This is a little bit like “Pleasantville” (or the Stepford Wives) meets “The XFiles” plus a police procedural with a touch of Horror. Hard to classify. Mona Bright is a troubled ex-cop who inherits her long dead mother’s home in Wink, New Mexico. She doesn’t know much about her mom – mental illness, suicide, not much more. Mom died a long time ago and the house only reverted to Mona after her fathers death. Turns out, that her mom used to work at the quantum research […]
Sudden Death Is a Normal Way of Life on Spatterjay…
Neal Asher is truly one of the greats when it comes to unique Science Fiction and “The Skinner” is at the top of that list. The story takes place on the planet of Spatterjay, a watery world that hosts extremely weird and vicious native fauna, all of which is infected with a virus that makes them virtually invulnerable to harm. Most of the few human inhabitants on the planet live in a protected “Dome” and avoid contact with the wildlife. If the wildlife doesn’t kill you, it will infect you with […]
“Go write me a thriller based on dark matter that doesn’t insult my intelligence”
“Go write me a thriller based on dark matter that doesn’t insult my intelligence” This is that book – definitely out of the ordinary and hard to put down. Our hero Robert is a physicist who, working on series of dark matter experiments, has come very close to a breakthrough. Suddenly his company’s funding is cut and he and his teammates finds themselves unemployed. Add to this his girlfriend Cora is going through her own trauma after recently losing her sister. She deals with this loss and Robert’s trauma […]
She’s a brick house. She’s mighty mighty and letting it all hang out to frighten you.
Oh. My. Gosh. This novel has been my albatross. I came across this book many years ago, borrowed from a friend. I tried to read it, but stalled out. I had my mother buy it for me for Christmas a few years ago and still was never able to conquer it. Yesterday, I was victorious. This is the most mesmerizing, confusing, terrifying, frustrating, wonderful novel that I have ever read. It is a literal and figurative labyrinth and the fact that a human brain could […]
Not the best of all possible books.
After thoroughly enjoying Redemption in Indigo, I picked up Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds with high hopes. Unfortunately, my hopes were not met. The Sadiri are a proud, reserved race — positively Vulcan. Their home planet is destroyed suddenly and thoroughly. The survivors reach out to the indigenous humanoids of Cygnus Beta, many of whom have Sadiri ancestry and therefore would make suitable mates. Our heroine, biotechnician Grace Delarua, is assigned to work with Dllenahkh, a Sadiri councilor, on a mission to find […]
A Love triangle tale of neurotic mind vigilantes
Justine suffers from near-incapacitating hypochondriac whose mother died from a rare disease everyone refused to believe she had. Damn good reason to have health anxieties, I say. She struggles through each day as if it’s her last in case that elusive vein will explode in her brain. But living on edge is almost too much for her hunky, yet simple-minded boyfriend, Cubby. That is until she meets Packard, a mysterious Turkish restaurant owner, who says he can save her hypochondriac self-implosion. Justine (and myself!) is skeptical to say the […]
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