Reviews and Comments

I LOVED All Systems Red. Murderbot might be my new favorite character in all of Sci-Fi. I had to read this for my first grad school class at Emerson, and it was an overall winner. Highly recommended if you like Sci-Fi, or if you like character-driven stories that are quick-paced, with decent action and good suspense. I will most definitely be adding the other Murderbot books to my TBR pile.

It definitely had it's good moments. And it definitely had it's OMG-WTF moments. Was that because of the timeframe it was written? Cultural differences? I'm not sure, but man it probably wouldn't be published today. It was good to read something so different than a Western novel, but overall I didn't think it was great.

Really good book. Not something I would've read on my own, but definitely a must-read for anyone wanting to learn about life in Vietnam.

It was okay. Started off really good, but lost my interest along the way. Not my cup of tea, but I had to read it for school. It was interesting from the perspective of seeing how other countries/cultures/people tell stories, so that I liked.

It was good. I'm a little ticked off by the cliffhanger ending, but not royally pissed. It didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book. However, I was very underwhelmed. I picked this up cause I've heard a lot of good things about it, but not one single section or chapter left me saying, "Whoa!" It's just stuff that happened and then the end, or kind of end. I wish there was more to it.

A good start to the Witcher series. If you like the Netflix show, you will like this. Most of season 1 came from the stories in this collection. I've only played the game briefly, so I don't know how the storylines stack up there. I knew I would like the "story" and premise, having enjoyed the Netflix series, but was worried about the writing - being translated an all. But it was quite enjoyable and I think I would've liked it even if I hadn't seen the TV show first. A decent amount of world-building without paragraph upon paragraph of the history of things. Highly recommended. I have the next two waiting for me, but might switch it up to something else before starting them.

One of the better books I've read on the craft of writing. Up there with On Writing by Stephen King and The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner. Definitely recommended and I cannot wait to put some ideas of this book to use on the novels I'm working on.

Stopped on page 45. I just couldn't get into it at all. This was not the book for me...

Really good. Was written as a satirical take on ghost stories of the time, it ended up being a fairly scary, and rather original ghost story.

Fantastic! I'll definitely be checking out more of Malfi's work. Thanks to the SNHU Book Club for turning me onto this one.

This was a tight, tense horror that was more of a creeping, eerie terror that settled into your bones, than a jump-scare horror or blood&guts horror. Very well written with nothing the felt extraneous. The ending was BEAUTIFUL. Highly recommended