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Title: Fake Like MeAuthor: Barbara BourlandGenre: Fiction, ThrillerYear Published: 2019 Fake Like Me is a thriller by Barbara Bourland. The story is written in first person point-of-view through a no-name narrator who starts out as an art student and moves her way upward. While in art school, the narrator becomes obsessed with a particular art... Continue Reading →
Title: Selected Stories of Philip K. DickAuthor: Philip K. DickGenre: Fiction, Sci-fi, FantasyYear Published: 2013 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is a collection of short stories in sci-fi and fantasy by Philip K. Dick. I would say it’s some of his best works. There are 21 stories and they were all enjoyable, but my... Continue Reading →
Title: An American StoryAuthor: Mark LagesGenre: Fiction, Literary, MemoirYear Published: 2020 An American Story by Mark Lages is a fictional memoir about a man named Huey Baker. Huey tells us stories and experiences from his life and within it, he includes some satire, war stories, alcohol abuse stories, family dynamics, and many other facets of... Continue Reading →
Title: The Dawn ChorusAuthor: Samantha ShannonGenre: Sci-fi, Paranormal, New AdultYear Published: 2020 The Dawn Chorus is a novella between The Song Rising (the 3rd book in the Bone Season series), and the upcoming 4th book, The Mask Falling. The novella doesn’t give anything away from the main story. It basically delves into Paige’s pain and... Continue Reading →
Title: Jesus and MagdaleneAuthor: João CerqueiraGenre: Fiction, Literary, Satire, ContemporaryYear Published: 2015, 2016 Jesus and Magdalene by João Cerqueira is a contemporary fiction with satire and thought-provoking points. The story follows Jesus and Mary Magdalene as they try to figure out how to stop environmental damage, greed, and racism. In the story, Magdalene is an... Continue Reading →
Title: The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesAuthor: Suzanne CollinsGenre: Sci-fi, YA, DystopianYear Published: 2020 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian sci-fi about a young Coriolanus Snow before he became President Snow. The story takes place many years earlier, before The Hunger Games trilogy, when Coriolanus was seventeen and climbing... Continue Reading →
Title: AftershocksAuthor: Marko KloosGenre: Sci-fi, Military Sci-fi, Space OperaYear Published: 2019 Aftershocks by Marko Kloos is a military sci-fi novel following four characters. The main character, Aden, a POW on a foreign planet, is freed and makes his trek to a new home. Things don’t go as planned and he ends up working for another... Continue Reading →
Title: The Burning WhiteAuthor: Brent WeeksGenre: Fantasy, High FantasyYear Published: 2019 The Burning White by Brent Weeks is the fifth and final book in the Lightbringer series. I’m not sure how to review this book because it was a whole lot of everything. The plot basically was to defeat the enemy but there were assassins... Continue Reading →
I started watching The Last Kingdom earlier this month with husband. A friend recommended it a couple weeks earlier but I had forgotten and then husband pulled it up on Netflix and we got into it. I'm so glad. This is one great series. I didn't know this until I started doing some research after... Continue Reading →
Title: The Pale DreamerAuthor: Samantha ShannonGenre: Sci-fi, paranormal, new adultYear Published: 2016 The Pale Dreamer by Samantha Shannon is a prequel novella to The Bone Season series. It gives us a taste of Paige Mahoney’s first job with mime-lord, Jaxon Hall. The story takes place when Paige is sixteen, three years before The Bone Season.... Continue Reading →
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