It’s Victorian England, and Violet Adams is a frustrated young scientist. Her biggest wish is to go to Illyria University, famed world-wide for its exclusive focus on science, but they do not admit women. Her twin brother Ashton, meanwhile, wants nothing more than to patronize London’s exclusive clubs and meet other like-minded young men. When…
Category Archives: Sci Fi/Fantasy
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is described as a sort of quirky genre-busting novel, which are among my favorite to read — when they work. I’m not sure how genre-busting it is, but this book did work for me. Immediately, this novel felt like the popular dystopian genre that is so prevalent in YA literature…
The Power of Six
When Amanda and I were browsing the YA section of our local Half-Price Books looking for some books to take on our summer vacation, Amanda asked, “Can I read the books of Pretty Little Liars?” (knowing that I’ve already forbidden the TV show that so many of her friends watch). I told her no. I…
Enclave
When the audiobook Enclave by Ann Aguirre arrived in my mailbox, I thought, “More dystopian lit,” but it was more like “Dystopian lit! Bring it on!” My 12-year-old Amanda and I both enjoy these types of novels. I think that one reason adults as well as young people are drawn to this type of story…
The Third
The Third, a post-apocalyptic novel set 50 years in the future, imagines a world in which the most extreme environmentalists have won and turned everything into a harsh, drab, joyless totalitarian existence. It’s part George Orwell’s 1984 and part an extreme right-winger’s worst nightmare come to life. The story opens with Ransom Lawe, a fundamentally…
Warm Bodies
Meet R. R can’t remember his first name, only the first initial. He hangs out with his best friend, M, in their airport home, listens to music, and wonders about what his life used to be like. R likes to leave home on occasion, taking trips into the city to get some food. His food…
Death’s Excellent Vacation
Death’s Excellent Vacation is the third anthology edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner. Like the previous anthologies edited by Harris and Kelner, the 13 short stories have one thing in common: they take place during a vacation. There are some gems in this set of stories, some that fall way short, and most…
Wicked Appetite
Janet Evanovich fans are probably aware she has a new book coming out this week. Wicked Appetite is the first in the Unmentionables series, featuring Diesel and Carl the monkey from the Between-the-Numbers books. For those not familiar with Evanovich’s work, she writes a series of books about a bounty hunter named Stephanie Plum, and…
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