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February 15, 2020
Review: Cut and Run by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker
I had mixed feelings regarding choosing Cut and Run as one of my two free picks from Audible this month. On the one hand, it sounded funny, but kidney thieves? Really? That sounded terrible. So I slept on what to pick and decided to give it a try and you can read my review here: https://www.gilbertstack.com/action
February 9, 2020
Review: The Beast of Devil's Rock by Michael Cole
The Beast of Devil's Rock by Michael Cole is a pretty nasty action/horror novel that you'll want to make certain you do not read while eating. You can read my review here: https://www.gilbertstack.com/horror
February 8, 2020
Review: Random Act by Gerry Boyle
The world today is filled with seemingly random acts of violence--a mugging, a person killed by a stray bullet--there are dozens of examples each month in the news. Gerry Boyle's Random Act is a mystery seeking meaning behind the apparently meaningless violence of modern society and a testament to how one act of violence can lead to many more. It's quite a good mystery. You can read my review here: https://www.gilbertstack.com/mystery-2
February 4, 2020
Review: The Fold by Peter Clines
I have mixed feelings regarding The Fold by Peter Clines. It’s built on a fantastic premise with a subtle mystery that really hooked me. The ending, however, lost all pretense at subtlety, and that was really disappointing. It’s still an interesting book and I’m glad I read it, but it’s nowhere near as powerful as Clines Dead Moon. You can read my review here: https://www.gilbertstack.com/more-sf
February 1, 2020
Review: Red Metal by Mark Greeney and Hunter Ripley Rawlings
Does anyone out there remember Red Storm Rising? It's Tom Clancy's World War III tale and was very popular back when I was in college. A lot has changed since then. The Soviet Union has fallen and America is the world's only superpower, so Mark Greaney and Hunter Ripley Rawlings have written a World War III tale for modern times. It's a fascinating read. You can read my review here: https://www.gilbertstack.com/action
January 28, 2020
Review: House of Teeth by Dan Jolley
If you’re looking for a powerful new urban fantasy, you’ll want to sink your teeth into this new book by Dan Jolley. There is magic in the Louisiana Bayou and Henry Lemarchand is about to find out that his family is right in the middle of it—waging a centuries-old struggle between good and evil. This book has it all—a great back story, a cool magic system (actually two cool magic systems), and a great plot as Henry and his cousin seek to find out how his father really died. In doing so, they may just have to save the world from an ancient evil.
You can read my whole review here: https://www.gilbertstack.com/reviews
January 11, 2020
Review: All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor
Dennis E. Taylor ties up his trilogy quite nicely in this final volume of the Bobiverse. There's some very touching moments here, not to mention the great titanic battle with the hungry genocidal aliens looking for their next meal. You can read my review here: https://www.gilbertstack.com/more-sf
Review: For We Are Many By Dennis E. Taylor
In Book 2 of Dennis E. Taylor's innovative trilogy about a human being turned AI program trying to save all of humanity, all of the problems become a lot more complex--and Bob (in his many iterations) begins to deal with the emotional pain of watching friends grow old and die when he (because he's an AI) is not aging. Then of course there's the mandatory alien threat trying to harvest humanity as a food source. You can read my review of For We Are Many here: https://www.gilbertstack.com/more-sf
January 5, 2020
Review: We Are Legion by Dennis E. Taylor
My brother recommended this book to me a couple of years ago and I loved it, but never quite got around to reading the whole trilogy. Now I'm planning to rectify that so I started with the first book again which was just as funny and exciting the second time around. Here's my review: https://www.gilbertstack.com/more-sf
January 4, 2020
Review: Artemis by Andy Weir
I really enjoyed Andy Weir's book, The Martian, so it was with a great deal of excitement and anticipation that I started his next book, Artemis. Unfortunately, it largely disappointed me. If you want to find out why, please read my review here: https://www.gilbertstack.com/more-sf
