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Posts Tagged ‘post-apocalyptic’

REVIEW: Hidden by Eve Kenin

By Jane • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Kenin:
I was anxious to read Hidden, the second in your new futuristic romance series. While not as revelatory to me as Driven, Hidden still has all the elements that attracted me to your work in the first place.
In Driven we saw the downfall of the ruler of North, leaving [...]



REVIEW: the dead and the gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer

By Jia • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Pfeffer,
Your previous novel, Life As We Knew It, completely blew me away. Your vision of earth overcome by a disrupted climate affected me in a way that hasn’t happened in a very long time. And since I can’t get enough of apocalyptic settings, no matter the genre, I was beside myself when [...]



REVIEW: Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

By Jia • Mar 18th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Andrews,
When I read your first novel, Magic Bites, I was struck by your fresh worldbuilding. Sometimes I feel like many urban fantasy novels feature similar worldbuilding details. Execution makes all the difference, of course, but because of those similarities, I really appreciate unique worldbuilding when a book presents it to me. That said, [...]



REVIEW: Twist by Colby Hodge

By Jia • Feb 6th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Hodge,
I greatly enjoyed the first batch of books Shomi published last year, so I’ve been looking forward to the imprint’s second offering. Yours is the first of those I’ve read, and for the most part, I am not disappointed.
Abbey Shore works her way through architectural school by flipping houses. Her latest project [...]