Book Review: Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
Incarnate Jodi Meadows Katherine Tegan Books/HarperCollins Publishers, January 2012 ISBN 978-0-06-206075-4 Hardcover Eighteen-year-old Ana has spent her entire life abused and reviled because she is a nosoul, born without a past into a world in which everyone else has been continually reincarnated for 5,000 years. Those who are reborn remember all their past lives and [...]
January 4, 2012
Tags: dark fantasy, HarperCollins Publishers, Katherine Tegan Books, romance, science fiction, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 
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Book Review: Poison, Your Grace by Peg Herring
Poison, Your Grace A Simon & Elizabeth Mystery Peg Herring Five Star, November 2011 ISBN No. 978-1432825362 Hardcover Simon Maldon’s life is much different now. He previously spent a lot of time at Hampstead Castle when Princess Elizabeth was staying there. The two had several adventures during that period. Then Elizabeth’s father passed away and [...]
December 8, 2011
Tags: Elizabeth, historical, mystery, royals, science fiction Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
Ashes Ilsa J. Bick Egmont, September 2011 ISBN 978-1-60684-175-4 Hardcover (e-ARC) Three young people, strangers to each other, band together along with a dog named Mina for survival in the Waucamaw Wilderness after an electromagnetic pulse has destroyed all electronic devices. Unknown to them, billions of people have died but teenaged Alex, eight-year-old Ellie and [...]
October 8, 2011
Tags: Egmont, EMP, science fiction, trilogy, wilderness survival, young adult, zombies Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: Germline by T.C. McCarthy
Germline (Subterrene War Trilogy #1) T.C. McCarthy Orbit Books, August 2011 ISBN 978-0-316-12818-6 Mass Market Paperback In the not so distant future, war is being fought over the resources that fuel the world’s need to supply a population’s ever growing needs. Nothing new about that. But too many young men have died in these never [...]
September 3, 2011
Tags: genetic engineering, military, Orbit Books, science fiction, subterranean Kazakhstan, war journalist Posted in: Full Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: Ashfall by Mike Mullin
Ashfall Mike Mullin Tanglewood Press, October 2011 ISBN 978-1-933718-55-2 Hardcover (e-ARC) Alex, a fifteen-year-old living in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is alone for the weekend, having browbeat his parents into letting him stay home while they take his little sister to visit relatives in Warren, Illinois. He’s looking forward to doing his own thing (mostly geek [...]
August 20, 2011
Tags: action adventure, dystopian, natural disaster, post-apocalyptic, science, science fiction, survival, Tanglewood Press, thriller, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews One Comment
Book Review: Toys by James Patterson & Neil McMahon
Toys James Patterson & Neil McMahon Little, Brown and Company, March 2011 ISBN No. 978-0-316-09736-9 Hardcover Toys moves the reader forward to the year 2061 where humans are referred to as skunks and the Elites are in charge. Hays Baker is an Elite.  Although every Elite has special powers, Hays Baker seems to have received [...]
May 9, 2011
Tags: Little Brown, mystery, science fiction, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press, 2010 ISBN 0439023521 Trade Paperback Note: This reviewer read a non-US edition. Katniss Everdeen is a survivor. A reluctant heroine in a terrifying, post-war former North America, Katniss is 16 years old and has taken responsibility for her family after her father died. Every day she risks her [...]
February 10, 2011
Tags: mystery, Scholastic Press, science fiction, thriller, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Ghost Country by Patrick Lee
Ghost Country Patrick Lee Harper, January 2011 ISBN 0061584444 Mass Market Paperback (ARC) Paige Campbell has just left the White House when she and her Tangent colleagues are attacked and everyone is killed, everyone except Paige. She has been kidnapped but, before being taken, she manages to make a desperate call to Bethany Stewart, another [...]
December 29, 2010
Tags: Harper, mystery, science fiction, suspense, thriller Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews 2 Comments
Book Review: Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
Cryoburn Lois McMaster Bujold Baen Books, November 2010 ISBN 9781439133941 Hardcover “Within the last few months,” [Miles went on,] “as the flagship facility we saw in Wing’s vid was nearing completion, WhiteChrys began collecting contracts on future customers. Not unnaturally, they targeted Solstice upper-class elderly women’s clubs. At the same time, another sales team made [...]
November 18, 2010
Tags: Baen, mystery, science fiction, space opera Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Full Reviews 24 Comments
Book Review: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press, August 2010 ISBN 9780439023511 Hardcover At seventeen, Katniss has survived the arena twice and has become the reluctant rallying point of rebellion.  Now living in District 13 since the Capitol destroyed her District 12 homeland, she acknowledges the refuge but can’t be entirely grateful.  Her best friend, Gale, and [...]
August 25, 2010
Tags: mystery, Scholastic Press, science fiction, thriller, young adult Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
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