So, I quite enjoyed the first book in Moss’ Fear Saga, Fear the Sky. I thought it was a fairly unique take on the alien invasion story, and was built around the foreboding notion that we would be able to watch the encroachment of our doom for a solid 10 years leading up to the armada’s arrival. The fact that it was structured like an espionage/spy thriller sold me on the series, despite qualms over relatively bland, uninteresting characters. Fear the Survivors continues in much […]
Heroism comes in all forms in this exquisite WWII story
This book is beautiful, horrifying and a must read. It is a WWII story with two main characters—a young blind French girl who flees with her brilliant father, a locksmith for the Parisian Museum of Natural History, from the occupied French capital to outlying Saint-Malo, and an orphaned German child prodigy who gets caught up in the Nazi war machine which slowly crushes the light in him. Marie-Laure lives in worlds created by her doting father, but when he is taken from her and she […]
Amped met with too many ohms
I enjoyed Amped. I previously read Robopocalypse and I liked thought I’d give it a shot as a quick break between my non-fiction audiobooks. Amped gave me exactly that. In fact I was straight HOOKED after the first few chapters but it faded as I continued. Amped starts with a schoolteacher named Owen Gray who has a device implanted in his brain. Owen was in an accident as a child and developed epilepsy as a result. His implant prevents seizures and allows him to function […]
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