Croak (Croak, #1)
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Fed up with her wild behavior, sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to...
Gina Damico Croak Grim Reaper Delinquent Young Adult Fantasy
Spirit Circle
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Fuuta Okeya can see ghosts. Besides that—and the bandage he always keeps on his cheek—he's a...
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Black Swan Collected Tales, Books 1-6
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Included are: Book 1, My Familiar Stranger: The Vampire Hunters. (Nominated for best paranormal...
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Cyn Armistead (14 KP) rated Fantasy in Death (In Death, #30) in Books
Mar 1, 2018
What hit me the most, though, was nostalgia for the dot com boom. The portrayal of the hot start-up company with its open, cheerful offices full of tech toys and energy, well-paid employees on fire with ideas and enthusiasm happily burning the midnight oil to work on exciting projects—I remember those days! Okay, the technology wasn't as advanced as the stuff in the book, but I can relate.
I always enjoy the portrayal of Dallas and Roarke's relationship as a mature partnership. It is a bit clich&ecuted at this point that every case has some aspect that justifies bringing in Roarke as a civilian consultant, but it's part of the formula. The sex is somewhat paint by numbers by now, too, but as prolific as Robb/Roberts is, I'm wondering if she has templates for different series and she has her own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate">Stratemeyer Syndicate</a>-type operation going on somewhere. (I've never read anything but the Eve Dallas books, so please take that as the joke it's meant to be!)
I was a little disappointed in the reveal, as I felt that the bad guy was too obvious. I won't say more, as I don't want to give anything away. I'll probably continue reading the series, but I'm past feeling an urgent need to grab them as soon as they come out, and this definitely isn't one of the few series that I could re-read and enjoy.
David McK (3425 KP) rated Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Written by a ex-navy man, it's easy to see the influnece of his career in the pages: this is 'real' science-fiction, not science-fantasy, with the space battles obeying the laws of physics as we know them. The plot outline is also somewhat remniscient of the new series of BattleStar Galactica, with a smaller rag-tag force being chased by a numerically superior foe. Ironically, this book was first released at around the same time as that series came on TV, with (in this edition) the author claiming that that WAS NOT an inspiration (in the interview at the end), as if he'd been thinking of BSG it woud've been the older series.
With the way the book opens I must also admit that, at first, I thought I'd missed something: the best corollary I can think of is as if the film Aliens (that's the one with the 'S') had started without the whole prologue of them finding Ripleys life pod: you'd be able to infer what had happened, but would be feeling a bit lost at first.
The Sea Peoples: A Novel of the Change
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S. M. Stirling’s Novels of the Change are a “truly original combination of postapocalyptic...
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Mansions of Madness: Second Edition
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Description from the publisher: Mansions of Madness: Second Edition is a fully cooperative,...
Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) rated Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game in Tabletop Games
Mar 7, 2018
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures is a miniatures game of space combat for 2 players. The game players in about 30-60 minutes and can be expanded to accommodate more players.
Reviewer: Tony MastrangeliRead the full review here: https://www.boardgamequest.com/x-wing-miniatures-board-game-review/
Elysium Fire
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Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable...
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