I was a little leery about getting into this book, but I am so glad that I did. What a great zombie book! Instead of dealing with what happens when the zombie outbreak happens, its dealing with how people go on living when the outbreak is controlled but not gone, and it does it very, […]

The Running Man introduces us to Ben Richards, a young man living in 2025 who has been blacklisted and can’t find a job. Growing more desperate, with a sick infant daughter and a wife to take care of, he goes to the headquarters of the Games Network in hopes of landing a spot in one […]

Wow, Wow, Wow. This book was ridiculously good. This review has to start with that because it was my immediate feeling while reading and after reading.  Now, for the details. I picked up Ashes with almost no idea what it was about. From the cover and the little I had heard about it, I knew […]

Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari is a good read, just not quite as good as I wanted it to be. It’s a typical post-apocalyptic story:  After massive flooding and a major virus wipe out most of the world’s  population, those who made it through are struggling to survive while mysterious “sweepers” try  to kidnap them. […]

The dedication of The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly reads “For in every adult dwells the child that was, and in every child lies the adult that will be.” Nothing could better describe this dark fairy tale, a coming of age story about a boy named David.  When his mother dies, she leaves […]

I love finding a great series of books to read after the last one has been published. That is what happened to  me with The Hunger Games trilogy. My friend told me I had to read it, and since I listen to her when it comes to books, I did. The basic premise of the […]