I should really know better than to choose books just because they’re on sale, but The Plagiarist lured me with the $2 audiobook price tag. Lesson learned. Whatever you do, don’t listen to the audiobook version of this story. The narrator was so incredibly annoying that it couldn’t help factoring into my enjoyment of the book. The Plagiarist is a novella about Adam Griffey. He’s a plagiarist, but not in the traditional sense of the word. He teaches English by day and at night he […]
Separation made my heart grow colder
Two years ago I read, and loved, Wool, the first book in the Silo Trilogy. I bought the follow-up on Kindle. And then… I just never read it. Until a month ago, when I really took notice of it just sitting untouched in my Kindle library and thought, dang, I should really read this book! So with that in mind, understand that by sitting on it for so long, I lost all of my interest and I couldn’t get it back, and that’s possibly causing me to […]
The Way Out
It’s been a long time since I was so thoroughly sucked into a fictional universe as I was with Wool. Honestly, that’s what I miss about fantasy, historical fiction and sci-fi books — while the writing may be good, it is rare that I would feel totally enfolded into the history, the context and the world that an author creates. I think the last time that happened was with the first book of the Chaos Trilogy, The Knife of Never Letting Go. Hugh Howey does this for […]
The End of a Dystopian Trilogy
I’ve noticed reviews for Wool and Silo on here over the past few weeks from different reviewers, so I’m sure there are going to be a few more Dust soon. Here’s my take.