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Vampires in Spaaace!

Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews

July 26, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

This book, which was originally intended as a novella, is book 4 in the Innkeeper Chronicles. While it’s not necessary to have read the entire series to fully appreciate this book, it might be helpful to at least have read book three, One Fell Sweep, where Maud and Arland meet for the first time. Official book description: Maud Demille is a daughter of Innkeepers—a special group who provide ‘lodging’ to other-planetary visitors—so she knows that a simple life isn’t in the cards. But even Maud could never have […]

The enemy’s gate is down

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

July 21, 2019 by crystalclear 7 Comments

This was the book my library chose to have as our Teen Book Club pick for the summer. It was my suggestion, both because it’s an awesome book and because we had multiple copies in our library. I was supposed to have a grand total of *one* teen show up today, and instead I got *zero.* Sadness. This was one of my favorite books in high school, enough that I read the sequels, which are weird AF. (My suggestion: skip them, and read the Ender’s […]

Don’t waste your time.

Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols

July 12, 2019 by Amanda Leave a Comment

Spoilers for this book, because I’m NOT recommending it and I very much would like y’all to know why. The blurb from Amazon is: An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian. That sounded intriguing and I’m always down for sci-fi thrillers, but this books so relentlessly stupid that I only finished […]

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Snowpiercer 2: The Explorers by Benjamin LeGrand and Jean-Marc Rochette

Snowpiercer 3: Terminus by Olivier Bocquet and Jean-Marc Rochette

July 9, 2019 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr11bingo Illustrated The Snowpiercer trilogy is an example of the whole being less than the sum of its parts. I was on board after the first volume. It hinted at some very interesting history for its main character Proloff, as well as complex, sinister military and political machinations that precipitated the endless, deadly winter that has engulfed the world and forced survivors onto the Snowpiercer, a perpetually moving train. The reader was left with a number of cliffhangers at the end of that volume. And […]

Mixed Bag of Newest Collection by Chiang, but Still Enjoyed

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

July 5, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Well, I think that all in all I had a mixed reaction to this newest collection of short stories by Chiang. Some were pitch perfect. Others went on too long and just had a garbled message in my opinion. I still love how he talks about things such as fate, faith, love, and even touches upon how technological advancements does not always equal making things better for human beings or other species. Per usual, here are my individual ratings for the short stories. “The Merchant […]

“Once upon a time, a girl did the impossible, but she did it just a little too late.”

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

June 28, 2019 by Malin 1 Comment

Spoiler warning! While I’m going to try very hard not to spoil THIS book in my review, this is the second book in a duology, and it will be impossible for me to write about the book without spoiling events and plot for book 1, Strange the Dreamer. Both books are absolutely wonderful, so you should absolutely check them out, if you haven’t already. But seriously, there will be plot spoilers for book one in the coming paragraphs, so go away if you’re not caught up: In the […]

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