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Category Archives: Review
Review: The Registry by Shannon Stoker
Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (June 11, 2013) ISBN-10: 0062271725 Source: Publisher Years ago, The Registry saved the country from potential collapse. Girls are groomed to be perfect wives and are sold for the highest bid … Continue reading
Posted in Dystopian fiction, Review, William Morrow, YA
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Review: A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 039916216X Source: Publisher It’s Memorial Day weekend in 1938. Following family tradition, Lily Dane has left her life in New York and returned with her family to the oceanfront community of … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Putnam, Review, Romance
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Review: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 0061950726 Source: Publisher Molly Ayer is in foster care, about to “age out” of the system. When she steals a book from the library, she’s forced to do community … Continue reading
Review: Zombie, Illinois by Scott Kenemore
Paperback: 392 pages Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (October 1, 2012) ISBN-10: 1616088850 Source: Personal copy When the dead begin to rise, the most unlikely of coalitions form between a pastor from Chicago’s rough South Side, a young reporter, and a female musician. As if … Continue reading
Frightful Friday: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. The featured title this week is Red Moon by Benjamin Percy: Hardcover: 544 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; First … Continue reading
Posted in Frightful Friday, Grand Central Publishing, Horror, Review
Tagged lycanthropes, werewolves
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Review: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (February 26, 2013) ISBN-10: 1250012570 Source: Library copy The year is 1986 in Omaha, Nebraska. Park is a sixteen-year-old part Asian boy living in a mostly white community. He’s not an outcast but … Continue reading
Posted in Review, St. Martin's Griffin, YA
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Mini-Review: Poppet by Mo Hayder
Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (May 14, 2013) ISBN-10: 0802121071 Source: Publisher AJ is a head nurse at Beechway, a high-level psychiatric hospital. Rather than focusing on the crimes that each of his patients have committed, AJ treats … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic Monthly Press, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Review, Thriller
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Review: Zombie, Ohio: A Tale of the Undead by Scott Kenemore
Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (February 8, 2011) ISBN-10: 1616082062 Source: Library copy Peter Mellor is a college professor in rural Ohio. While attempting to visit his girlfriend in the midst of a zombie outbreak, Peter gets into a horrible car accident. … Continue reading
Posted in Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Review, Zombie Awareness Month
Tagged Ohio, undead, zombies
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Frightful Friday: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. The featured title this week is The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey: Age Range: 12 and up Hardcover: 480 … Continue reading
Posted in Frightful Friday, Penguin, Review, YA
Tagged aliens, apocalyptic, end of the world
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Review: The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam (May 7, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 9780399161469 The year is 1923. As a typist in a New York City Police Department precinct, Rose Baker can seal the fate of an individual within a … Continue reading
Posted in Amy Einhorn Books, Historical Fiction, Review, Thriller
Tagged 1920s, New York City, psychological thriller
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