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Avid reader of SFF. Husband, father, educator. My current TBR should last me through 2163…
5/5 stars. Exiles by Mason Coile. Releases on Sept 16, 2025. Read full review in pics below. Highly recommended! #netgalley #exiles
11.08.2025 06:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book Review: Solar Lottery by Philip K Dick
4/5 stars. PKD is an impressive writer. This is the third novel by him that I have read. This story depicts a dystopian future that could become a reality, under the right circumstances. I especially enjoyed the ending. Recommended!
Book Review: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca.
4/5 stars overall. LaRocca is a gifted writer but he has a wicked imagination. Please see my full review and break down of each story in the images below.
Highly recommended!
Book Review: An Unnatural Life by Erin K. Wagner
4/5🌟. Recommended reading. See full review in the pictures below.
5/5🌟. City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett. A mystery set in a unique fantasy world. Such a great story! See full review in the pics.
05.08.2025 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4.5/5🌟. The Feeding releases on August 12 in the U.S. Another fun read from Anthony Ryan! See full review in the pictures. #NetGalley #TheFeeding
01.08.2025 14:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4.5/5🌟. Imagine the worst movie killers of the 70s-80s were real, demon-haunted murderers and the US government brought them all together as a special ops unit to handle the most difficult, unusual, evil creatures the world has to offer. Highly recommended! Available 8/5/25. @dgvaldron.bsky.social
27.07.2025 04:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4/5🌟. A short (~315 pages) novel by Megan E. O’Keefe, an exceptionally good writer who creates intriguing worlds with interesting characters. This book is no exception. Highly recommended!!
Full review:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
4/5🌟. This 2nd entry in the DCC books is just as good as the first. Normally, there is a bit of a let down when reading the 2nd of a series this unique, but not here. The audiobook by Jeff Hays is one of my favorite audiobooks ever! Highly recommended!! #netgalley #acebooks
#carlsdoomsdayscenario
Book review for The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace, coming August 2025. See full review below, but I will say that I enjoyed this story immensely. A suspense thriller with elements of historical fiction, sci-fi, and mystery. #netgalley #theonceandfutureme
16.07.2025 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4/5🌟. CJ Box can sometimes wring the emotional juices right out of the reader! Game Warden Joe Pickett always tries to do the right thing, in his job and for his family. We all know, however, that even the best intentions do not always come to fruition. Highly recommended!
08.07.2025 16:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3.5/5🌟, rounded up to 4🌟. This book had a very literary feel to it. Brian McLaren is an excellent writer and has addressed some very interesting ideas in this near-future science fiction novel. Book 1 of a planned trilogy.
Pub date: 7/31/25. #netgalley #thelastvoyage
5/5🌟. Yuval Kordov is an excellent writer who has built an interesting post-apocalyptic world. I am fascinated at the way he uses Christianity in his stories to build and define the humanity of his characters. I enjoy religion in stories and Kordov is very unique in that aspect.
26.06.2025 22:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
5/5🌟. This is my first experience reading anything by Z B Steele and I am impressed with his writing style, his characters, and his world building. This Grimdark story about coming of age and the evils of war features wonderful storytelling. I look forward to reading more by this author!
24.06.2025 17:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl (book 1). 4/5 stars - see the full review in the pictures.
22.06.2025 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4/5🌟. First Riley Sager book. I was impressed with his storytelling and the twists and turns in this story. Great tension, suspense, and decent character development. My wife and I read this story together and had a great deal of fun trying to predict what would happen next.
22.06.2025 03:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
5/5🌟. The conclusion of The Forsaken trilogy is another excellent example of the brilliance of R.J. Barker! He creates wonderfully fantastic worlds & characters who struggle with the very essence of life itself. (Releases 6/24/25) #NetGalley #heartofthewyrdwood #orbitbooksus
21.06.2025 04:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out this article about D. G. Valdron and then go support his Kickstarter campaign for Squad 13. Just one week left!!
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Check out this Kickstarter campaign from D.G. Valdron, author of The Mermaid’s Tale. This new novel, SQUAD THIRTEEN, has a simple premise-horror movie slashers in the army; the execution-funny, gory, existential, creepy, interesting. Sounds like a great read!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/891...
5/5🌟. My first Murakami book was The City and It’s Uncertain Walls, which was a rewrite of this story. I enjoyed both books very much, but for different reasons. This story has much more of a scifi feel, with deeper explanations. I would rank this book in the top 3 of the 8 I have read by HM.
08.06.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4.5/5 🌟. I think I enjoyed this story even more than the first novel in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior. The backstory here of Thera Vane, the Sons of Ramrowan, and the House of Assassins added so much to the history and lore of Lok. I look forward to continuing this series.
31.05.2025 21:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4/5⭐️. The story that I read was not the one I was expecting; however, it was a better, well-written tale of mystery, friendship, mental illness, religious fanaticism, and horror with a depth of story & emotion that pulled me in quickly and kept me reading!
28.05.2025 20:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4.5/5⭐️. This is my 9th Tchaikovsky SF story and one of my favorites. This author’s gift is his ability to humanize his non-human characters. He does a magnificent job of that in this story of lab-created super soldiers. Highly recommended SF and one of Tchaikovsky’s best.
22.05.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
5/5🌟Earth and Empire! What did I just read? This 4th book in the SunEater series is outstanding. Ruocchio does a masterful job of putting the reader directly in the story, with all that Marlowe must endure.
I also listened to parts on Audible and Samuel Roukin is excellent!
5/5🌟. Excellent continuation of Peter McLean’s War for the Rose Throne series. Releases June 19, 2025. Highly recommended. See the full review on my Goodreads. #NetGalley #PavedWithGoodIntentions
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
5/5🌟. I marvel at Tchaikovsky’s ability to create & produce so many novels & stories. This short story is a well-written, quick prequel about what led to the events depicted in last year’s Service Model. We get an impression of what happened to one company & can extrapolate to the world.
05.05.2025 19:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3.5/5🌟. I greatly enjoyed the story, the world building, and the plot. There were some excellent fight scenes in the last third of the story and Michel’s prose is top tier. My negative was that I did not connect with any of the main characters.
The sequel, A Graveyard for Heroes, releases 6/11.
I enjoyed all three of the Children books, but especially Ruin (book 2). Really liked Alien Clay last year, but Shroud may be my favorite so far, unless that is just recency bias. 🤣 I really want to read the Final Architecture trilogy and try some of his fantasy - Guns of the Dawn, in particular.
01.05.2025 17:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4.5/5🌟. Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of the most prolific SFF authors writing today. This is the seventh or eight science fiction novel by Tchaikovsky that I have read. His stories always have unique concepts and interesting characters - many of them non-human.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
A wonderful story about consciousness, relationships, & post-humanism. The author has demonstrated the ability to take complex, cutting-edge concepts, build them into a cohesive & powerful idea, then make the science understandable.
open.substack.com/pub/jvenerec...
