Category: Book Reviews

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Pages: 439 Genre: Horror Published: 1975 Going into reading ‘Salem’s Lot after finishing Carrie, I was expecting to be scared. Parts of Carrie were creepy and I thought since this was King’s second novel that he would build upon it to actually scare me. It was about vampires,...

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith Pages: 455 Genre: Mystery Published: 2014 A Cormoran Strike Novel In The Silkworm, the second novel from J.K. Rowling under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, the private detective, Cormoran Strike is not so desperate as he was in the first novel. After solving the mystery of the famous model’s murder,...

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer Pages: 208 Genre: Science Fiction Published: 2014 Part One of the Southern Reach Trilogy Series Annihilation falls into a science fiction realm that is parts dystopian, surrealism, and horror. Area X is one part of a continent where the laws of nature do not act like expected. Human civilization...

The Zap Gun by Philip K. Dick Pages: 176 Genre: Science Fiction Published: 1967 Set in 2002, Earth thinks there is a cold war happening between the western and eastern parts of the world called Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Each side has weapon fashion designers that go into a trance...

The Martian by Andy Weir Pages: 387 Genre: Science Fiction The Martian almost lost me twice while reading it. Once I read an excerpt of one of the beginning chapters after I read a rave review. I could not see the allure of it. I know there are raves that...

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling pseudonym) Pages: 456 Genre: Mystery Would I have read this novel if I hadn’t known it was written by J.K. Rowling? Probably not since I usually do not read detective novels. I am not sure why since I love a good...

Carrie by Stephen King Pages: 199 Genre: Horror I recently decided  that I need extra incentive to get myself out walking each day, so I started a subscription to Audible.com to listen to audiobooks while walking. I figured if I only listened to a good story while walking, then...

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Rachel rides the train into work each day and during one section of the ride, the train slows down slightly and she stares at a row of houses that line the tracks. She stares at a happy couple that she has named...

  All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr I normally would not have read this book. It did win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but I am not a fan of books about war so it would not have been something I would have chosen for myself. The...

The 100 by Kass Morgan I found the premise of this book intriguing. Nuclear war has taken place on Earth and a colony of people have lived in spaceships orbiting Earth for 300 years while waiting for the radiation to calm down so they can repopulate. After some tests,...