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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

December 29, 2018 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline was a more recent CBR9 book exchange gift. The backlash for the book was pretty intense, but with the recent film adaptation, I was curious to read it for myself. Thus, I was glad my Mocha Girls Read book club picked it for our white male author theme. I ended up finishing it over 4th of July and surprisingly enjoyed the pop culture filled story. The story follows Wade on an epic quest to essentially save the internet from a fascist capitalist demise. A genius programmer, Halliday created The Oasis, a virtual world so amazing […]

12/29/2018 teresaelectro's CBR10 Review No:16 |

John Scalzi is reliably fascinating

Lock In by John Scalzi

October 20, 2016 by ingres77 4 Comments

This was my second attempt to read this book, and I’m glad I gave it another go. I haven’t been let down by Scalzi before, and Lock In was no different. This is a fairly typical Scalzi novel, in that the world is well developed and multi-layered. From what I’ve read of him (Redshirts, the Old Man’s War series, and The Dispatchers), he’s very adept at centering his stories around a big idea, and this is no different. Set in the future, a disease has ravaged the world. One percent of all people suffer from “lock in”, or Haden’s Syndrome. […]

10/20/2016 ingres77's CBR8 Review No:93 |

This is war. Chaos. Chance. Death.

Golden Son (The Red Rising Trilogy, Book 2) by Pierce Brown

July 16, 2016 by borisanne 2 Comments

I cannot emphasize enough how much I am loving the Red Rising series. I’m pre-grieving my reading and finishing of the next and final book. But, I’m also so addicted that as soon as the library checks it out to me, I’m going to devour it. This is dystopian fiction at its finest: fully fleshed out, incredibly exciting, completely believable, deeply poetic. The protagonist, Darrow has my heart. He’s driven, he’s thoughtful, he’s pure but emotional, and he’s young and beautiful. The villains of the story (I won’t get into much detail here, because, spoilers) are scary and heart-breaking. And […]

7/16/2016 borisanne's CBR8 Review No:29 |

When we finally learn to time travel, it will probably be just as boring as this

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

May 31, 2016 by borisanne 3 Comments

On paper, this book is the complete package for me: time travel, a mysterious epidemic, a spunky female protagonist, academia, Christmas. I should have loved it. But it was a little… um…. super duper incredibly boring. I’m really looking forward to the Book Club conversation about this, because it would be nice to put my finger on why I didn’t just totally love it. There’s plenty of action, but it’s very repetitive, and never feels like it’s going anywhere. No build, just introduction of characters, interaction of those characters, and abrupt resolution. I’m no editor and couldn’t tell you how […]

5/31/2016 borisanne's CBR8 Review No:20 |

No spiders, but some dying at the end

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong

January 15, 2016 by Bothari43 6 Comments

I liked John Dies at the End, and I loooved This Book is Full of Spiders, so I was very excited to get David Wong’s new book for Christmas. It is, as expected, bonkers and great. I think he’s growing up a little. This book is a little less Beavis & Butthead and a little more…I don’t know…Christopher Moore? There’s a bigger story, and a little less teenage boy nonsense, but there’s still a lot of humor, and still a lot of me pausing and thinking “this man’s brain is a very weird place.” In the not-too-distant future, a bunch […]

1/15/2016 Bothari43's CBR8 Review No:1 |

Professional athlete of the future turns superhero

Mara by Brian Wood, Ming Doyle, Jordie Bellaire, Clayton Cowles

December 30, 2014 by teresaelectro 3 Comments

This is my last review of the year (and the day)! By some miracle of will power, I met my half-cannonball goal despite only starting reviews last month. Must do better next year, for realz. My final post is for Mara, a YA graphic novel set in the future where professional sports is an even bigger business. Sport competitions keep everyone distracted from the endless world war cycle of Earth. Mara is superstar volleyball player whose been training since she was 2 years old! Barely legal, she lives in comped luxury apartment with tons of corporate endorsements. That is until one day, she […]

12/30/2014 teresaelectro's CBR6 Review No:26 |

Robot Love

The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee

December 30, 2014 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

The Silver Metal Lover was a great introduction to Tanith Lee for me. This particular month, Vaginal Fantasy focused on a robot theme with authors questioning the power of love with an artificial being. This particular love story is about a young, naive rich girl named Jane. She lives a pretty sheltered life in a beautiful mansion in the sky with her mother. All her friends are jaded and mean, living quite the hedonistic lifestyle on their parents money. One day while walking with her gay friend Clovis, she comes across a beautiful silver skinned man named Silver singing in the street. He transfixes her with his […]

12/30/2014 teresaelectro's CBR6 Review No:23 |

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Leedock on This Book is Just Mad & I Enjoyed Every MomentMy pleasure! So glad you liked it. It really is one of the most delightful books that I have read all year.

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