Category: Science Fiction

  • REVIEW of Miss Sharp’s Monsters Series (#1-#3) by Suzannah Rowntree

    REVIEW of Miss Sharp’s Monsters Series (#1-#3) by Suzannah Rowntree

    This is a remarkable paranormal series that takes gaslamp/steampunk fantasy and mixes it with beasts of legend. In the end, Liz Sharp has to be willing to give up all hope of victory if it means doing what is right…

  • REVIEW of The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    REVIEW of The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    It’s been four years since the Luxen invasion. At seventeen years old, Evie Dasher has vague terror-filled memories of hiding from the alien invaders and having her whole life turned upside down. Now that she’s a senior in high school, life is getting back to normal. TV shows are back on the air, hamburgers are…

  • REVIEW of The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2), by Eoin Colfer

    REVIEW of The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2), by Eoin Colfer

    The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer is a YA sci-fi/fantasy series starring a young criminal mastermind, his trusty Butler, and a spunky police officer from the fairy realm named Holly Short. In this second book of the series, Artemis learns that his father–whose ship was blown up off the coast of Russia two years…

  • REVIEW of Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins

    REVIEW of Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins

    Mockingjay, the final book in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, concludes the story of Katniss Everdeen, but whether it is a satisfactory conclusion is a question open for debate. As the book begins, Katniss has been whisked away from the Hunger Games arena by the shadowy rebels from District 13. These insurgents have spent many hours planning…

  • REVIEW of Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins

    REVIEW of Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins

    Catching Fire, the second book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, picks up where the first book left off. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have conquered the Hunger Games in defiance of the rules; now they must conquer the vengeance of the Capitol. President Snow pays a visit to Katniss and lets her…

  • REVIEW of The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

    REVIEW of The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

    I started reading The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, while ensconced in an overstuffed armchair at the mall bookstore, killing time before the next showing of Mission Impossible IV. I rarely read popular literature of that kind. I picked it up on a whim, and I fully expected to dislike it. By the time I finally…

  • REVIEW of The Skin Map, by Stephen Lawhead

    Let me get this off my chest before I start: I am not a big fan of time travel novels or novels that jump back and forth between sets of characters in different time periods. With that said, I must acknowledge that I liked Stephen Lawhead’s new book, The Skin Map, more than I thought…

  • REVIEW of The Children of Men, by P. D. James

    I saw the movie of this same name (starring Clive Owen) a couple years ago when it came out in theaters. I vaguely remember it as a dystopian story featuring a very graphic birth scene, coming horrifically close to the birthing videos one would watch to get an EMT license. Recently, one of my Facebook…

  • REVIEW of Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card

    This post has been over a month in the making, because while I read Ender’s Game quickly enough, it took me that long to obtain and read the three subsequent books in the series. Ender’s Game is the story of a young boy genius named Andrew (Ender) Wiggin who is taken from his family at…

  • REVIEW of Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fforde

    Jasper Fforde’s books are as whimsical as the spelling of his last name. I was first introduced to Fforde over a year ago and mirthfully made my way through his Thursday Next books and Nursery Crime series in a matter of weeks. The fantastical wordplay and literary allusions exercised and entertained my brain (even convincing…