Category Archives: Book Review

My Heart is a Chainsaw (Stephen Graham Jones) – Review

Posted on May 22, 2022 by John

My Heart Is a Chainsaw Stephen Graham Jones Gallery / Saga Press SYNOPSIS: “Some girls just don’t know how to die…” Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that … Continue reading →

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Holly and the Nobodies (Ben Pienaar) – Review

Posted on September 6, 2021 by John

Holly and the Nobodies Ben Pienaar HellBound Books SYNOPSIS: Holly Anderson is a lonely girl, born with the power to materialize living beings from thin air. When she decides to kidnap a ‘real’ person to be her friend, schoolgirl Alex … Continue reading →

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Falling: A Novel (T. J. Newman) – Review

Posted on August 11, 2021 by John

Falling: A Novel T. J. Newman Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster SYNOPSIS: You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before … Continue reading →

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The Last House on Needless Street (Catriona Ward) – Review

Posted on July 18, 2021 by John

The Last House on Needless Street Catriona Ward Macmillan-Tor/Forge Tor Nightfire SYNOPSIS: In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, … Continue reading →

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Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir) – Review

Posted on July 18, 2021 by John

Project Hail Mary Andy Weir Ballantine Books: (May 4, 2021) ISBN-10 ? : ? 0593135202 ISBN-13 ? : ? 978-0593135204 SYNOPSIS: Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself … Continue reading →

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The Twin Paradox (Charles Wachter) – Review

Posted on June 14, 2021 by John

The Twin Paradox Charles Wachter Trevaney Bay (August 23, 2020) ISBN-10 : 1735361224 ISBN-13 : 978-1735361222 SYNOPSIS: With ten years passing for every three minutes on a remote stretch of Texas coast, planes fall out of the sky, evolved species … Continue reading →

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The Bone Witch (Rin Chupeco) – Review

Posted on July 17, 2017 by John

The Bone Witch Rin Chupeco Sourcebooks Fire Sci Fi & Fantasy, Teens & YA SYNOPSIS: When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy … Continue reading →

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Counterpart (Machinations Book Two) by Hayley Stone – Review

Posted on January 4, 2017 by John

Counterpart (Machinations Book Two) by Hayley Stone Publisher: Hydra (Random House LLC) Now Available From the Description: The high-intensity sci-fi thriller series that began with Machinations continues as reincarnated insurgent Rhona Long faces off against the one enemy she can’t … Continue reading →

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The Hatching (Advance Reader Copy Review)

Posted on August 15, 2016 by John

The Hatching: A Novel (The Hatching Series) Ezekiel Boone Atria Books Atria/Emily Bestler Books Synopsis: An astonishingly inventive and terrifying debut novel about the emergence of an ancient species, dormant for over the thousand years, and now on the march. … Continue reading →

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Machinations by Hayley Stone (Review)

Posted on July 18, 2016 by John

Machinations Hayley Stone Print Length: 343 pages Publisher: Hydra (Random House LLC) Publication Date: July 26, 2016   My Review: Hayley Stone’s MACHINATIONS begins after the Robot/Artificial-Intelligence apocalypse has nearly wiped humanity from the planet. And shortly after the story … Continue reading →

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