Julie’s Review: The premise was interesting, but the story itself was mostly dull. I really didn’t connect with or care for the characters by the time happy(ish) ending rolled around I was thinking “meh”. There wasn’t much of an explanation or back-story (except a little from the big bad at the end), but I guess […]
Julie’s Review: This book had a really good premise, but was boring, plain and simple. I gave up reading the ebook and switched to audio, and that helped. The narrator was great and did all the accents very well. I liked the concepts with the genetic engineering in food, animals, and people, but the story […]
Julie’s Review I really liked the premise of this book. I thought it was unique and mysterious. It starts out with Hugh waking up in a crater completely naked and not having any clue what happened. Then we have Cece who is dealing with her bi-polar hoarder mother and is trying to […]
Julie’s Review I’ve only read about a handful of “steampunk” novels so I’m still a newbie and struggling with the world building. This novel was definitely a struggle for me and I wished I had a dictionary to help me keep up with the types of families and their names and […]
Julie’s Review At first I thought Linked was a dystopian world where the government performed secret horrible experiments on twins. Then I thought it was a sci-fi space opera adventure story. It is really kind of both. This story is fast-paced and exciting, with twists and turns and danger. When Lissa and her twin, […]
Julie’s Review Cinder is definitely a unique retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale. Cinder is an orphan with no memory of who she is. She was told she was in an accident, and needed to be “repaired”, which is why she is now a cyborg. Her adoptive step-father dies of the plague and […]
Julie’s Review Wool has been getting a lot of attention on the internet lately and I had to know what the fuss was all about. The first installment was really intriguing and left me with a lot of curiosity (I grabbed part 1 quickly since it was free, so I ended up buying the […]
Rose’s Review Book Movie This book as been somewhat of an enigma for me. I first purchased this book in audiobook format to occupy my time on a long drive home from South Caroline. I nearly fell asleep and wrecked my car! Now, whether that was because I was simply exhausted by […]