Book reviews
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Review of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and shorter reviews of the rest of the series. Properly the most famous dystopian YA from the aughts. I didn’t read them until the movies came out, to see what all the fuss was about – and boy did I see what the fuss was about! If…
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The Time Traveler’s Wife
Review of The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. A time travel romance where the PoV lives their life out of order. It has many of the same trappings as Doctor Who and River Song story… Spoilers!
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The Magic Ex Libris series by Jim C. Hines
Review of the first two books in the series Magic Ex Libris by Jim C. Hines: Libriomancer & Codex Born. The urban fantasy series is all about the power of stories. It’s a fun rump that reads like a excellent roleplaying series.
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Feed by Mira Grant
Review of Feed by Mira Grant. Feed is a political near future sci-fi thriller that follows a group of bloggers on the campaign train after the zombie apocalypse. A new normal has been established and people are self isolating in their home.
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Glitter & Mayhem
Review of the anthology Glitter & Mayhem – “the most glamorous party in the multiverse. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror tales of roller rinks, nightclubs, glam aliens, party monsters, drugs, sex, glitter, and debauchery”.
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METAtropolis
Review of the shared world anthology series METAtropolis. The future is changed when the US fall apart into smaller city states and out of those ashes a new SolarPunk world is born. The stories are all about the intersections between technology, climate change, economy and new social structures.
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Sorcery and Cecelia
Review of Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer set in a magical regency England. The young adult novel takes the form of letters written between Kate and Cecelia. They write to each other about their lives, love, marriage and solving a mystery.
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William Monk by Anne Perry
Review of William Monk by Anne Perry. The first book in historical fiction series, the William Monk, is called The Face of a Stranger and is set in London in the 1856.
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Parasite by Mira Grant
Review of Parasite by Mira Grant. Parasite is a near future medical thriller set “A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite – a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation.”
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The Finishing School series: Etiquette and Espionage and Curtsies and Conspiracies
Review of Etiquette and Espionage, Curtsies & Conspiracies and the rest of the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger. Sophronia is sent of to an unusual finishing school, where she learns spy craft and have wonderful adventures with her friends and a steampunk dog.