Mira Grant – Symbiont (Parasitology Book #2)
I can’t believe I read this even after I’ve promised myself I’d stop after being disappointed by book 1 in the series. But hey, at least I can write home about it. Synopsis: THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US.The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the…
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Read by Fenella Woolgar “You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.” TRIGGER WARNING: INFANT DEATH, MAIMING, RAPE, ABORTION. What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and…
John Scalzi – The Android’s Dream
A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way. To avoid war, Earth’s government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep (“The Android’s Dream”), used in the alien race’s coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war…
Kate Atkinson – One good turn (Book #2 Jackson Brodie Series)
If you’re interested in a detective story set in Scotland, look no further. I’ve picked up Kate Atkinson after reading Life after Life and I hoped this book will live up to the hype. Unfortunately, it didn’t do it for me. The writer and detective, as he himself proclaims, has a very boring internal life…
Great Big Beautiful Life – Emily Henry
Love comes with sacrifice. After reading that crappy Parasitology book series, I needed something to cleanse my palate and I picked up some Emily Henry. She’s the new Susan Elizabeth Phillips with cosy and cheesy romances which make me smile after having some crap ingested the week before. There’s an old saying about stories, and…
Mira Grant – Parasite (Book 1)
Oh, my. I expected something a lot better. I think the Infected series by Scott Sigler has spoiled me. I wanted pandemic, disease spread, panic, science and a deep-dive into human nature when things go wrong. Instead, I got pandemic, disease spread, panic, and an amnesiac’s guide to life after receiving a life saving operation…
Will they or won’t they – Ava Wilder
Every now and then I pick a colourful romance novel – the type where there’s a cartoon on the cover, in hopes of cleansing my palate. This time, I’ve picked Ava Wilder’s novel – Will they or won’t they, a show-biz romance between the co-stars of a series who are forced to work together for…
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
I ran across this book by mistake and decided to give it a go. I like to think of myself open-minded but I feel that I, a white woman in my 40’s, am completely the wrong audience for this book. Written by a black author for black audiences, the n-word is often used and, in…
Brom – Lost Gods
As things go, I went into this book read completely blind, not knowing what the book was about – just that it was a horror novel (of kinda epic proportions). A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind…
John Wyndham – The trouble with lichen (1960)
The sixth novel by prolific Sci-fi legend John Wyndham, and a return to the biological threat approach he first used in The Day of The Triffids. First published in 1960. “[A] nation’s science simply has to keep up with the Jones’s these days.” Even though this book is a classic, I must say it can…
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