Major Cordell McDaniels is given the most important mission of his career: lead a Special Forces team into New York City to rescue the one man, and his daughter, who can stop the ghastly virus that reanimates the dead.
The ‘Zeds’ or ‘Stenches’ as the zombies are called, infest the streets, making the Big Apple nearly inescapable. What makes this terrible turn even more...
The City of Angels has always been there for the lost and the damned
Containment Team 6 is sent to destroy a spreading evil most of the world thinks is myth. Vampires.
Things get messy in their mission, as one of their own is taken. The vampires have plans of their own.
Our heroes’ mission becomes a search and rescue, until they find...
Ever since their college days, five friends get together to play a game. They call it the Apocalypse Game. They even keep track from week to week what number they are up to. This week, Scenario #683. However, our presenter is absent, and sends her scenario via voice recording. Her friends wonder, worry even. Do they really know what she does for a living?
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This book holds many short novella style stories. I will review each one here for ease.
Countdown: This is the prequel to Feed. It’s a little bit on the history of the viral manipulation and incidents to cause the Kellis-Amberly virus we see in Feed. It’s pretty much the story of how medical research is wonderful, but as often that happens through history, humans have...
There was no way I was going to pass this book up...I mean, I literally counted down the days until its release. I had pre-ordered.
We find our gang back at it. Yay, George! Yay Shaun! Dr Abbey! The giant scary dog, which are outlawed for being over 40 pounds, but hey, he is well trained.
We finally get to see why and...
With Georgia Mason gone, her adoptive brother Shawn is on a self destructive rampage. The News Organization he built with his much loved sister is at a loss as Shawn spends much of his time poking dead things with sticks, and trying to piece together just what the government is up to. When he is confronted with a new lead, suspicion runs amok, but that doesn't...
In the not so distant future, we see a cure for both cancer and the common cold. Somehow, the two come together and create something completely new, turning the dead into zombies, and infecting those bitten or scratched. It's a world where blood tests and a shower of bleach is a daily, or many times a day, routine.
Our heroes are the new world's journalists,...
A few years ago, I set about to read as many of the classics as I could. I think so many of us talk about how much we love them without really being honest about reading them.
This book was difficult at best to get through. The premise of the story is brilliant and we all are pretty familiar with it from TV, movies, cartoon...
Another review of the source material for the Marvel Avengers movies. Once again, this is the source material, if you have only seen the movies, they loosely follow the concept. Previously I reviewed Infinity War here, this story to me is a bit closer to what was used in the movies...but not really. Here, the bad guy is someone called the Magus, the evil alter-ego of...
So let me start by saying that I read this book because I was video chatting with my teenage daughter one night (I'm currently deployed) and I asked her what she was currently reading. Her excitement over this book made me go on Amazon and immediately buy it so we could read it together and discuss during our video chats.
It is a Young Adult...
Reader beware, if you are expecting the movies to have followed the source material religiously, you will be sadly mistaken. That said, the source material was that good, they used the basis of it for a movie, well several movies really.
This compilation has Thanos as a...well I'm not sure really. He seems to be a good guy at times and at others he's the...
Area 187: Almost Hell, by Eric R Lowther is one of the best zombie books I’ve read in years. It is a stand-alone book, very long, but always exciting. It takes a look at the whole zombie genre from a different view. Rather than a worldwide apocalypse, this little outbreak happens within a small region of the United States, quartered off and labeled as Area 187.
So for starters, if you are thinking about passing on this book because it's a Star Wars novel, don't. This is a great story no matter what the source material is. Well written and complete with thought out characters.
The book follows the origin story of Captain Phasma, the silver Storm Trooper leader featured in the newest Star Wars films. The story gives insight to...
Fashionably Dead is the 1st book in the Hot Damned series by Robyn Peterman
Astrid is a teacher at a senior center, teaching art to a bunch of highly opinionated and misbehaving seniors. She also needs to stop smoking, while trying not to graze like a cow on speed. Unfortunately, the visit to a hypnotist at the local strip mall isn't quite what...
I first became familiar with Franz Kafka after a visit to the Czech Republic with my wife in 2017. We both fell in love with the country, especially Prague. I had heard of Kafka before that visit but had not read any of his work. We saw a large mechanical bust of Kafka while in Prague and then began to see other homages to the...
I would like to give this book a short synopsis before delving into my review of the actual book. I will try to avoid spoilers at all cost during this review and warn the reader if a spoiler does slip in.
Synopsis: In a utopian world there is no more crime, politics, war, or famine. Thanks to the most advance version of...
shibumi (渋ã¿) (noun)
A particular aesthetic of simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty.
Shibumi means 'Effortless Perfection'. Shibumi is anything that is quiet in refinement, noble and fulfilling in a manner that is not shaped exclusively by analytical thought.
The novel Shibumi, by Trevanian (the pen name for Rodney William Whitaker), is a novel published in 1979 about an...
This is book #8 in the Iron Druid Chronicles. It stars Atticus O'Sullivan, who is a 2,000 year old Druid,and his loyal Irish wolfhound, Oberon. He makes a potion he calls Imortali-tea that keeps them both alive. It makes them young again. They are battling with an old vampire,and his followers, who wiped out the rest of the Druids when Atticus was a fairly new druid
A classic but enjoyable from start to finish. It's the story of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, desperate for aid after their chief export is copied, they plan an invasion of the United States and a swift defeat, knowing that the US rebuilds countries it conquers. There's one problem, the Duchy wins the war. They arrive in NY during a massive air raid drill with the...
Quite possibly the greatest thing this collection has to offer is not the short stories it contains, but a look into the creative process of the author himself. Before each entry, Mr. King provides the reader with some insight into the evolution, spark of an idea, and/or history of the story you are about to read. That is not to say that the stories are lacking....
I recently had the opportunity to read The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, and I am delighted to have done so. Lewis has a particular way of writing that immerses one into his world and allows you to see your own from a new perspective by introducing you to a collection of interesting characters. There is a particular scene that Lewis paints within his story that...
One of my colleagues in the office recently bought a box set of books by C.S. Lewis. I was familiar with Lewis through his “Chronicles of Narnia†and his masterpiece “Till We Have Faces†but I had never before read his philosophical works. My first book of this kind by Lewis was “The Screwtape Letters†of which I have done a review for, however this second...
I wanted to love this book, I really did. Maybe a small part of me even loved it a little, however, it was a love one might have for a relative they barely know. You love them out of sense of family but it goes no deeper than that. To me, that is Ahsoka. Now to be fair, I hated Ahsoka the character the very first...
Even after multiple readings of Ernest Cline’s debut novel, I still find myself excited to turn each page. I had almost forgotten what a nostalgia trip this book was. Once I cracked it open again, it all came back to me. I should point out that the book is more than a collection of 1980s references. There is indeed a lot of substance to this book....
Out on Hulu currently is a series based on the Margaret Atwood book, The Handmaid's Tale. I read this book a few month's ago, prior to know of the existence of the series. I have watched one episode so far and was not disappointed at all. But this review is not about the series, it is about the book itself. The Handmaid's Tale is set in...