Category: Book Reviews

The Dead Zone (Book)

There were parts of this book that I really enjoyed and other parts that I feel that if I had read this earlier in my life, I might have been bored with, but due to the time I read it, I was hooked....

The Long Walk

After reading four Bachman stories (Rage, The Running Man, Roadwork), this one is my favorite. It is so dreary with no hope, and yet, I really enjoyed it....

Faithless

The fifth book in the Grant County series was a solid story, but it wasn’t my favorite. That isn’t to say that there is anything wrong with it, but I didn’t find it as compelling as the previous three that I have read in the series. It was along...

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is a post-modern novel that becomes obsessed with its own meta-ness. The structure is odd where it is like 10 stories contained in one book, each written in a different genre. It totally sounded like something that would be up my alley,...

Indelible (Grant County #4)

Indelible is the fourth book in the Grant County series, which takes place in a fictional town in Georgia. It centers on three main characters: Sara Linton, the town’s pediatrician and coroner (gotta love small towns); Jeffrey Tolliver, chief of police recently remarried to Sarah; and Detective Lena Adams,...

The Walking Dead, Vol. 23: Whispers Into Screams

Most of this volume focuses on what is going on at Hilltop. Maggie is in charge and there is a new danger out there in the woods. The Whispers first appear as the latest big bad. The Walking Dead, Vol. 23: Whispers Into Screams by Robert Kirkman Pages: 136Genre: Graphic Novel,...

Beartown

Have you ever cried while reading a book in public? This almost happened to me while reading Beartown. I should have known better. At a certain point while reading another book by Fredrik Backman (My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry), I started crying and didn’t stop until...

Saga, Volume 8

The eighth volume for Saga was way more light-hearted than volume seven, which was extremely dark and sad. I remember having to step away from the story a bit after finishing that volume. Saga, Volume 8 by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples Pages: 146Genre: Graphic Novel, Science FictionPublished:...

Behind Closed Doors

I don’t understand any of the reviews that compare this book to Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train. Besides those books and this one being thrillers, they don’t have much in common. Those books both deal with unreliable narrators. I never felt that the protagonist was unreliable....

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

This was a fun story to read during October. I don’t believe I have ever actually read the story of the Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane before, even though I knew the story well. I had watched the old Disney cartoon many times as a child, and images of...