Category: Book Reviews

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh Pages: 260 Genre: Literary Published: August 16, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s I couldn’t be bothered to deal with fixing things. I preferred to wallow in the problem, dream of better days.   3/5 stars Eileen is more about character than plot. The main character, Eileen, has issues....

Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk, Cameron Stewart, David Mack Pages: 256 Genre: Mind-Bending Graphic Novel Published: June 28, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s 1/5 stars I loved Fight Club, both the book and the movie. While I had no desire for a sequel, when I heard it would be a graphic novel, I...

The Stand by Stephen King Pages: 1152 pages (uncut edition) Genre: Dystopian Published: September 1978 (original), May 1990 (uncut version) Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery. 5/5 stars In a typical dystopian novel, it starts well after whatever catastrophe has affected...

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman Pages: 400 Genre: Family Life Published: September 4, 2013 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Elsa decides that even if people she likes have been shits on earlier occasions, she has to learn to carry on liking them. You’d quickly run out...

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty Pages: 415 Genre: Contemporary Published: July 26, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen. It happens just like this. You don’t become someone else. You’re still...

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware Pages: 340 Genre: Murder Mystery Published: July 19, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s My friend Erin says we all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we’re no good, that if we don’t make this promotion or ace that exam we’ll reveal to the...

Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger Pages: 342 Genre: Supernatural Mystery Published: June 7, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Fear holds on. Love lets go.   4/5 stars A young woman who has been plagued with prophetic dreams all her life decides she needs to visit her renowned psychic grandmother in update...

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva Pages: 290 Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Published: July 12, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s The brain is a terrifying and wondrous organ, and all it wants is to survive.   3/5 stars I really liked The Last One, but I didn’t love it. I read it pretty quickly,...

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith Pages: 494 Genre: Mystery Published: October 20, 2015 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s “I do,” said Robin in a ringing voice, looking straight into the eyes, not of her stony-faced new husband, but of the battered and bloodied man who had just sent her flowers crashing to the...

Saga: Vol. 1-6 by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist) Pages: 928 Genre: Science Fiction Published: October 23, 2012 – July 5, 2016 Purchase: Book (Vol. 1-3) | Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5 | Vol. 6 5/5 stars I had heard only good things...