1 Star – Looking For a Good Book

December 30, 2024

STAR TREK: DISCOVERING THE TV SERIES – Tom Salinsky

STAR TREK WEEK Why? Why do we need this? Aside from my distaste for a non-fan to act like a deep fan for the purposes of a book, my other ‘problem’ is that this offers nothing new. ‘This’ episode is good. ‘This’ episode is bad. Yeah, yeah, some of this is pretty commonly held thought, Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, NON-FICTION, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, non-fiction, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Star Trek

July 24, 2024

THE WAKING DREAMER – J. E. Alexander

There’s a really fine line, when writing stories set in dream worlds with nightmarish denizens and frustrated teens, between well-crafted worlds that make a certain kind of necessary sense even if it’s not obvious to the reader at first, and self-indulgent whimsy that may have made sense to the author upon writing, but doesn’t hold Continue reading

Dark Fantasy/Horror, Uncategorized, YA

1 Star, 2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Horror/Dark Fantasy, Reviews, Young Adult

April 24, 2023

TOMORROW’S END – G.R. Morris

Oof. This was a tough read. Our story (as best as I can sum it up): Kevin Knight has been pre-destined to be the galaxy’s savior – an actual knight, so to speak. But things go sideways when tragedy strikes, he winds up in jail and demonic forces embed themselves like a parasite inside of Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

April 21, 2021

SOUL’D OUT – G.E. Butler

Beatrice Ball loves to sing. She loves it more than anything. When she’s not singing she feels empty at best and, because it means dealing with her controlling mother, angry at worst. Beatrice begins to sneak out at night in order to sing incognito. But one night something happens and she wakes up in a Continue reading

OTHER, Uncategorized

1 Star, Music

November 30, 2020

DRACULAS – Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, Jeff Strand, & F. Paul Wilson

I’m often on the look-out for a good horror novel to read, and when I saw this, with a couple of author names I recognized, I thought this would be a good read and satisfy my hunger for something dark. But I was wrong. The horror genre can come in different forms and my least Continue reading

Dark Fantasy/Horror, Uncategorized

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, Horror/Dark Fantasy, Reviews

October 12, 2020

DEJA VU – Ian Hocking

Saskia Brandt is a detective in the year 2023. She has returned from a vacation to find that her receptionist is dead and she is a leading suspect in the murder. In another part of the city, university professor David Proctor is informed that the very special computer he has on loan from the university Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

April 1, 2020

A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR – Jason Sheehan

A group of aviators have formed their own company, known as Flyboy, Inc. They’ve landed on an alien planet and have completely devastated everything natural to the world. They’ve exploited and killed the natives as the tried to rebel against these alien invaders, and they’ve ravished hundreds of millions of terrain. It was supposed to Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

July 10, 2019

VIGILANTE NIGHTS – Erin Richards

Lucas and his twin sister, Silver, are accosted by a local gang one night. Just when they think they are about to get escape this gang initiation they discover that they are stopped on a road that is used as a local drag racing strip and they wind up in a horrible accident. Lucas wakes Continue reading

Uncategorized, YA

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, Young Adult

July 8, 2019

MAD LIBRARIAN – Michael Guillebeau

A library in a small town in the southern United States has its funding cut by the city and the librarian, Serenity, fights back in an unusual way. There is a slight sense of Catch-22 or M*A*S*H (the book series) humor here, with average people doing absurd things in order to get a positive result, Continue reading

HUMOR

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, Horror/Dark Fantasy, Reviews

May 27, 2019

INTERSTATE – Stephen Dixon

I get nervous anytime I see a literary award embossed on a book cover. I’ve so rarely enjoyed the award-winning books I’ve read that I’ve come to the personal feeling that literary awards are given for a book’s form more than for their stories. I continue to feel that way with Stephen Dixon’s Interstate. The Continue reading

OTHER, Uncategorized

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, Literature, Reviews

January 9, 2019

BELLMAN & BLACK – Diane Setterfield

Bellman & Black is one of the older books in my ARC queue and I remember being quite interested in this because of the publicity calling this a ‘perfect’ ghost story. But this is not a ghost story. Not really. This is a moody, atmospheric tale of a consumed living man. As a boy, William Continue reading

OTHER, Uncategorized

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews

August 22, 2018

CHANGE YOUR WORLD IN 71 DAYS – Tom Connellan

I discovered this book at the back-end of my reading queue, and since I’m trying to catch up on my reviews I will periodically choose the oldest books in my ARC library to read and review. Change Your World in 71 Days. By Tom Connellan. Yes. I had two immediate reactions while reading this. The Continue reading

Uncategorized

1 Star, Book Reviews, Books, non-fiction, Reviews