Originally posted 2017-05-23 17:00:20. I’m a bit concerned that the only books that I seem to even vaguely enjoy anymore tend to be Young Adult. I use “enjoy” loosely, because I certainly didn’t love My Heart and Other Black Holes, but I did like it, which I’ll take at this point. Jasmine Warga’s stab at the…
Originally posted 2017-05-20 12:00:10. The Mourning Hours is the story of a wrongly accused boy. Everyone turns their back on him, his life is ruined, and the truth only comes out when he is well into middle age. Then, everyone apologetically claims that they believed in him all along. The behavior of the community and…
Originally posted 2017-05-16 17:00:04. I saw a commercial for a new show on Fox called Wayward Pines. M. Night Shymalon is the executive producer, and although his films are generally pretty hit or miss with me, his involvement here piqued my curiosity. First things first, though – the series is based on a book trilogy, so…
Originally posted 2017-05-13 12:00:42. I came across Nathan Balingrud’s North American Lake Monsters on a Bookriot list titled “5 Books That Are Legit Nightmare Fuel,” by Rachel Weber. Conveniently, I had been in desperate need of some “nightmare fuel,” so to Amazon I went. I don’t know that I would label these stories as scary in a…
Originally posted 2017-05-09 17:00:48. The entire time I was reading The Bullet, I kept thinking, “This is just too good to be true.” It almost was, but the last fifty pages or so proved my original sentiment to be correct. The concluding chapters were just not what I had expected, and not in a good way….
Originally posted 2017-05-06 12:00:32. A Scattered Life was very strange in that it was not at all what I expected, although I’m not entirely sure what I expected it to be. I won’t go so far as to say that I hated it, but I don’t really get what the point of it was. I…
Originally posted 2017-05-01 20:00:45. Title: Kushiel’s Dart Author: Jacqueline Carey Published: September 5th 2003 by Tor Fantasy Pages: 1015 Genre:Fantasy/ Young Adult / High Fantasy/ Adult/ Fiction/ Romance Series: Kushiel’s Universe #1 Kid Friendly Rating: 18+ Not for children Synopsis: The land of Terre d’Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It…
Originally posted 2017-03-31 17:00:23. Title: Moon Called Author: Patricia Briggs Published: January 31st 2006 Pages: 288 Genre:Fantasy/ Young Adult / High Fantasy/ Adult/ Fiction/ Romance/ Paranormal Series: Mercy Thompson series #1 Kid Friendly Rating: PG 13 Synopsis: Mercedes “Mercy” Thompson is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens…
Originally posted 2017-03-21 17:00:23. I fully expected to hate Jon Harrison’s The Banks of Certain Rivers, but I absolutely loved this book!! Hahahahaha, I know no one actually believed that. We all know by now that that sort of miracle rarely happens to me, if ever. So yeah, I didn’t hate it, but I far from…
Originally posted 2017-03-18 12:00:19. Jackie and her veterinarian wife, Paula, move to a new town with their slew of foster kids. Ok, so there’s only three foster kids, but any more than one is definitely a slew to me. They have a cranky neighbor lady with a horse, and a foster daughter that habitually sneaks…
Possessed children are creepy. This is an accepted fact throughout literature and film, as evidenced by The Exorcist, The Possession, and a plethora of other books and movies. What adds to the overall appeal of these sorts of stories is that they often claim to be based on fact. I won’t delve into a religious tirade regarding…
Ian Colmes is struggling to move on with his life following the brutal abduction and murder of his five-year-old son, Alex. Ian can’t seem to pull it together – he has trouble getting to work on time, his wife, Alina, has left him, and he keeps seeing his dead son throughout his empty house. Sure…
It is the early 1920s and Tom Sherbourne and his wife Isabelle live alone on the Australian island of Janus, where Tom manages the lighthouse there. It is a difficult life of isolation, and Izzy is heartsick for a child after suffering three miscarriages. Then, a boat washes up on the island containing a dead…
I love Cujo. I don’t take the word love lightly, and I rarely apply it to anything, let alone a book. Mind you, I do have a soft spot in my heart for Stephen King; sometimes I absolutely hate his work, but more often than not I am left with something to think about – Cujoleft me with a…
As suggested by the title, this novel made me amazingly hungry – as in my stomach growled the entire time I was reading it. Everyone in this book is hungry all of the time; and if they’re not hungry, they are gorging themselves with food to the point that you feel obligated to eat, for…