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Book Review : Lock In by John Scalzi

[amazon_link id=”0765375869″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Lock In Author : John Scalzi Genre : Sci-fi Publisher : Tor Pages: 336 Publish Date : August 26, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Amazingly, I lover-of-all-that-is-hard-science-fiction hadn’t read John Scalzi before. I corrected that by reading “Lock In” who’s protagonist is a […]

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Audiobook Review : Everything Changes by Jonathan Tropper

[amazon_link id=”0385337426″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Everything Changes Author : Jonathan Tropper Genre : Contemporary Narrators : Scott Brick Publisher : Books on Tape Listening Length : 10 hrs 8 min Source : Library Rating : 4/5 Everything Changes is told in the first person by our hero, Zachary King, a young executive in […]

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Book Review : Invisible City by Julia Dahl

[amazon_link id=”1250043395″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Invisible City (Rebekah Roberts Novels) Author : Julia Dahl Genre : Mystery Publisher : Minotaur Books Pages: 304 Publish Date : May 6th, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4.2/5 Rebekah Roberts is a journalist, a stringer to be precise. She has been working for […]

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Book Review : Honor’s Knight by Rachel Bach

[amazon_link id=”0316221082″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Honor’s Knight (Paradox #2) Author : Rachel Aaron/Bach Genre : Sci-Fi Publisher : Orbit Books Publish Date : February 25th 2014 Pages : 384 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Bach continues her story from where she left off in the 1st book of the trilogy, Fortune’s […]

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Book Review : Dark Eden by Chris Beckett

[amazon_link id=”0804138680″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Dark Eden Author : Chris Beckett Genre : Sci-fi Publisher : Broadway Books (Crown Publishing) Pages: 448 Publish Date : April 1st, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Dark Eden reminded me of Shaman. But while Shaman was of evolution on earth, Dark Eden […]

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Book Review : The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh

[amazon_link id=”0812995201″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Weight of Blood Author : Laura McHugh Genre : Mystery Publisher : Spiegel & Grau (Random House) Pages: 320 Publish Date : March 11th, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4.5/5 Lucy Dane has grown up in the small rural town of Henbane, in […]

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Book Review : The Martian by Andy Weir

[amazon_link id=”0804139024″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Martian Author : Andy Weir Genre : Sci-fi Publisher : Crown (Random House) Pages: 385 Publish Date : February 11th, 2014 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 5/5 From the book blurb : Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first men […]

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Audiobook Review : Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

[amazon_link id=”B008Y5VE3U” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Gone Girl Author : Gillian Flynn Genre : Mystery Narrators : Kirby Heyborne and Julia Whelan Publisher : Random House Audio Listening Length : 19 hrs 11 min Source : Library Rating : 5/5 Nick Dunne and Amy Elliot Dunne have been married five years, when on the […]

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Audiobook Review : Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

[amazon_link id=”B00817T8DO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Cold Sassy Tree Author : Olive Ann Burns Narrator : Tom Parker Publisher : Blackstone Audio Listening Length: 12 hours and 54 minutes Source : Library Rating : 5/5 This novel is situated in the fictional town of Cold Sassy, Georgia. It is told from the view-point of […]

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Book Review : The Indian Tycoon’s Marriage Deal by Adite Banerjie

Title : The Indian Tycoon’s Marriage Deal Author : Adite Banerjie Genre : Romance Publish Date : September 1st, 2013 Publisher : Harlequin Source : Author Rating : 3.5/5 It’s been a really long time since I’ve read Mills & Boons. If you know not what these are, they are romances where the men are […]

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