The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Maybe I’m burned out on dystopian fiction, but I wasn’t blown away by this book. Each short chapter reads like a vignette with a lot going in it to set the atmosphere and mood, but not much actually happens. It’s not that The Unit [...]
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
After the end of Catching Fire, I, like most readers, said, "Nooooooo" because it would be months before Mockingjay would be released. Luckily, the months-long wait for the final book of the trilogy is definitely worth it. The ending was satisfying and it’s interesting to [...]
Resenting the Hero by Moira J. Moore
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I liked the world and most of the characters, but the main character was self-centered and had a serious inferiority complex. Luckily, she seemed to have developed and matured. Can’t wait to start the next book.
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The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The first half of this book, which introduced the protagonist, Gen, and supporting characters, was incredibly dull. I didn’t particularly like Gen throughout most of this book. He was selfish, arrogant, whiney, and didn’t seem pleasant to be around at all. Because of him, [...]
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I don’t know what took me so long to read an Ursula Le Guin sci-fi novel, but I’m glad I finally did. The Lathe of Heaven starts off with George Orr, a seemingly ordinary guy with a very extraordinary talent: his dreams [...]
The Passage by Justin Cronin
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Someone give this man an editor! The whole book could have been cut down to half its length. There are pages after pages of needless filler, only making me roll my eyes at all the trite, cliched paragraphs I was actually reading. I know it’s supposed [...]
Late to the party considering Amazon’s Kindle 3 got announced yesterday, but here’s my Kindle 2 review.
I was one of those who scoffed at the device when the Kindle first came out. It looked like some gadget out of the 80s, all angled and clumsy looking. When the Kindle 2 with its rounded corners and [...]
