After Winter’s Bone, I went on a steady diet of what I call Midwestern Gothic. Just brutal jaw-cracking asskickery set in the flyover states hugging the Mississippi River. This is the first of the Bayou Trilogy, featuring former boxer/police detective Rene Shade and the shady denizens of St. Bruno. This story is about those small town big fish pulling strings and popping heads with shotguns.
Uncle Stevie’s Very Own Dick!
Guess the bookamajigger wants me to kick out some Stephen King! And lo and behold, Uncle Stevie wrote himself a detective procedural! Which works. JK Rowling did it, and probably a little better, but it’s still an interesting diversion. Half the book deals with Bill Hodges, a retired detective who has gone fat on a diet of daytime television and the possible injection of his service revolver. He’s reenergized when he gets a letter from Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes Killer who mercilessly ran down folks […]
Pandora Didn’t Ask for the Box
Malin’s review of The Girl with all the Gifts inspired me to read it (as with many of the books from my CBR this year, because you all write such intriguing reviews). I was not disappointed by the suggestion of this book, it was such a fresh and inventive book that I think will stick with me for a bit. It was horror in the lightest sense of the word, most of the horror has already occurred…and then again, much of the horror is only […]
Yet another YA endeavor…
If you’re in the mood for another YA dystopian novel, this might quench your thirst. With so many to choose from, what Reboot offers is a quick, easy read with a twist on the zombie genre…but zombie novel it is not. Wren one-seventy-eight died five years ago. But, as is common with children who contract the mysterious KDH virus, she revived, or rebooted. As her name suggests, she didn’t reboot until 178 minutes after her death, a long time compared with other reboots. As a […]