Upon deciding to pick up this book because you loved Ready Player One, kindly disregard all hopes and dreams of a Ready Player One Part Deux. It is not a sequel, follow up, or companion piece, and to expect such will leave you disappointed. Plot synopsis: Zack Lightman is a high-school guy with an obsession with all things sci-fi and video-game related. He’s a dreamer, a classic underachiever, and not really one of the cool kids in his class. He spends his days playing Armada and Terra […]
I’ll Trade You the Moon
This is a tough book to rate- there are things I really enjoyed about the writing and the story, and things that made me want to shake the characters nearly to death. Basic Plotline: Jude and Noah are twins living with a magical mother (and grandmother), and their scientifically-minded father (the artichoke). The story opens with Noah’s arc beginning at age 13. Noah is a quiet loner who is obsessed with art, and getting into the art high school nearby, when he falls in love […]
Death becomes her
Oh, Nora Roberts, why can’t I quit you? Change your name, “change” your genre, it matters not- I’m yours. Ceremony in Death, the fifth in the In Death series, is perhaps the quirkiest of the series thus far. This time Detective Eve Dallas is thrust into a murder investigation involving black/white magic, a fellow officer’s death, and the occult. Oh, my! Unfortunately, she is also forced to keep her mentor/father-figure/friend, Fenney, at arms length due to an internal affairs investigation. That also means her charming, […]
Here be Monsters!
As the 5th in the Monster Hunter series, one might obviously, and correctly, assume I am a fan of Larry Correia’s Monster Hunting world. I stumbled upon this series and the Grimnoir (which was fantastic, in the actual sense of the word), and haven’t turned back since. A brief synopsis of the series as a whole: Monsters exist in nearly every stripe: vampires, werewolves, succubi, zombies, golems, etc. You think of some tale you’ve heard sitting around the campfire, and they exist. Luckily there are […]