Mar 26 2013
Dear Ms. Godwin: This is a compelling but flawed post apocalypse/science fiction/suspense genre bender with a host of multicultural characters. Unfortunately one race is singled out as the villains which made the entire story sit uncomfortably around my shoulders. Eve was the mother of two and married to a gun dealer. A virus is released(…)
Mar 3 2013
Dear Ms. Dee: This was a book recommended to me after I expressed interest in post apocalyptic books, an interest stoked by the writing of Kylie Scott. “After the End” is a more plot driven, cinematic book and because of that, not as engaging. However, for those who like fast paced action with some human(…)
Mar 1 2013
Dear Ms. Scott: I bought this directly after finishing Flesh and was totally thrilled to be immersed in your evocative post apocalyptic world once again. While the two main characters in this book had a more developed romance, I was still stymied by the heroine’s passivity. I hope in future books we see women who(…)
Feb 22 2013
Dear Ms. Scott: I don’t like post apocalyptic stories. I am not a fan of zombies. Thank goodness for other reader’s recommendations because without them, my own prejudices would make me miss interesting new stories such as this one. Flesh is set 53 days post apocalypse in Brisbane, Australia. Daniel has stumbled upon non infected(…)
Aug 13 2012
Dear Ms. Dennard, It seems like steampunk books are all the rage these days. I admit I’ve yet to find a steampunk YA that I can really get behind but I keep hoping. And if there’s one thing that steampunk novels can’t seem to do without, it’s zombies. I’m pretty ambivalent when it comes to(…)
Feb 8 2012
Dear Ms. Bridges, I first encountered your debut novel on NetGalley. I admit I’ve always been fond of historical YA, especially if there’s a paranormal flavor. Your book sounded like the ticket. It was a nice change of pace from the urban fantasies and dystopians overwhelming the genre right now. The unique setting was just(…)
Oct 31 2011
I am not a big fan of Halloween, except for the seeing the small fry in costume, of course, but I do enjoy a zombie, ghost, or other creature-centric story around this time of year. When I saw that Josh Lanyon had just released a novella called Mummy Dearest, I couldn’t resist, and I thought(…)
Sep 12 2011
Dear Ms. Lario: I requested this book from NetGalley based on the blurb over at BookPushers by MinnChica. This is an Entangled Pub book and the first that I’ve read from this Press. It looked like a very professional product. The epub was nicely formatted (with chapters and everything!) and didn’t have any glaring editing errors. My(…)
Sep 30 2010
Dear authors, I actually remember the various blog posts that inspired this anthology. Which was better: the zombie or the unicorn? It was a hilarious debate that suited the blog format. What I wasn’t sure about was how well this idea would translate to book form. I thought a lot of it depended on the(…)
Sep 30 2010
Dear Ms. Briggs, I got drawn into your Alpha and Omega series after reading the first story, a short story by the same name, in the anthology On the Prowl. I actually read the story at the urging of Janine; on my own I would likely not have picked up a werewolf romance. But Janine(…)
Feb 3 2010
SPOILER ALERT: If you have not read Angel’s Blood, the cover and this entire review will be a spoiler. LOOK AWAY! LOOK AWAY!! Dear Ms. Singh: I’m not certain that I’ll be able to adequately articulate why I enjoyed this book so much but I did. Since the time that I received the book up(…)
Jan 11 2010
Dear Ms. Archer and Ms. D’Arc: When Zoe Archer offered ARC copies of your new two-novella book, Half Past Dead on Twitter, I enthusiastically requested one, with more than a little curiosity about how zombies would work in Romance. I would have to read substantially more books to fully quench that curiosity, but your novellas(…)
Oct 30 2009
Shaun of the Dead (2004) Genre: Romantic zombie comedy Grade: Effing hilarious When I looked ahead on the October calendar and saw that this last Friday would be the day before Halloween, I realized I needed some kind of horror film or monster film or, well you get the picture, to tie in with it.(…)
Jun 2 2009
Dear Ms. St. Crow, I’m familiar the urban fantasy novels you write under the similar name, Lilith Saintcrow. I enjoyed your Dante Valentine series but wasn’t as keen on your next venture, the Jill Kismet books. But I’m always on the hunt for new young adult novels to read so when I heard you had(…)
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