On this my third reading of this book, I thought I’d try something a little bit different for the review. It was either this or wax poetic like the ex-graduate student that I am, and nobody here wants to read that. (Not to mention, they don’t let you curse in graduate level writing, which is one of the many reasons I decided not to do that sort of thing anymore.) – – – Dear Mrs. Reed, You are a dick. In the parlance of your time, […]
A Well Spun Yarn
Wool is one of those futuristic, dystopian, post-apocolytpic, insert your own buzzword here, type books that I’m sure is packaged as a three-book series…(checking internets)…yep, it’s called the Silo Series and also includes the novels Shift and Dust. Despite my sarcasm, this was a book I couldn’t set down many times. The novel started as a short story that was released by Amazon for the Kindle in 2011. Due to its popularity, Howey continued writing and amassed a three book collection in two years. Basically […]
Countdown City
If you knew the world was going to end, that you and everyone else had only 74 days left to live, what would you do? Would you hunker down, hoard what you could and hope for the best? Abandon everything you knew and run for the nearest beach? Or perhaps set up residence at a library and read as fast and furiously as possible, pausing only to sleep on the floor next to the pile of books you’d never got around to reading? For Hank […]
Rivers of Sorrow
A series of escalating hurricanes and non-stop rain have left the south east US devastated and abandoned. A line has been drawn, and anything south of that is now lawless no-man’s land. This is a soggy, chilled read where one man’s solitude and hopelessness is reflected in the land around him. His underlying decency first bring him to the edge of ruin, then give him a reason to live. As he finds a suffering group of people that he needs to save, he ultimately saves […]
A Series of Unfortunate Brothers
Last week I had a headache, and I turned off the TV, and turned on my Kindle, onto which I had previously downloaded The Governess Affair, at some point when Amazon was giving it away. And then I spent the rest of the day, and much of the night, reading the entire rest of the series. Which I know is Amazon’s sly marketing ploy – “Reel them in with one story and the simplest ‘One click here to buy the next book’ tactic” – but, […]
Who Decides What Broken Really Is?
(Note: I got a pre-release e-version of this book via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.) One of the things I didn’t know when I was reading is that this book is classified as New Adult Romance, making it, technically the first book I’ve read in that genre (that’s been labeled that way). I guess I knew that this was a whole new descriptor for books now – post high-school, mainly college, generally still confused about everything characters – and this book definitely fits […]