Category: Reviews
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Book Review – Network Effect
#5 in the Murderbot series. While on a security job for some Preservation folks we’ve already met, Murderbot and it’s crew get kidnapped by an unusual and dangerous group of grey people who may or may not be under the influence of some alien remnant technology. Unfortunately for them, they chose Murderbot’s closest friend to…
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Book Review – Legends & Lattes
Battle-hardened Orc Viv retires and decides to open a coffee shop in Thune. She meets new friends, reconnects with old friends, and finds a little romance along the way. When an adversary shows up and things get a little hot in the shop, Viv and her friends must work together to save the day. Legends…
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Book Review – Cold Days
#14 in The Dresden Files series. While at his most vulnerable, Harry turned to Mab for help, but what will it cost him? Chicago’s only professional wizard has a whole bunch of titles to his name, but adding “The Winter Knight” may end up being more than he bargained for. As old, calculating enemies have…
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Book Review – The Viper
#3 in the Black Dagger Brotherhood Prison Camp series. Nurse Nadya falls for patient Kane and the two make a heroic escape from the prison camp. As Kane decides to let his past go, and seeks Nadya out, his past makes a surprise appearance and it could change everything he’d thought about his life before…
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Book Review – You
#1 in the You series. Joe Goldberg works at a bookstore where he meets Brown University student Guinevere Beck. He falls into a deep obsession with her and begins stalking her. Only, he’s not some run of the mill stalker who gets caught trying to peek into her windows at night. Joe is intelligent enough,…
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Book Review – Verity
Financially struggling author Lowen Ashleigh gets signed on to finish writing a series for established, successful author Verity Crawford, who suffered an injury that makes her incapable of writing anymore. To get to know Verity and her writing more thoroughly, Lowen goes to stay at Verity’s home so that she can study what Verity has…
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Book Review – A Hole in the Sky
Book #1 of the Arkship trilogy. Daedalus is a starship on a 500 year voyage, taking a civilization of humans to a new planet. This ship isn’t a normal spacecraft though, it is a fully contained habitat that mirrors a wordly environment. The people on the ship are farmers who live in village-type communities, there’s…
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Book Review – Dead as a Doornail
Book #5 of Sookie Stackhouse series. A shooter is on the loose in Bon Temps, and it appears they are targeting shifters. Could this be related to someone catching Sookie’s house on fire? Or is there something even bigger going on? While Sookie tries to do a little investigating of her own, she finds herself…
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Book Review – The Love Hypothesis
Olive is a graduate student and Adam is a tenured professor (but not her professor). What started as a surprise kiss morphs into a full blown fake-dating scheme before evolving into (true?) love. As the two navigate the awkward and confusing situation they put themselves in, life in academia shows it’s (occasionally) ugly face, causing…
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Book Review – Darius
JR Ward finally tells the story of Darius, who died at in her very first Black Dagger Brotherhood novel. We didn’t know much about him in the beginning, and we only learned bits and pieces of his life through reading the stories of others. We knew he was important but his role in life (and…
Disorderly Daydreams 