Comment

  Sam Sisavath’s second book of survival picks up where the first book left off…and I predict that this is how all the books are going to go. There’s going to be a metaphorical carrot of safety dangled in front of them, they’ll go for it and that safety will be revoked…or so it seems to go.  Chapter by chapter we get a story told from the perspective of different characters from varying sides (good guys, bad guys, undead peeps). We have Will and Danny, […]

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Melina's CBR7 Review No:15 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: CBR7, Melina, sam sisavath, survival, vampires, zombies ·
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I Would Totally NOT Kick Ass in a Zombie Apocalypse

March 11, 2015 by Melina Leave a Comment

So…the other night I started reading this book based on my mom’s recommendation and she was right, I was immediately sucked in. So much so in fact, that in the middle of the night I woke my husband up (I’m not exactly sure that I was fully awake, since I do sleep walk and talk) and told him to get “all the guns out” and that I was going to pack a kit for us and the kids. Flabbergasted, he watched as I peered out […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: action novel, CBR7, Melina, sam sisavath, the purge of babylon, vampires, Zombie Apocalypse

Melina's CBR7 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: action novel, CBR7, Melina, sam sisavath, the purge of babylon, vampires, Zombie Apocalypse ·
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