Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. It’s a day like any other. Except . . . the world is about to end. It’s on this day that Pounce, … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill
Category: Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic
Book Review: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Summary: In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “Borne” entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of … Continue reading Book Review: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
Book Review: The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee
Summary: Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer’s image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget—that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia. Now … Continue reading Book Review: The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee
Book Review: The Rise of the Magicks by Nora Roberts
Summary: After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized … Continue reading Book Review: The Rise of the Magicks by Nora Roberts
Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Summary: Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet’s population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs. In post-apocalyptic San Francisco, former pop star Moira has created a new identity to finally escape her past—until her domineering father launches a sweeping public search … Continue reading Book Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. In this second thrilling installment of he Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet’s population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Book Review: Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Summary: It’s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she’s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she’s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange clan power. … Continue reading Book Review: Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Book Review: The Blood Prince by Josie Jaffrey #20BooksofSummer
Summary: The price of freedom is always paid in blood. The sovereigns of the Silver have awakened, but the Queen is a fractured shell of the woman Cam remembers. He hopes to put her back together by finding her son, the missing prince. At least, that’s what he tells his friends when he leaves for … Continue reading Book Review: The Blood Prince by Josie Jaffrey #20BooksofSummer
Book Review: The Book of Flora by Meg Elison #20booksofsummer
Summary: In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an … Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Flora by Meg Elison #20booksofsummer
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