Texas Dracula. But also a murder mystery and police procedural. So the new Stephen King is pretty much the old Stephen King in terms of subject-matter, the plot and narrative, and even a recurring character (whose cameo I was not so sure about…but it turned out ok). And the result of familiarity mixed with 2018’s general sense of things (there’s an AIR of Trump in this novel, but not that much)…and the significant change of setting makes this is a solid book in general. It’s […]
Well, this was a book.
I’ve owned this book in hardcover since it was first published in 2006. Every once in a while over the last twelve years or so, I’ve looked at it and thought, oh I should read that, and then proceeded to not do that. This was in my college years, when I bought books a) Just because they were pretty, b) When I couldn’t afford them, and c) Indiscriminately, without doing any research about them. I had not read any Stephen King yet, at all, either, so yeah, let’s buy this […]
The kids are all right
So this is book 2 of the Darkest Minds trilogy. We saw at the end of the first book that Ruby went back to the Children’s League to protect Liam and to save Chubs’ life. She’s joined a team, and they go on missions and ops and try to fight against the president. Ruby actually does learn a lot from her training. She becomes a better fighter, and she’s learning how to better control her powers. However, they’re basically making her torture people for information […]
Episode 1-20: But Is It Really Your Story To Tell?
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/05/23/episode-1-20-but-is-it-really-your-story-to-tell/ Wherein I review: 72. And The Rest is History (St. Mary’s Chronicles #8) by Jodi Taylor 73. Final Girls by Riley Sager 74. Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff 75. An Argumentation of Historians (St. Mary’s Chronicles #9) by Jodi Taylor 76. You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann I leave behind time travel and plunge into horror. I ponder whether as white straight men, if we have the right to tell certain stories. And while Final Girls didn’t leave me gasping, Lovecraft Country blew […]
If you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening.
I finished the first book of this series back in January and quite liked it, but wasn’t quite ready to pick up the rest of the series. Fast forward a few months and I decide to mainline books 2 through 5. I liked the rest of the books, though I think they may have suffered a bit for being read back to back. There is a definite structure that the books follow and by the third book I started to get a bit bored with […]
“There’s nothing like a few severed heads to take your mind off politics…”
“It’s a cruel, cruel world. And the people are the worst part…” Dread Nation invites its readers to imagine an alternate history of the United States. During the terrible years of the Civil War the dead began to rise. They feasted upon the living changing them into zombies, or shamblers, as they prefer here. The war was set aside to focus on the more pressing threat. The slaves were set free, but still weren’t given much freedom. Young black men and women were sent to […]
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