Pretty much every night, Conor wakes up screaming from the same nightmare. So when the monster shows up in his garden, just after midnight, he’s not as scared as you may have thought that he’d be. After all, he deals with some pretty unpleasant things on a daily basis. The bullies who pick on him in school. The fact that he seems to be falling out with his only friend. The teachers either ignoring him or being overly understanding and solicitous. His father, who seems […]
it would have been better for him if he’d died. . . .
This title is only 80 pages long and can easily be read cover to cover in one sitting. It is aimed at older teens and is a psychological thrill ride wound up in a short story. It is part of a collection of Dyslexia friendly titles produced by Barrington stoke. ( https://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/ ) What makes a book dyslexia friendly you ask? Well, the typeface, the layout and the colour of the paper stock all make it much much much easier for someone with dyslexia to read. […]
[Now with more dogs!] An Extinction Cycle short to hold us (me) over until Book 7 is released!
This is a short story to be read after Book six. Since I just finished book six, Amazon recommended this to me. I was deep in Extinction town at this point, so I downloaded it! It’s only five chapters and about eighty pages long, so it was a quick read. Don’t worry, it includes my favorite character (Apollo). Although he doesn’t get much to do, he does comfort Fitz, and the other soldiers. He comforted some kids that they rescued in Book six too. Basically […]
The Variants are back, and so is Apollo!
This is book six in the Extinction Cycle books. I read book five a few months ago, and then needed a little break from the bleak world of the Variants and the Juveniles and all the fighting. When I picked this book up (Kindle version natch), it took me a little while to get into it, for those very same reasons. Once I got going though, I couldn’t stop. I love the characters in this world. Also, Apollo is back. Once I saw he’d be […]