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Children of the Corn

February 7, 2016 by melanir Leave a Comment

This is the final book in Chuck Wendig’s Heartland Trilogy. And there is a part of me that is very glad to be finally done, but I don’t want you to think I didn’t enjoy it, because I did. I think I mentioned in a previous review, I am not fond of Wendig’s writing style, and so while I enjoyed the novel it just wasn’t my favorite. Honestly, I think if this ever gets turned into a movie I will eat it up. I loved […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: chuck wendig, Dystopian

melanir's CBR8 Review No:8 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: chuck wendig, Dystopian ·
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A GMO Built Wasteland

January 10, 2016 by melanir Leave a Comment

This is the second book in a trilogy, but I finished the first book in December of 2015, and thus it is not eligible. If you’re interested in this book, obviously you should probably look at the first one first.  I’m going to try to avoid spoilers for the first book here, but as this is a sequel and builds off of those events there are probably going to be at least a few. Before I start (and thus before the cut happens, so you […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: chuck wendig, dystopia

melanir's CBR8 Review No:2 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: chuck wendig, dystopia ·
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It was good! (mostly) Yay!

December 13, 2015 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was nervous about reading this book for a couple of reasons: Firstly, because there was a whole hullabaloo around it involving bigots upset at the reasonable portrayal of a diverse galaxy, and five year olds in the bodies of grown men (mostly) crying about the old Extended Universe being axed, and so they must automatically shun the new canon, as if the people writing those new books didn’t love the old books as much as they did and wouldn’t do their best to preserve as […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: aftermath, chuck wendig, journey to the force awakens, narfna, sci-fi, science fiction, space opera, star wars

narfna's CBR7 Review No:193 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: aftermath, chuck wendig, journey to the force awakens, narfna, sci-fi, science fiction, space opera, star wars ·
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