Review:I cannot express how much I enjoyed this book. I was in high school during the 80's, so reading this brought me right back to my teenage years. I loved the pop culture references and the fact that the chapter titles were 80's song titles. The book begins and ends with yearbook pages which I read both before I read the main story and then went back and read after to see what character names I recognized in the yearbook signings.

The pop culture references and neat packaging aside, this is... Read more

Review:This story will contain some spoilers to prove a point. The story is mixing our present world into a fantasy real. The Marine Gunnery Sergeant seems to be written good but has a couple of flaws in the development. When Gunny leaves his post to strike out on his own he violates everything that a Marine would do. His own troops disagree with him but salute him leaving. That is so abnormal it borders on insane. The Gunny was a patriot but despite 99% of the population not figuring out the lights we... Read more

Review:Hunter by Eden Summers is an entertaining book that will have you hooked from the first words until the last. The plot is engaging, well written and the characters so well written that a connection is almost instantly formed. Once you start reading this book, it's practically impossible to put it down. In what can be considered a monotonous world of romance, Eden Summers brings a fresh, gripping, up beat and at times heartwrenching perspective that is reinvigorating and exhilarating.

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Review:Absolutely awesome book series. Easy to keep up with. As you read you can't help but relate to the normal human issues. As I read I would get anxious to see how the story would end and it did not disappoint. Looking forward to the next book. Read more

Review:Not a typical fantasy and starts off with more of a colonial military approach, which is usually not something I am interested in reading. However the more I read the more interested I was in the characters and story development and towards the end you start to encounter more of the fantasy aspects. Nevertheless, even without the fantasy aspects it was a very enjoyable read and look forward to reading the next installment. Read more

Review:Strange Weather, the latest offering from Joe Hill, is four books in one! Collected here are four novellas, united by the theme of weather (sometimes strongly, other times more subtly), with the stories running the gamut of apocalyptic rain to raging wildfires.

Hill hits the ground running with Snapshot, an eerie little coming-of-age tale revolving around a supernatural Polaroid camera. I was worried at first that this would be Hill riffing again on his father, Stephen King, who wrote his... Read more

Review:Well-crafted, taut personal drama that offers interesting insights and kept my attention throughout, making me wonder how it would all actually play out. The heroine is nothing special in herself, but she makes you root for her as she slowly begins to take charge of her life. Read more

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The Jennifer Morgue, the second novel in Charles Stross’ LAUNDRY FILES, is a science fiction spy thriller that’s an obvious homage to Ian Fleming and H.P. Lovecraft. Bob has been sent to the Caribbean to try to find out why Ellis Billington, an evil megalomaniac billionaire, is interested in The Jennifer Morgue, a place deep in the ocean which may be an access point into our universe by tentacled eldritch horrors... Read more

Review:Stross does it again, combining wit, humor, and horror into a fun little short story that had me grinning like a loon and left me with the creeps. But really, did you need someone to tell you to to read another Laundry Files story? Read more

Review:Excellent addition to the Laundry files, tying up recent forays into other POV characters with Bob Howard. I have mild complaints about too many characters and not enough Bob even here, but it is nothing that should keep someone from reading this entry in the series! Read more