Cinder – Melissa Meyer

The Lunar Chronicles #1 – a Cinderella inspired sci-fi. 4/5 Stars. The prose needs a lot of work. Spoilers to follow, of course. Overall, I really enjoyed this novel. I look forward to continuing the series, eventually. (I’m going alphabetically so it’s not time yet.) Cinder is a cyborg in New Beijing in the distant

Rhythm of War – A Review, sorta.

This post contains SPOILERS for Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson. Book 4 of the Stormlight Archives. This isn’t going to a full on review. There is just so much to cover and not a lot of time for something like that. If you’re interested in that then I suggest YouTube. There are lots of

Murderbot Diaries

I posted a review for All Systems Red, the first novella of this series, already. I’ve since been sort of binge reading the rest. I wanted to finish it all before I wrote another review, doing it all at once. This series is so fascinating. It has an over arching storyline covering 4 novellas and

Dawnshard Review

by Brandon Sanderson Dawnshard is the new novella in The Stormlight Archive, occuring 3 months after the events in Oathbringer. It follows along Rysn, a Thaylen merchant we saw before during interludes, and Lopen, the once one-armed Herdazian now Radiant, on their adventure to discover an Oathgate on the mysterious  island Aimia. I probably wouldn’t

All Systems Red

by Martha Wells The Murderbot Diaries sweeping 4 novella and 1 full novel, is a sci-fi series about an artificial construct (meaning robot with organic parts, particularly a Security Unit (Or Sec Unit), who hacked his system to become independent and calls himself Murderbot. He is contracted to a group of scientists for a surveying

His Majesty’s Dragon

by Naomi Novik ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Published in 2006 as Temeraire in the UK, the US title changed to His Majesty’s Dragon. An alternate history set during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), intelligent and sapient dragons (like many portrayals of dragons) are used in aerial warfare. This first book of 9 describes how Captain William Laurence of the

The Guest List – Spoilers

by Lucy Foley Trigger Warning: mentions of suicide and abortion. The Guest List is a thriller murder mystery set on a remote island just off mainland Ireland. It revolves around a high profile wedding of Jules (a successful online magazine owner) and Will (actor of a successful survival reality show). We get POVs from several

The Cask of Amontillado

Being spooky season and only having a week left of October I thought some short stories would do nicely. Edgar Allen Poe is famous for his dark short stories, this one in particular. Also seems fitting that he died in October. I remember reading this in English class back in high school. Even though it’s

Favorite Series of All Time

Thought I’d do a little post on what series is my favorite of all time. I have many series that I love and will reread many times over. Most books I read tend to be part of a series. Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Mistborn, just to name a few. However, my most

Murder on the Orient Express

My first read of October was Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. I purposefully chose a mystery for the spooky-dook season. I don’t normally go for mysteries, but Agatha Christie is the queen of mystery so I figured this was a good place to start. Besides, I have seen the movie already so