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Feb 08, 2016 04:31PM


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Carol, how is it? Have you read anything else by her? I'm trying to decide which series to start with of hers.


Awesome, thank you!

- the Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy (book #1) - Douglas Adams
- Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
Currently Reading:
- Vision In Silver (The Others book #3) - Anne Bishop

I'm currently reading Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama for my RL book club.

I love reading thrillers because they keep me inspired and excited and I love Dresden stuff and that genre because magic is not so far from science.
Just think about Back to the Future when Michael was playing Jimmy Hendrix music in the fifties. It would have seemed like magic to those people...especially the Doc's car!



Still worth a read though.

I love his prose. It is always very interesting. Not as fast a read as a Cussler, or Jim Butcher, or Andre Norton's old Witch World series, but always imaginative and thoughtful.
His characters are always fun to root for; and you always get plenty of opportunities to be doing that!

His reads are like Cussler's. Fast and furious. Love them all to death.
Give this one, a YA series, a five stars.The Orphan Army




It's gotten much more interesting as it develops. Time travel in the Nazi times combined with psychic phenomena and a touch of fantasy which is nicely blended.
Loving it.
Just biting my nails until the new Dresden book comes out from Jim Butcher. Gotta be the best urban fantasy stuff I've ever read. Though there's lots of great stuff out there.


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I thought this series from Neill was mediocre at best. I do plan on checking out the second book when it's released, but it will be a make or break book in the series for me and I plan on getting it from the library. That way the only thing I out of is my time.

I've read Rot & Ruin (and the other novels, the shorts/collection and the graphic) ... how does the audio compare, I wonder?

It's a thoughtful mix of politics, Nazi hatred, time travel, love and friendship. About surviving the odds and coming out on top, even when you lose.

I can see what you mean. Personally I really enjoy the setting - the whole New Orleans vibe, the para prison, the corrupt system thats mean to be keepin everything in check - some of the powers, the old lady is interesting - but otherwise there's not much separating this book from a lot of other UF. I feel very meh about the characters, they're not bad but they're also not spectacular. An the two MCs keep drooling all over one another, not sure how they get anything done. lol.

It's a great sci-fi, fantasy blend which pits several families against a group of scientists using wrongful technology on innocent people and several families who lose their children as a result of some kind of occult creature that has been loosed.
Othewise, I am just several chapters from leaping into my next book, which I'm hoping to be one of the Simon Green ones from his series, of which I've read about a half dozen. I love his blend of science fiction elements with totally off the wall occult and fantasy stuff like dead gods, demons, vampires, and so forth. The Nightside Series and his other...the Drood series.

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