Category Archives: Review

Zombie Mondays: Audiobook Review-Zombiestan by Mainak Dhar

Listening Length: 6 hours and 25 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Tantor Audio Source: Publisher Taliban soldiers, while surveying the remnants of an air strike on a secret Al-Qaeda meeting, are infected by a virus. They each embark on different travel routes following their … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of A Murder by Karen Spears Zacharias

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week’s featured book is actually a memoir, somehow making it even more chilling: A Silence of Mockingbirds: The … Continue reading

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Audiobook Review: The Inquisitor by Mark Allen Smith

Listening Length: 8 hours and 48 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Macmillan Audio Source: Publisher Geiger’s art is “information retrieval,” he can tell if someone is lying the instant the words are spoken. His methods aren’t always traditional, using physical … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: Carpathia by Matt Forbeck

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week’s featured book is Carpathia by Matt Forbeck: Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Angry Robot (February 28, 2012) ISBN-10: … Continue reading

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Review: Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green

Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (March 13, 2012) ISBN-10: 0312591829 Source: Publisher Andi waited all of her life to find the perfect man, finally finding him at age thirty-seven. Ethan is a wonderful man: hardworking, loving, dedicated. He’s … Continue reading

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Review: A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: William Morrow (April 17, 2012) ISBN-10: 0062088149 Source: Author Nine-year-old Jesse Hall and his older, mute brother Christopher “Stump” live in the small town of Marshall, North Carolina. Jesse is very protective of Stump, a child … Continue reading

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Review: Red, White, and Blood by Christopher Farnsworth

Reading level: Ages 18 and up Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (April 26, 2012) Source: Publisher In the third Nathanial Cade, President’s Vampire book (after The President’s Vampire and Blood Oath), the country is in the midst of a … Continue reading

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Review: The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone

Hardcover: 220 pages Publisher: Hub City Press (March 1, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 189188588X Hector, in an attempt to provide a better life for his wife, Lilia, and infant daughter, pays a coyote to transport him to the United States … Continue reading

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Review: White Horse by Alex Adams

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books (April 17, 2012) ISBN-10: 1451642997 Source: Publisher Thirty-year-old Zoe Marshall work as a janitor for Pope Pharmaceuticals. One day, she returns home to find a jar sitting in her apartment. The source of … Continue reading

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Review: The Inquisitor’s Key by Jefferson Bass

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: William Morrow (May 8, 2012) ISBN-10: 006180679X Source: Author In the seventh volume of the Body Farm series, forensic investigator Dr. Bill Brockton leaves the body farm-an outdoor enclosure that studies various levels of body decay-to … Continue reading

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