July 2021 – scintilla.info
Book Review: Pure, Pure Trilogy Book 1, Julianna Baggott Fantasy: Pure, Pure Trilogy Book 1, Julianna Baggott Pressia lives with her grandfather in the ruins of a barbershop. Several years after the “detonations,” nuclear bombs and nanotechnology attacks that transformed the earth, most people live in squalor and terror. The combination of the […]
Book Review: Lord of the Hunt, Sooty Feathers Series Book 2, David Craig Fantasy: Lord of the Hunt, Sooty Feathers Series Book 2, David Craig Blog Tour July 28, 2021 Take a classic gothic tale and move it north into Scotland and you get the basic premise of the Sooty Feathers series. An […]
Book Review: Girls Who Lie, Forbidden Iceland Book 2, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb Mystery: Girls Who Lie, Forbidden Iceland Book 2, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, translated by Victoria Cribb Blog Tour July 26, 2021 Girls Who Lie may be the mostly aptly titled psychological thriller/police procedural I have ever read. Most of the […]
Book Review: Ruabon, Lost Tales of Solace, Karl Drinkwater Science Fiction: Ruabon, Lost Tales of Solace, Karl Drinkwater Blog Tour July 25, 2021 I have this mental image of Karl Drinkwater having created this amazing playground called “Solace,” where the main attractions are two novels featuring a talented and dangerous woman searching for her […]
Book Review: The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden Fantasy: The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden In a near future South Africa, old wars against new in unexpected ways. Old men cling to the rituals they credit with marking their own journeys into manhood, much to the dismay of a teenage boy facing his own […]
Book Review: War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi Fiction: War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi War Girls is one of those books that is categorized YA but I think should be approached with caution by parents and younger readers. It is an excellent book, very powerful and compelling. It is also violent and unflinching in its view […]
Book Review: The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson Mystery/Thriller: The Kind Worth Killing, Peter Swanson Some books should not be started in the evening, especially not the evening before a workday. The Kind Worth Killing is not a “start in the evening” sort of book. First, it has a fast paced intensity that […]
Book Review: Gregor the Overlander, The Underland Chronicles Book 1, Suzanne Collins Shared Reading/Fantasy: Gregor the Overlander, The Underland Chronicles Book 1, Suzanne Collins Gregor is eleven years old, living in a New York City apartment with his mother, grandmother, and two younger sisters. Forced to grow up quickly after the disappearance of […]
Book Review: We Need to Talk, Jonathan Crane Short Story Collection: We Need to Talk, Jonathan Crane Blog Tour July 14, 2021 Sudleigh is a fictional town in the south of England. It’s people are normal. Ordinary. People that you might find in any town in any country. In his collection of intertwined short […]
Book Review: The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson Nonfiction: The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson During the summer of 1854 a cholera outbreak threatened to devastate London. In particular, London’s Soho neighborhood lost many of its residents. Entire households were found dead. Yet from the ashes of this destruction rose a phoenix of discovery that […]