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Darkness Falls

January 14, 2016 by Melina Leave a Comment

The fifth book in the Gone series by Michael Grant is Fear. Fear picks up about four months after the previous book so now the kids have been stuck in the FAYZ (a giant opaque bubble) for a year, surviving the best that they can with limited resources, all kinds of weird mutated animals, oh and an evil entity that needs a body in the hopes that it can be “born” and wreck havoc on the world outside of the FAYZ.  So yeah, the kids […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CBR8, fear. michael grant, Gone series, gone series book 5, Melina, sci-fi

Melina's CBR8 Review No:8 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: CBR8, fear. michael grant, Gone series, gone series book 5, Melina, sci-fi ·
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Never Read Books About Plagues When You’re Sick

January 11, 2016 by Melina Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #plague, CBR8, Melina, Michael Grant, sci-fi, YA lit

Melina's CBR8 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #plague, CBR8, Melina, Michael Grant, sci-fi, YA lit ·
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Sh*t Just Got Real

January 9, 2016 by Melina Leave a Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: CBR8, FAYZ, gone series book 3, lies, Melina, Michael Grant, sci-fi, YA lit

Melina's CBR8 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: CBR8, FAYZ, gone series book 3, lies, Melina, Michael Grant, sci-fi, YA lit ·
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Star Wars.

December 29, 2015 by narfna 10 Comments

Listen up, nerds. This book is for you. I had never heard of it until I read the lovely Emmalita’s review, and now I am eternally grateful to her. I absolutely devoured this book. It’s one of the most thorough and interesting behind the scenes books I’ve ever read. I’ve been all up in Star Wars since I was sixteen, but reading this book made me realize I really only knew the story part of that galaxy far, far away (including the Expanded Universe of novels). […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: behind the scenes, chris taylor, film, George Lucas, lucasfilm, narfna, Non-Fiction, sci-fi, star wars

narfna's CBR7 Review No:202 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: behind the scenes, chris taylor, film, George Lucas, lucasfilm, narfna, Non-Fiction, sci-fi, star wars ·
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If anything ever deserved the label ‘feminist as f***’, it’s this book.

December 29, 2015 by narfna 4 Comments

I don’t even really know what to say about this book, other than you should probably read it. I was a bit skeptical going in to Bitch Planet, despite glowing reviews, because I’d read Kelly Sue DeConnick’s other non-superhero ongoing comic, Pretty Deadly, earlier this year, and was pretty unimpressed with it at the least, actively turned off at worst. Still can’t decide which at this point. (The art was gorgeous, though.) But holy crap, I shouldn’t have been worried. This was AWESOME. Like, I […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Bitch Planet, dystopia, Extraordinary Machine, feminism, Kelly Sue DeConnick, narfna, Satire, sci-fi, science fiction, vol. 1

narfna's CBR7 Review No:200 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Bitch Planet, dystopia, Extraordinary Machine, feminism, Kelly Sue DeConnick, narfna, Satire, sci-fi, science fiction, vol. 1 ·
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YA readers should definitely check this out–you might like it better than I did.

December 19, 2015 by narfna Leave a Comment

I had medium expectations for this book, despite the almost overwhelmingly positive reviews from everyone I know who’s read it. Jay Kristoff’s writing never completely gels for me, but he’s always an interesting author, and the small writing issues I usually have with him don’t matter in the grand scheme, so I keep reading his stuff. The two books I’ve read by his co-author, Amie Kaufman, I haven’t been very impressed with. So I kept my expectations low on purpose. This turned out to be […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: amie kaufman, horror, illuminae, jay kristoff, narfna, sci-fi, science fiction, the illuminae files, Young Adult

narfna's CBR7 Review No:199 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: amie kaufman, horror, illuminae, jay kristoff, narfna, sci-fi, science fiction, the illuminae files, Young Adult ·
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