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Book 2 in Newsflesh

April 7, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Ok so this is book 2 for the Newsflesh trilogy.  I loooved book 1.  Book 2 was kind of a chore.  I listened to it on my library’s app.  Sometimes I feel like an audiobook swims or sinks based on the voice talent.  I know that’s not a revolutionary opinion, but hear me out.  I know The Girl with All the Gifts was a freaking awesome book.  Listening to Finty Williams read it made it nearly magical.  I loved it so hard.  I don’t think […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Mira Grant, Newsflesh, zombies

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Mira Grant, Newsflesh, zombies ·
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Back to ZOMBIES! Yay!!

March 27, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I loved this book. I really did. I just spent the last two and a half hours finishing it, because I couldn’t stop. I loved the characters. I loved the point of view. I loved the idea of the virus and where it came from. Ok, enough praise. If you’ve ever read Mira Grant and liked her, I suspect this book is for you. I started out last year with her Parasitology trilogy. I liked them a lot, and I kept hearing about the Newsflesh […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Mira Grant, Newsflesh, zombies

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Mira Grant, Newsflesh, zombies ·
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The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

I Believe the Zombie Children Are Our Future

March 21, 2017 by G.D. Giant 2 Comments

Or, at the very least, they are the future in M.R. Carey’s book, The Girl With All the Gifts. The book is about Melanie, zombie child extraordinaire. She’s being held, along with several other (albeit less extraordinary) zombie children, at a research facility in England.  At the facility, they attend classes, eat grubs and occasionally get dissected, all in the name of science.  Dr. Caldwell does the dissecting, and Helen Justineau does the teaching. Below is a song I “wrote” about their adventures (please to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: children are the absolute worst, dystopian future, horror, in the name of science, M.R. Carey, post-apocolyptic, soft sci-fi, Suspense, The Girl with All the Gifts, Zombie Apocalypse, zombies

G.D. Giant's CBR9 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: children are the absolute worst, dystopian future, horror, in the name of science, M.R. Carey, post-apocolyptic, soft sci-fi, Suspense, The Girl with All the Gifts, Zombie Apocalypse, zombies ·
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Titles, shmitels. He’s rich.

March 17, 2017 by ingres77 6 Comments

Stephen King is the undisputed master of horror. He’s written about everything from rabid dogs to aliens, to plagues that wipe out most of humanity; he’s covered ghosts, vampires, serial killers, and the visceral terror of evil manifested as a clown. Hell, he’s even covered machines coming to life with murderous intent. He’s done it all. But it took until 2006 for him to cover zombies? Weird. Especially considering that the real villain here doesn’t seem to be the zombified denizens of New England, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: Cell, Stephen King, zombies

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: Cell, Stephen King, zombies ·
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Round 2 of me reading book 2

December 6, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Ok, here goes round 2 of me reading book 2.  I did finish it this time!  It wasn’t that long, so I’m not sure what exciting thing was happening in my life 5 years ago that I couldn’t finish it.  I guess I just wasn’t reading books to raise money for cancer back then.  Silly me! So again, there are some editing mistakes, and the writing is a little clunky.  I looked this book up on Goodreads, and man do people have things to say […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: Alice, zombies

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:49 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: Alice, zombies ·
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Book 1 of the trilogy that I read book 3 of

December 6, 2016 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

OK, so Amazon doesn’t seem to have just book 1 of this trilogy as an option, so my link above is to the whole trilogy.  As I said in my Book 3 review, I already read book 1 a while ago, and then got stalled on book 2, and never made it to book 3.  So… I just read book 1 again.  I remember liking it, and I liked it again.  You have to take some things into consideration to enjoy the book though.  I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: Alice, zombies

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:48 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: Alice, zombies ·
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