Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr is the baddest of bad asses. She strictly follows military protocol but can make a general feel like an idiot and a new second lieutenant toe her line while doing so. She is competent and smart and snarky and fucking wonderful. She’s got no time for your bullshit and it’s the best. If you read Valor’s Choice and don’t love Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr, we can’t be friends any more. “But, Amanda, what is Valor’s Choice about?” you might ask. Well, […]
The Last Man on Mars is Super Quippy. Also. In Mortal Danger…dun-dun-duuuun!
It is not often that a book about a man stranded on Mars could take place just about anywhere – but The Martian by Andy Weir could. In The Martian we meet Mark Watney the only man left on Mars due to a freak accident and misunderstanding. But this is merely a setup for a battle between Man and the elements of Mars. And if anyone stands a chance it’s Watney – the engineer of the space crew that abandoned him. The book does not […]
The Apollo Academy
In the mood for some new adult sci-fi with a brilliant ass-kicking heroine? Of course you are! Kimberly P. Chase’s The Apollo Academy is the first book of a promising new series about Aurora Titon, an heiress who’s training to be a shuttle pilot for lunar missions. She may, in fact, be the best pilot the Academy has ever trained — assuming she survives her first semester, since someone is apparently trying to kill her.
A scary, political, techno-thrilling ride of a book.
I think I might be too stupid to write this review. Long story short: This book was a hell of a ride. It was slightly problematic as a novel, but damn if it wasn’t powerful anyway. It should probably be required reading. Long story long? Weeeeeellll. That’s when my brain starts to make whirring and booping noises and then I want to put my laptop away and go to sleep. Or eat a milkshake. Either one of those things, really. Marcus Yallow is a seventeen […]
What if superheroes were the bad guys?
Firefight is the second book in prolific wunderkind* Brandon Sanderson’s YA series, The Reckoners, which is about what would happen if the world suddenly developed superheroes, only the superheroes were all of them evil, power-hungry, maniacal psychopaths. The Reckoners are a group of normal people (well, mostly) dedicated to bringing down those superheroes, called Epics in this world. Nineteen year old David is our protagonist and POV into this world. When he was a kid, he watched as infamous Epic Steelheart killed his father, and he […]
Down in the Meat
I thoroughly enjoyed this series and plan to re-read it. Nanotechnology, mind control, global domination, wheels within wheels, double crosses and the grotesque reality of the human body as ecosystem. Wonderful. BZRK is set in the near future. We start with Sadie and Noah, two kids from totally different worlds. Noah is hand-to-mouth in London, reeling from the loss of his big brother to mental illness. Sadie is wealthy in New York, on a date at Big Sporting Event. In one of the most interesting […]
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