Just a girl and her books
SWAN SONG | Robert McCammon 06.01.1987 | Gallery Books Rating: 5/5 stars Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the government responds with a nuclear attack. America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen—from the President of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City—will fight for survival. … Continue reading Book Review: Swan Song
MANHUNT | Gretchen Felker-Martin 02.22.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 3.5/5 stars Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they’ll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren’t safe. … Continue reading Book Review: Manhunt
SURVIVOR SONG | Paul Tremblay 07.07.2020 | William Morrow Rating: 4.5/5 stars In a matter of weeks Massachusetts finds itself overrun by a deadly rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. Unlike regular rabies, this virus has an accelerated incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven … Continue reading Book Review: Survivor Song
PARABLE OF THE SOWER | Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed #1) 04.30.2019 (First published 10.1993) | Grand Central Publishing Rating: 5/5 stars The early 2020’s have arrived, bringing with them global climate change, economic crises, and social chaos. California has become a world of dangers filled with masses of vagabonds who will do anything to survive … Continue reading Book Review: Parable of the Sower
THE LAST | Hanna Jameson 04.09.2019 | Atria Books Rating: 4/5 stars Jon has left his family back home in America in order to attend a conference in an isolated hotel in Switzerland. We never consider that we won’t be able to go home and try to fix a situation we left behind, but this … Continue reading Book Review: The Last
RABID HEART | Jeremy Wagner 08.10.2018 | Riverdale Avenue Books Rating: 4/5 stars Six months have passed since the Necro Rabies pandemic swept the Earth. Rhonda is now living in a world filled with hordes of rabid undead humans known as “Cujos”. She has thought for these last six months that her fiance, Brad, was … Continue reading Book Review: Rabid Heart
THE STAND | Stephen King 08.07.2012 (first published in 1978) | Vintage Anchor Rating: 5/5 stars The military has been working on the next great form of biological warfare in order to protect the United States, should the time ever come. Something has gone horribly wrong and the super-flu these military scientists have created has … Continue reading Book Review: The Stand
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