Category: Reviews
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Book Review – Ninth House
Alex Stern #1 A girl with the ability to see ghosts finds peace in drug abuse. When her world comes violently crashing down around her, she’s surprisingly offered a dangerous job at Lethe House and a scholarship to the prestigious Yale University. What happens at Yale is nothing like what she expects. How dangerous are…
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Book Review – Zombie Fallout: Zero
Audio-exclusive prequel to Zombie Fallout series. This short story covers the details of what happened leading up to the zombie outbreak from Patient Zero, how the government was involved, and how evil some people in positions of power can truly be. We follow CDC scientist Harry through his work to identify and try and stop…
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Book Review – Tread of Angels
Angels. Demons. Western fantasy setting. Murder-mystery. I absolutely love fantasy books featuring angels of the fallen variety. I love fantasy westerns. I love books about the struggle between good and bad, right and wrong. I did not love this book. It was all of those things above, but in the wrong way. Perhaps being told…
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Book Review – Brief Cases
#15.1 in the Dresden Files series. A set of short stories from the Dresden world that take place at varying times in our journeys with Harry. Many of the tales are told by side characters, including one from Mouse, his large, fluffy dog. Curses – 3/5Between Small Favor and Turn Coat.Harry is hired to lift…
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Book Review – Star Wars: Red Harvest
A Star Wars Legends: Novels book. Some Sith decide that they want a flower that a Jedi agriculturalist has. They forcibly take it, and use it to create an evil formula. Things go wrong (or maybe right?) and zombies happen. So, compared to Death Troopers, this book falls completely flat. There was nothing about this…
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Book Review – Queen’s Peril
Star Wars: The Padme Trilogy #2 Padme has been elected Queen of Naboo and with the help of her security head, creates a team of handmaidens to help protect her. When the Trade Federation starts to poke at Naboo, Padme joins in the political games in order to keep her planet safe. This was very…
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Book Review – Hidden Bodies
You #2 Joe Goldberg, upset about being swindled and lied to, decides to move across the country to glitzy-glam Los Angeles so he can track down Amy and get some revenge. But when he gets to LA, he discovers a whole different world and gets wrapped up in a whole different girl. I wouldn’t say…
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Book Review – The Dawn of Yangchen
Chronicles of the Avatar – Book #3 A young Avatar needs to find the strength within herself to be a formidable, trusted leader in a world where money rules and distrust is common. I am not going to go deeply into this book because I actually found it to be quite boring. After experiencing the…
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Book Review – Definitely Dead
#6 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. Sookie finds herself in the Big Easy after the final death of her cousin Hadley, who happened to be the vampire consort to the Queen of Louisiana. It seems that Hadley had some big secrets, that unfortunately, put Sookie in danger while trying to clean up her estate. Two…
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Book Review – Skin Game
#15 in the Dresden Files series. As the Winter Knight, Harry finds himself being forced by Mab to work with old nemesis Nicodemus in a heist for the supernatural ages. The target? The Holy Grail. The location? Hades mega-high security vault in the Underworld. The Players? Old friends but also old enemies working together in…
Disorderly Daydreams 