Mar 18
Aftermath
Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig is really good. This is a review of the first entry of his Aftermath Trilogy. Warning for Spoilers.
Mar 18
Aftermath II: Life Debt
This is the second book in the Chuck Wendig, Star Wars: Aftermath trilogy. Spoilers!The book does a fantastic job of not overly praising the New Republic while also not purely demonizing the Empire like the movies. It has legitimate criticism.
Our heroes from the first book return: Norra + Temmin Wexley, the bounty hunter Jas...
Mar 17
Aftermath III: Empire's End
This book is the last of Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy. It shows the Empire's decline, the problems of the New Republic, and how the First Order began. Spoilers!
Gallius Rax was hand picked to enact Emperor Palpatine's secret Contingency plan. Basically he didn't want anyone to succeed him. So, he's to destroy the Empire and create a new one....
Feb 28
Cold Fire
Cold Fire was published in 1991 so it's a review of an older book but given it's similarity to Ashley Bell, I decided to review it too. Spoiler Warning.
Cold Fire has two main characters:
Feb 21
The Guardians - Andrew Pyper
Spoiler synopsis.
The story goes back and forth between present and 24-years ago. In the summer of 1984, the main character, Trevor, and his three best friends Ben, Carl, and Randy are 16 years old in their Jr year of high school.
The novel opens with the police taking the body out of a house across the street from the McAuliffe home. ...
Here is a VERY brief recap/synopsis of the newest book by David Wong and is essentially spoiler free but does give away some things you learn early on in the book.
The main character is 22 year old barista Zoey Ashe who lives in Colorado in the 'near future'. She is the daughter of a stripper and Arthur Livingston, who she is not close to. ...
Feb 07
Life Expectancy
This book is very fast paced and well written. However... the characters pretty much conform to every over Dean Koontz novel. Sigh.
The day Jimmy Tock, the main character, is born his grandfather dies but not before making 10 predictions. Notably he predicts that Jimmy will have '5 terrible bad days'.
That August night in Snow County...
Jan 31
Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac
I am doing a brief recap as I found this book really interesting. I will read a biography on some of the other Beats, provided my library has them.... -.- The Beat Generation includes: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, John C. Holmes & Jack Kerouac. They are described as "psychic pioneers", and "alienated American prophets...
Jan 24
Darkest Evening of the Year
Jan 17
Ashley Bell
We are introduced to Bibi Blair our 22 year old main character. From the get go I have a major issue with her characterization. If you've read any book by Dean Koontz you know all his characters are basically the same, while story lines play out differently, there is a VERY detectable pattern to them. Well Bibi Blair...
Jan 10
Innocence
The story is told from the point of view of Addison Goodheart, a 26 year old man who has something about his appearance that repulses people and drives them to violence so he lives in isolation under New York City.
Through the story we learn more and more about Addison's life. He lived with his mother in...
Jan 03
Cutler Series
BOOK ONE: DAWN14 year old Dawn lives with her older brother, 16 year old Jimmy, their new born sister Fern & their parents Sally Jean & Ormand Longchamp. They are very poor & move around a lot. After the birth of Fern, Sally Jean becomes progressively ill. Their luck turns around when Ormand gets a position...