Wayward Pines 2: Wayward By Blake Crouch
Wayward Pines 2: Wayward By Blake Crouch 4 stars.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue By V.E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue By V.E. Schwab 5 stars!
The Time Traveler's Wife By Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife By Audrey Niffenegger This is my best friend's favorite book and everyone raves about it, so I was glad to finally get to it. Henry DeTamble is a time traveler who has no control over his disappearances, which seem to result from feelings of high stress. He appears in a few reoccurring places throughout the years. Most often he appears to Clare Abshire throughout her life, from the age of 6. When he first comes to her he is in his 30s and knows she is the little girl version of his future wife. Henry spends his time with Clare teaching her things and dodging her questions about the future. When she sees him in her own time at the age of 20 (Henry is 28) she hints at the fact that she has known him for a long time, even though he is just meeting her for the first time. So begins there love affair and the tangling up of their stories throughout the years, which results in the devastating reality of Henry's condition, a reality they hope will not be...
Station Eleven By Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven By Emily St. John Mandel Kirsten Raymonde is a little girl on stage when the lead actor in the production of King Lear she is acting in dies onstage. This marks the beginning of the end of civilization as she knows it. A flu is spreading like wildfire, killing most of its victims within a few hours. Twenty years later Kirsten is part of a traveling troupe of musicians and actors making their way from settlement to settlement. At one of these settlements they encounter a man named The Prophet whose ire they draw, and who begins to threaten the troupe's existence. Station Eleven moves back and forth through time, tracing the beginning of the flu pandemic and the twist of fate that connects the novel's characters. I really liked this book, which unfolded elegantly by revealing slowly what the connections were between all of its various elements and characters. It had a good level of tension and a mystery at its core. The writing was wonderful. St. John Mandel had...
Kindred By Octavia E. Butler
Kindred By Octavia E. Butler Dana and her husband have just moved into a new house in California when she is suddenly ripped out of the modern world and finds herself in the slave-owning south. Dana, a black woman, finds herself in a precarious position. It seems her fate and her time traveling are wrapped up in the near-death experiences of a young white boy named Rufus, who seems to have a connection with Dana. Each time she is pulled back she saves Rufus from impending death. At first he seems welcoming and open-minded. He is in love with a slave girl. But as he grows he changes, becoming harder and much more like his father in mind and beliefs. Repeatedly, Dana is brought back (once with her husband who gets stranded there for many years) and she struggles with Rufus over his changing attitudes. Each time she returns her position becomes more uncertain, with Rufus eventually wanting her to stay by any means. Dana knows the only way she can get back home for good is to ...
Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune by Frank Herbert Young Paul Atreides leaves his home planet of Caladan with his family and royal house for the planet Arrakis. His father (Duke Leto) has been granted the planet to rule, but is betrayed by Dr. Yueh for political and personal reasons. Paul and his mother, Jessica (a Bene Gesserit) flee into the desert and become part of the Fremen people who are native to the desert planet. Paul has been trained in his mother's mystical ways, and trained in combat by his father's loyal men. Arakis (or Dune) is a crucial planet to the known universe for its habitability and production of a drug called melange, also known as spice. It is a substance that is addictive and is in everything on Arakis, but is also used as a power source throughout the galaxy. It extends lives and fuels enhances capabilities. The Fremen on Arakis have these abilities, though they do not explore or understand them. The royal Houses vie for control of Arakis because of the spice. Religion and po...
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer Okay, so I don't think sci-fi is my jam. I will not likely pick up another one. This book was so difficult for me to get through, the prose just hard for my brain to grasp. The sentence constructions, the asides, the circle-talk...it was all just too much. Needless to say I didn't like it. It was as bad a read as the first in the trilogy. The second book was the best one, by far. The only thing I liked about this book was the gay lighthouse keeper and his story line. This book gets 3 stars, only because of that. The trilogy as a whole I'm giving 2 stars. That's all I have to say about it.