S.K. Ryder's Blog
September 22, 2021
Review: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but ...
July 23, 2021
Review: Falling, T.J. Newman
You just boarded a flight to New York.
There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.
What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.
For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.
The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.
Enjoy the flight.
Amazon ReviewHoly cow, this fligh...
May 23, 2021
Review: Recursion, Blake Crouch
Reality is broken.
At first, it looks like a disease. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. But the force that’s sweeping the world is no pathogen. It’s just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery—and what’s in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself.
In New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the t...
April 5, 2021
Review: The Queen’s Weapons
Enter the dark and sensual realms of the Black Jewels, a world where power always has a price, in this sweeping story in the New York Times bestselling fantasy saga.
They are Warlord Princes, men born to serve and protect. They are the Queen’s Weapons, men born to destroy the Queen’s enemies–no matter what face that enemy wears.
Daemonar Yaslana knows how to be bossy yet supportive–traits he shares with his father, the Demon P...
March 7, 2021
Review: The End of October
SynopsisAt an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pa...
February 27, 2021
Review: Paradise (Series)
SynopsisIrene Steele shares her idyllic life in a beautiful Iowa City Victorian house with a husband who loves her to sky-writing, sentimental extremes. But as she rings in the new year one cold and snowy night, everything she thought she knew falls to pieces with a shocking phone call: her beloved husband, away on business, has been killed in a helicopter crash. Before Irene can even process the...
February 7, 2021
Review: Her Last Flight
SynopsisIn 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam’s fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, who...
January 23, 2021
Review: The Dog Stars
SynopsisHig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.
But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists out...
Introducing: 5-Star Reviews
2020 was tough on us. Amidst all the bad news and despair I had no energy or motivation to write creatively. I did, however, get lost–happily, deliciously, utterly–in stacks and stacks of books.
Now, with the new year dawning, I am venturing back into writing in a small way by penning book reviews. These will be books from every genre, fiction, non-fiction, new and old, whatever grabs my interest. Really, the only thing they will have...
November 23, 2018
Announcing: Dark Destinies Prequel
Reality as he knows it is about to change—into a nightmare without end.
Dominic Marchant’s peaceful life on the island paradise of Saint Barthélemy comes to a terrifying end the night his sister is brutally assaulted by three cartel hitmen. When he charges to her rescue against overwhelming odds, he not only leaves a man dead, but...
