Jasper Fforde hasn’t released a new book since 2014, and that is a long time for him. I have been waiting and waiting (so patiently) for the third Nursery Crime book, but it just doesn’t seem to be happening. Neither does the second Shades of Grey book. But now there is this book, which is not actually out in the US until 2019, so I bought it from Book Depository. I’m glad I did this anyway because the UK cover is so much better than the […]
Locked room murder mystery, in space!
I stayed up entirely too late finishing this. It was really very hard for me to put down, and that alone earns it the privilege of being bumped up to four stars. I did have some quibbles with it, but in the end they were minor, and I was compelled by the book to finish (always a good sign). Six Wakes, to boil it down, is about six clones on a generation ship who wake up to find that they have all been murdered, and […]
“It was stupid not to live your life to the fullest when you could die tomorrow, and I sure as shit wasn’t about to take hell for that from some macho skullhead idiot.”
This was fun! I think I might have had even more fun with it by audio, or hard copy, but all my library had was the e-book. I don’t know why, but I have a really hard time maintaining focus on e-books if they’re not romance. Anyway, hard copy or audio for the sequels, most definitely. Devi was a fun protagonist. She is extremely good at her job, and she is very ambitious. She wants to be a Devastator, the most elite fighters on her […]
Annihilation: Consistently CREEPY
While I missed Annihilation in theatres, I was very pleased to see it show up on Netflix. I know there were some mixed reviews, but it certainly got people talking and I was thrilled to see a cast made up almost entirely of women (TESSA THOMPSON) in a real science fiction movie to boot. I had not read the book prior to seeing the movie and had tried to avoid reviews with spoilers. I found the movie deeply unsettling – moody and dark with interesting […]