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Book Review: Fear by Michael Grant

Book Review: Fear by Michael Grant

If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting! 'Note: this review is for book five in a series, and will no doubt contain spoilers Regular readers of this site will know that both my husband and I are ardent fans of Michael Grants Gone series. And the...

Book Review: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

Book Review: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

  If theres one thing that Ive learned from watching American TV, its that Americans really do like their guns. Or really, anything that makes other stuff go boom. If Jules Vernes humorous novella'From the Earth to the Moon is anything to go by, this is a widely observed fact, and has been for a good deal of time now. The...

Book Review: BZRK by Michael Grant

Book Review: BZRK by Michael Grant

  In Michael Grants BZRK, theres a war taking place. A war at both the macro and nano levels. In my house, whenever a Michael Grant book arrives, a similar war takes place. The battle to be the first to read it. Unfortunately, my fiance is larger than I am, and has rather a smaller to-read pile, so his supremacy in this area is...

Book Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott

Book Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott

  In my recent review of Chris Priestleys Mister Creecher'I mused on how humanity and physicality are inextricably tied: no matter how transcendant one aims to be intellectually, ethically, and spiritually, ones humanity will always be judged, at the outset at least, by how well one meets the physical criteria of humanness. The idea is...

Book Review: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Book Review: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

My recent foray into the oeuvre of Jules Verne has been enlightening in a number of ways. Ive learned how its possible to write multiple books using a cast that varies between books only by name, and how its possible to arrange for said character to escape whatever end-of-the-world situation in which they find themselves by manipulating...

Book Review: Prized by Caragh OBrien

Book Review: Prized by Caragh O'Brien

Debut novelist Caragh OBrien surprised me last year with her thoughtful postapocalyptic novel Birthmarked, in which global warming has devastated the Earths population, leading to a careful division of the genetic haves and the genetic have notes in an attempt to prolong humanitys viability. Though such a premise is ethically fraught,...

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