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Audiobook Review: The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

Posted on July 7, 2013 1 Comment

The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan First of all, let me get this out of my system: dead people aren’t tossing anything. They are being tossed. In my head, this book is more accurately titled The Wave-Tossed Dead. Secondly, this was an audiobook listen and while Tara Sands did a good job and her voice […]

July Book Club Read: The Drowning Girl

Posted on July 1, 2013 Leave a Comment

With the winners of the 2012 Nebula Award announced last month, members of the LeVar’s Rainbow Book Club selected The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan from the list of nominees. India Morgan Phelps – Imp to her friends – is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters […]

Book Review: The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey

Posted on June 29, 2013 Leave a Comment

The Curse of the Wendigo byRick Yancey I loved Rick Yancy’s The Monstrumologist so much (my review here) that I quickly picked up this one, the second book of the series. Now that I’ve finished it, I’d probably hesitate to say that it was as strong as its predecessor, but nevertheless I wasn’t disappointed. This […]

Book Review: World War Z by Max Brooks

Posted on June 22, 2013 Leave a Comment

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks The thing that sets this zombie story apart from the others I’ve experienced is right there in the title: WORLD War Z. So many other zombie stories are America-centric and work on the vague notion that the epidemic is occurring elsewhere in […]

Book Review: Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

Posted on June 20, 2013 3 Comments

Blackbirds byChuck Wendig Oh man, what can I say about Miriam Black? Funny how Chuck Wendig was able to hook me on his Blackbirds female protagonist the way he couldn’t with Mookie Pearl in The Blue Blazes, my first book by this author. I may have mentioned my aversion for rough, brutish, brawn-over-brains characters like […]

Book Review: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by

Posted on June 15, 2013 Leave a Comment

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay I picked up this book because I love the series. The premise of a serial killer killing other serial killers was just too interesting to pass up. You actually root for Dex, even though you know that he’s the bad guy as well. The beginning of this book was […]

Book Review: The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Posted on May 12, 2013 Leave a Comment

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey I won’t claim Young Adult speculative fiction as my main interest, though lately, it does feel like I’ve been on a YA kick. I like picking it up occasionally, but it always seems like my favorite books in the genre are the ones that can be enjoyed by all ages, the […]

Book~Film Comparison: Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko

Posted on May 6, 2013 Leave a Comment

Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko This book, along with the movie, was chosen for February 2012’s book club read based on the praise of some members who really loved the film. The premise involves the existence of supernatural beings, “Others,” who choose to ally themselves with the Light or the Dark. Both sides, through the […]

Book Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Posted on April 4, 2013 1 Comment

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan Mary doesn’t know a life that doesn’t involve the Unconsecrated (read: zombies). Mary doesn’t even know if there’s more life outside of her dreary existence in her village, but her heart tells her it’s so. She lives her life in a caged community run by a […]

Book Review: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Posted on March 28, 2013 5 Comments

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion It took me a while to finish this book. Two months to be precise. It wasn’t because I disliked the book. I loved it from the beginning, but I could tell it might make a little more emotional than I wanted at the time, so I set it aside for […]