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Hunting vampires is always a dangerous business

Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1) by Laurell K. Hamilton

December 28, 2021 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I’ve had Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton on my shelf for several years. This is the first book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. As a lover of vampires and urban fantasy, I have been curious since it’s been around a long time. I finally decided to pick it up for Dewey’s readathon. One of the bingo challenges was to read the oldest book on your to-be-read shelf. The story introduces us to Anita Blake who is a private investigator. She is licensed to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Anita Blake, anita blake series, ghouls, Laurell K. Hamilton, Urban Fantasy, vampire hunters, vampires, zombies

teresaelectro's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Anita Blake, anita blake series, ghouls, Laurell K. Hamilton, Urban Fantasy, vampire hunters, vampires, zombies ·
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Race, Zombies and US History

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

October 26, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

I read and reviewed Dread Nation a couple of years ago but felt that I needed to do a re-read to refresh my memory before starting book 2 — Deathless Divide. In these novels, Justina Ireland imagines the US in the period immediately following the Civil War but with a strange twist. At the Battle of Gettysburg, the war ended when the battlefield dead rose up as zombies or shamblers, forcing Union and Rebel soldiers to work together against the undead. A new kind of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR13, Deathless Divide, Dread Nation, ElCicco, Fiction, Justina Ireland, zombies

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:59 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, CBR13, Deathless Divide, Dread Nation, ElCicco, Fiction, Justina Ireland, zombies ·
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When the End Comes

Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura

Cell by Stephen King

April 15, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I recently read two books with apocalyptic overtones. Neither were great but both were eminently readable, if weird and unfocused… Cult X * Well then. It’s almost impossible for a book as popular as Fuminori Nakamura’s Cult X to get anything less than a 3+ star rating on GoodReads. A book usually has enough vociferous defenders who give it gratuitous 5s to put it over the top. That this one was hovering at 2.97 when I picked it up was not a good sign for […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: apocalypse, Cell, crime, cult x, cults, Fuminori Nakamura, Japan, Stephen King, zombies

Jake's CBR13 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: apocalypse, Cell, crime, cult x, cults, Fuminori Nakamura, Japan, Stephen King, zombies ·
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If 28 Days Later and The Road had a daughter

The Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff

March 18, 2021 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

This was Round 2 of my ongoing “what’s going in in the world of Irish science fiction?” quest. (Round 1 was here.) First off: great title, no? I was instantly intrigued, especially with the description, and I liked this weird sense I was getting of the post-apocalypse as a site of feminist possibility rather than just endless misogyny and threatened sexual violence. (Sigh.) The premise is straightforward: Orpen lives with her mother and her mother’s partner, Maeve, on an isolated island off the coast of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Ireland, Post Apocalyptic, Sarah Davis-Goff, zombies

tiny_bookbot's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Ireland, Post Apocalyptic, Sarah Davis-Goff, zombies ·
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Did not expect to love a book about zombies

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

December 21, 2020 by Malin 6 Comments

4.5 stars Official book description: The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, cbr12, ensemble cast, horror, Malin, Max Brooks, World War Z, zombies

Malin's CBR12 Review No:82 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, cbr12, ensemble cast, horror, Malin, Max Brooks, World War Z, zombies ·
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Post Apocalyptic Comfort

World War Z by Max Brooks

September 9, 2020 by caragwapa 2 Comments

Is it weird that World War Z is one of my comfort reads? I rarely reread books. I get anxious when I’m rereading because I keep thinking that I should be reading something new. I mean, my to be read list is not getting any shorter. World War Z is one of the few books that I have reread more than once. The others are The Drifters by James Michener, A Ring of Endless Light by L’Engle and Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: caragwapa, cbr12, Max Brooks, post apocalytpic, zombies

caragwapa's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: caragwapa, cbr12, Max Brooks, post apocalytpic, zombies ·
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