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There is literally no place in American history that’ll be awesome for me.

Kindred by Octavia Butler

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REVIEW OF BOTH KINDRED (Octavia E. Butler) & DREAD NATION (Justina Ireland) It was just by chance that I happened to read Dread Nation and Kindred at the same time, but it was hard not to draw parallels between the two books.  Issues of gender, power, and the complexities of race as well as strong female narrators bind the two across the vast distance of their publication dates. Both books have interesting layers, and comparing and contrasting them would make a great literary analysis essay, but as Trevor Noah would say, “Ain’t nobody got time for that.” Instead, here are some […]

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7/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

A gift that keeps on giving

The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

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I’m finally getting around to reading one of the books I got in last year’s book exchange!  (And a book I am currently lending to a coworker!)  I like it, but it’s not quite what I was expecting. It kind of reminds me of Isaac Asimov’s short story “The Ugly Little Boy.” In that story, scientists have pulled a Neanderthal child from the past to study it, almost like they are studying the children in The Girl With All the Gifts.     Basically, the world has gone to shit.  Not surprisingly. Humanity has been infected with a fungus that […]

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7/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

A Tamer Lucifer than Tom Ellis

Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey

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Given the intricacy and violence of the other two books in the series I’ve read, I was a little surprised at how tame Lucifer actually was in Kill the Dead. I was all ready for some kind of intricate, elaborate super-scheme when the devil hires Stark at the end of Sandman Slim for bodyguard duty. The only thing for most of the novel that Lucifer seemed to be up to was actually supervising his biopic and using that as an excuse to stay away from the potential political trouble in Hell. In terms of story, really all he seemed to […]

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6/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

Don’t Expect Logical Actions from Racists

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

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Thank you so much to caitycat! I doubt I would have stumbled across this novel without her review, and I thoroughly enjoyed it despite some minor complaints about potential red herrings or loose threads. The novel is set near Baltimore in 1880.  The North never won the Civil War because of the zombie outbreak that followed the Battle of Gettysburg, leading to a quick reconciliation between the two sides to face the common threat to the survival of humanity.  Slaves were declared free, but, for many, there is not much difference between their former lives and current – they don’t […]

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6/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:112 |

I really wanted to like this, but…

Dust by Joan Frances Turner

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So this book was suggested to me by someone (I think here in one of my other zombie book reviews, or maybe over on Pajiba).  I bought the audiobook from Amazon, and started listening to it a few weeks ago when my carpool partner was away for two weeks.  Like I said in my title – I really wanted to like it.  Unfortunately, it never really grabbed me.  The idea was solid, and I don’t know if it was just the writing style, or the plot that I nearly hated.  It was read by Eva Amurri, and I love her […]

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6/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

“There’s nothing like a few severed heads to take your mind off politics…”

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

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“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 special schools to be trained to fight the undead, as they were thought to have […]

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5/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Post-Apocalyptic Tale of Wonder

The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

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I’ve been meaning to read The Girl with All the Gifts since the film came out last year. As usual, I kept putting it off until one of my book clubs assigned it. This was voted as the Mocha Girls Read supernatural pick for October. I read nearly half of it in one day, finally finished it up in December. I’m glad that I did, still a wild ride despite hearing spoilers during the in person discussion. I’m not a fiercely against them when it comes to books. The majority of the book is seen through the eyes of a young […]

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12/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:7 |

Not that bad until the end

Ella the Slayer by A. W. Exley

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Cinderella meets zombies.  There’s your synopsis in three words.  But for the most part, it’s a lot more than that. Exley doesn’t just stick zombies in your stereotypical Cinderella story.  She explains what the characters know about how the zombies (or vermin, or turned) came to be.  The story takes place in England during the aftermath of World War I.  While the shell shocked men are coming home from war, a devastating bout of ‘influenza’ sweeps the country, killing millions.  Only they don’t stay dead.  They return, intent on feeding on their living countrymen.  With the men either dead or […]

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12/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:22 |


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