When Mae arrives on her first day of work at The Circle, the world’s largest internet company, she is immediately engulfed and welcomed on campus, dazzled by the constant events and built-in social life. As the reader and a geek, I too was dazzled. All the perks of working for the mega-rich people-friendly companies were trotted out: the concerts and groups, encouraged individuality, free lunches and malleable schedules, all wrapped in a shiny high-tech bow. The gloss quickly loses it’s glamour when the social opportunities […]
Life After Life
“What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?” Life After Life is a story about living. Born in a snow storm in 1910, Ursula is a normal girl living a normal life. Over and over she lives, dies and lives again, rebooting her world, rewriting her story. This novel weaves a tapestry of existence. Through all her paths and choices, what could have been becoming what is, we see her […]
Zombie
Man, I try to get a straight forward book about zombies, and instead it’s yet another pedophile preying on young boys. Had I known, I doubt I would have started reading this, but it was in my bag and I was stranded with nothing else to read. “Zombie” is written in journal style, the direct words of Quentin P____, who we quickly realize is a serial killer trying to create his own personal zombie who will love him and fulfill all his desires without question […]
Patient Zero
Patient Zero, at first look, is a book about zombies. However, the zombies are just a side story to the main action. Joe Ledger is a cop, about to head off to the FBI academy, when a bust brings him face to face with a terrorist cell, plotting to release a plague that will decimate the world. Approached by a super secret agency, he finds himself suddenly on the front lines. The story flips back and forth between the agents and the terrorists, while never […]