April Reading List

April
6. 28 - Jason - Laurell K Hamilton (4/26) $$/Nook - 2 Stars
5.27 - Dead City - Joe McKinney (4/20) free/library - 5 Stars
4.26 - Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (4/17) free/library - 5 Stars!!!!
3.25 - Nightlife - Rob Thurman (4/14) - free/own - 4 Stars
2.24 - Still Alice - Lisa Genova (4/10) - free/library - 3 stars
1.23 - The Shadows - JR. Ward (4/9) free/library - 5 Stars!!!


let's see

The Shadows was excellent, I'm pretty much always happy with the Warden. I'm SO excited for the spin off series, and the next main BDB book will be The Beast, so we're revising our friends from the beginning (Wrath, then Rhage, so i guess Z will be next).

Still Alice, this one was hard for me. i enjoyed it to the point where it gave me some insight to Burdette. but it wasn't the most well written book. i'm sure i'll enjoy the movie more when i get around to watching it.

Nightlife, I like Cal, i like his brother. I enjoyed the whole premise. but i'm not really sure if i'll find the next one.

Ready Player One. Read this book..now, go do it now. pull up ibooks, get on your kindle, your nook. put it on hold at the library. just go. no...i'll give you a minute.. you back? ok. This books was excellent. probably my absolute favorite read of the month. it's video games, books, comics, pop culture. all from the 80's. i got all the references. but what i really loved, more than anything, was the message. "go fix the world, instead of living in social media, go fix your life, instead of creating a fake one online." I can.not.wait. for his next book, Armada. it's The Last Starfighter meets Galaga.

Dead City. This book was also really good. It's what The Walking Dead tv show could have been. Had Rick not been in a coma to miss the start of the zombie apocalypse, the confusion. our main character is a cop, on the front lines of the start, and so much of it is "well, these are PEOPLE...are they sick? are they dead? do we shoot them? omg they're eating other people." it was surreal, and terrifying. our MC is a parent, i literally felt his fear and frustration of not being able to get to his family, to his baby son. there were parts that made me sick to my stomach with parent-fear. and i loved it. I'll be starting the next one Apocalypse of the Dead in just a couple days.

Jason...oh Jason..Laurell...really? let's put this out here right now, this is straight up smut. there is nothing, and i mean literally, nothing else to this particular book. at least with Micah there was a point. but no, Jason has no point except group sex. It's not BAD. i'll put that out there too, i have no problem with it. and honestly i LIKED that she went over all Anita's relationship tangles in the beginning. it was a good refresher of who everyone is to her before Dead Ice comes out (august i think). I loved the Anita books in the beginning, probably books 1-6, i'll even go so far as to say books 1-8. then she just lost it. LKH went through a nasty divorce, and her characters changed. she got remarried, they changed. she got into a poly relationship, so did Anita. and that's ok, really, because her art imitates her life. If you don't like that, don't read them. but, BUT. she lost her continuity. we started drowning in HUGE lake sized plot holes. LKH has since gotten a new editor to put her back on track. she's killed off people who didn't need to be there to keep the story good, and the issues are going back to "preternatural case of the week" rather than, what big evil bad vampire do i have to kill, again. because it's the same one, over and over. but, didn't we already kill you in the last book?! yup.

I'm currently reading
The Maze Runner
The Dead Travel Fast
Apocalypse of the Dead