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295 reviews

Duck the Halls by Donna Andrews

3.0

Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez

4.0

From the same author who brought us "Gil's All-Fright Diner" comes another wild pastiche of comedy and SF. Emperor Mollusk, ruler of the earth (Courtesy of spiking our water supplies and foods with obedience drugs for generations, rather than bothering with that messy, pesky invasion stuff) must defend the planet from the Sinister Brain, which employs agents such as a gigantic jellyfish slug and the mechanized robotic radioactive brain of Madame Curie. Pure insanity from start to finish with a wonderful sort of almost-British, subtle black humor.

Darling Hands, Darling Tongue by Nashay Jones, Sally Rosen Kindred

5.0

The Loch Ness Legacy by Boyd Morrison

3.0

Wonderfully insane plot, very uninvolving characters and execution. It was enjoyable enough to keep going, but I wasn't sad to see it go. The characters never felt like anything other than standard cutouts.

The Gates by John Connolly

4.0

Fantastic! I always wonder how books like the Twilight series can become such massive YA hits when vastly superior books like this don't seem to get the same mass-audience traction. This was loads of fun from start to finish, with a dry, humorous writing style comparable to Douglas Adams. Very British, very witty. What sounds like a horror novel is really a wonderful comedic satire about suburbia and the concept of Ultimate Evil. Many thumbs up!

Silencing Sapphire by Mia Thompson

4.0

Just as much fun as the first, and with some major plot explosions! I had assumed going in that this would be yet another static series, where everyone basically stays the same from book to book and each one would be Sapphire hunting the serial killer of the week, but this was a pleasant surprise in essentially tossing all its ingredients up in the air and reshuffling them by book's end. Now I'm looking forward to the next one even more.

Doc Savage: Skull Island by Will Murray

3.0

Doc Savage meets King Kong! Does anything more need to be said? Well, yes, actually, as I just wrote a comprehensive review of it for Kentucky Fried Popcorn:
http://kentuckyfriedpopcorn.blogspot.com/2014/02/doc-savage-skull-island.html

"Let me do right to all, and wrong no man."

The Martian by Andy Weir

5.0

The most terrifically entertaining book I've read since Ready Player One. If you enjoyed the movie Apollo 13, READ THIS, it's an amazing experience.

The Ghoul Next Door by Victoria Laurie

3.0

Asylum by Madeleine Roux

3.0