Category: Reviews

Book Review – Prisoner

Book Review – Prisoner

  Lynn’s Review: Prisoner is the second book in The Traveler series by Dennis W. Green. (You can read my review of Traveler here.) Trav Becker is back. Along with all of the other Travs. And Sams. A year has past since the first book in the series. A year in which Trav has moved […]

Posted September 4, 2015 by Lynn in Reviews / 2 Comments
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Unwind Review

Unwind Review

 Julie’s Review: Unwind caught me by surprise and blew me away. Seriously, it tackles a very sensitive topic head-on (abortion) and creates a scary world where unwanted children can be “storked” (abandoned on someone’s doorstep) and can later be “unwound” rather than aborted. Unwinding is taking someone apart organ by organ to use for transplants […]

Posted August 31, 2015 by Julie S. in Reviews / 7 Comments
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Book Review – Armada

Book Review – Armada

  Lynn’s Review: If you’ve ever read a contemporary science fiction book and wondered why there is no mention of any other contemporary science fiction in the book, then Armada is the book for you. In Armada, Ernest Cline posits that for forty years, society has been enjoying science fiction in movies, tv, and books […]

Posted August 28, 2015 by Lynn in Reviews / 10 Comments
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Book Review – The Tournament

Book Review – The Tournament

  Lynn’s Review: There have been numerous books (both fiction and non-fiction) and movies about Queen Elizabeth I. The Tournament takes a unique perspective by positing a story from Bess’s little known youth. In The Tournament, Bess, her tutor Roger Ascham and his colleague Gilbert Giles travel to Constantinople to the Sweet 16 of chess […]

Posted August 21, 2015 by Lynn in Reviews / 4 Comments
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The City Center by Simone Pond Review

The City Center by Simone Pond Review

 Julie’s Review: The City Center is an interesting futuristic dystopia with sci-fi elements that I found very interesting. The people living in the City Center are genetically engineered to be a certain way, and only later do we realize the true sinister purpose for this. I thought the overall premise was great, the main character […]

Posted August 17, 2015 by Julie S. in Reviews / 4 Comments
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Book Review – All Played Out

Book Review – All Played Out

  Lynn’s Review: All Played out is the one where an introverted nerd meets and extroverted jock and they fall into instant love. Oh, read that one already? Yeah, me, too. All Played Out is about Nell De Luca and Mateo Torres. It is #3 in the Rusk University series from Cora Carmack. Nell is […]

Posted August 14, 2015 by Lynn in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Red Rising Review

Red Rising Review

 Julie’s Review: My feelings on Red Rising have flopped back and forth from “woa this is awesome/shocking” to “ugh so slow”. Let’s back up – this book is praised all over, and is often compared to The Hunger Games (well, all dystopia books are anyway). I didn’t really think of this as a YA, and […]

Posted August 10, 2015 by Julie S. in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Paper Towns Book vs Movie Review

Paper Towns Book vs Movie Review

Description: Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, PAPER TOWNS is a coming-of-age story centering on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbor Margo, who loved mysteries so much she became one. After taking him on an all-night adventure through their hometown, Margo suddenly disappears – leaving behind cryptic clues for Quentin to decipher. The […]

Posted August 7, 2015 by Lynn in Movie Reviews / 12 Comments
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Awoken by Sarah Noffke Review

Awoken by Sarah Noffke Review

 Julie’s Review: This review is in Audible.com format. What did you love best about Awoken? I really enjoyed the characters and their interactions, as well as the special abilities this group of people has in addition to dream traveling. What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting? Learning about the Lucidites […]

Posted August 3, 2015 by Julie S. in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Book Review – Traveler

Book Review – Traveler

  Lynn’s Review: Think back to June 7, when our Chat Between the Chapters topic was sci fi. Terri from Second Run Reviews mentioned a book – Traveler. Full disclosure time: I won a copy from her blog and author Dennis W. Green. (Thanks again Terri and Dennis!) And Terri was correct. Traveler is a […]

Posted July 31, 2015 by Lynn in Reviews / 9 Comments
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