By Dorothy Louise Abrams Eastman Books And Publishing, © May 1, 2024 ASIN: B0CW1K33X6 Kindle Version, file size 1497 kb; paperback 473 pages This was an intriguing historical fiction novel set in Cumberland, Northern England, in the 12th century. The main character, Alain, is a youth fostered far from his home, to the circle of…
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Children of Time
By Adrian Tchaikovsky Tor (©2015); Pan Books (©2016); Orbit (©2018) ISBN-13: 978-0316452502 ASIN: B07DN8BQMD Kindle Version, file size 2632 KB; Paperback 640 pages Let me just get right to the point. I loved this book. I cannot say enough good things about it. From the explosive opening chapter to the totally unforeseen twist near the…
1984
By George Orwell 75th Anniversary Edition © 2017, Mariner Books ISBN: 978-1328869333 304 pages Winston Smith is a cog in the nation of Oceania, where the IngSoc Party rules everyone and everything, and Big Brother is always watching. There is no place you can go, no word you can say, no secret you can keep…
The Murderbot Diaries
By Martha Wells. Tordotcom, Publisher. This is a delightful science fiction series which explores “human nature” in a non-human main character known as SecUnit. Told in the form of “diary” entries (only without the dates for each entry), these seven stories get the reader into the narrator’s head. We see/hear the action (and there is…
The Change
By Kirsten Miller William Morrow, Publisher ASIN: B09DGFV64D Kindle version, file size 3797 KB; © 2022 Paperback, 475 pages; © 2023 (Reissue Edition) Jo’s hot flashes come with white-hot rage that she channels by working out. Nessa’s Change came with the Sight. Harriett left her monthly cycles in her rearview mirror, along with caring what…
Dogs of War Duology
Dogs of War: Dogs of War, Book 1 By Adrian Tchaikovsky Head of Zeus Publishing ASIN: B06XXJ4P9H Kindle version; file size 7308 KB; © 2017 Paperback, 352 pages; © 2022 Bear Head: Dogs of War, Book 2 By Adrian Tchaikovsky Head of Zeus Publishing ASIN: B08DJJBQ1M8 Kindle version; file size 3695 KB; © 2021 Paperback,…
The Wayfarer Series
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet ISBN-13: 978-0062444134 Kindle Version, file size 3004 KB; © 2015 Paperback, 464 pages; © 2016 A Closed and Common Orbit ISBN-13: 978-0062569400 Kindle Version, file size 1251 KB; © 2016 Paperback, 384 pages; © 2017 Record of a Spaceborn Few ISBN-13: 978-0062699220 Kindle Version, file size 3471…
The Man With the Butterfly Mind
By Fabian Foley Thorpe-Bowker, Publisher ISBN-13: 978-0645674637 Kindle version, file size 796 KB; © 2023 Paperback, 327 pages; © 2023 Where is Ash? He never came home, and only Bimba knows he’s missing. She doesn’t know what happened, but she has to find him. Yet how is a small dog with no bark going to…
Pieces of Her
By Karin Slaughter William Morrow, Publisher ASIN: B074DTKCR3 Kindle version, file size 5395 KB; © 2018 Paperback, 476 pages; © 2019 Wow … this story starts out with a huge bang in the first chapter, and rarely lets up throughout the book. Andy’s helpless failure attitude is thrown shrieking to the winds when her mother’s…
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
By Glendy Vanderah © 2019, Lake Union Publishing ASIN: B07CWSPSMX Kindle version; file size 5390 KB Paperback, 333 pages. Grad student and cancer survivor Jo is isolated in a remote cabin, working on her thesis, when a young girl shows up at her place barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, claims…