Devolution A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks @maxbrooksauthor #horror #fiction #scifi #fantasy #thriller #bigfoot @Joni2345zb

Devolution A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

by Max Brooks

Publication: June 16, 2020 by Del Ray Books
286 Pages

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Bigfoot 

4 🌠🌠🌠🌠


Devolution is the first book I've read by Max Brooks. The story is basically about a small group of people who decide to live in a secluded area near Mount Rainier in what they all assume will be the perfect utopia called Greenloop. But Mount Rainier erupts and bad things begin to happen.

The book is laid out as a journal of one of the inhabitants of Greenloop. So what happens to a community when they get shut-off from the modern techno world? No cell phones, no more shipments of food? Now mix all that with Sasquatch and what do you get? One helluva book!! Loved it!! 4 🌠🌠🌠🌠 for me.

Recursion by Blake Crouch #SciFi #Fiction #Thriller #TimeTravel #BookReview

Recursion
by Blake Crouch

Publication: June 11, 2019 
336 Pages

Genre: Science Fiction, Fiction, Thriller, Time Travel

4 🌠🌠🌠🌠

The story begins by introducing us to two different characters. Barry is a NYPD cop who is having a bad time coping with life since his daughter, Meghan, passed away. The memories of her haunt him. The other character is Helena, a neuroscientist from Stanford who specializes in studying memory. She has spent her entire professional career wanting to help people with memory problems. She wants to map the human brain but due to research funding her progress has been slow-going. Now her mother has Alzheimer's which gives her all the more reason to speed up the research. Her story starts in 2007 while Barry's is in 2018.

Very good start to the book which had me hooked right away. I loved both of the characters a lot. The technology became a little confusing for me at times but because of the characters I wanted to keep reading. I thought the ending was pretty good. As I got towards the end I was beginning to wonder how it was ever going to conclude and I was thinking "this better not be a stupid ending." I was not disappointed. I'm giving this one 4 🌠🌠🌠🌠 and I hope to read more books by Blake Crouch.

Salem's Lot by #StephenKing #Horror #Fiction #Fantasy #Vampires #BookReview

Salem's Lot
by Stephen King

Publication: October 17, 1975 
451 Pages

Genre: Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Vampires

4 🌠🌠🌠🌠

I continue on my quest of reading Stephen King’s books in chronological order. I thought I had read Salem’s Lot as a kid but after starting it I didn’t remember anything about it.

I don’t think I am giving anything away by sharing this is a book about vampires. And by vampires, I don’t mean the sexy sparkly ones from other books. The vampires in this book are freakin’ SCARY!!

I like to read in the evening sitting on my porch which I tried ONCE with this book...let’s just say I didn’t stay out there very long. Funny how your mind starts to play tricks on you when you read scary stories. Going inside gave me a protective feeling but I doubt my little door could stop a determined vampire lol. Anyway...to me this book was pretty scary.

King introduces many characters and at times I was saying, “Now which one was this?” But after reading a little more I would figure it out. I liked how the author would share the townspeople’s secrets (some big/some small). I really have no complaints about the book other than trying to keep up with all the characters but it still worked for me. I give Salem’s Lot 4 🌠🌠🌠🌠!!!

All The Stars And Teeth by Adalyn Grace #Fantasy #YoungAdult #YA #YoungAdultFantasy #BookReview #OwlCrate

All The Stars And Teeth
by Adalyn Grace

Publication: February 2020 by Imprint
373 Pages

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Young Adult Fantasy

3.5 🌠🌠🌠
I received this book in my Owl Crate subscription a month or so ago. The artwork on the dust jacket is UNBELIEVABLE and I'm so thrilled to have an autographed copy of this debut. The author does a wonderful job of describing the kingdom of Viridia. The main character is Amora, the princess heir to the kingdom. Amora has lived a very sheltered and protected life on her island. The kingdom is divided into different islands and each island is inhabited by people who practice only one kind of magic. Learning more than one type of magic is forbidden. Amora ends up being thrown into an adventure like none other as she attempts to save the kingdom and become its eventual leader.

There is some romance mixed in which is something I usually don't read, but in this case there was more adventure than romance so it was fine. For being a debut author, Grace did a wonderful job making the reader feel like they were there with Amora...by describing what each of the islands looked like, to explaining the colorful clothing the islanders wore, to even the food which was different on each island. I was impressed and am giving it 3.5 🌠🌠🌠. I definitely want to read the next book coming out.

#Carrie by Stephen King #Horror #Thriller #Paranormal

Carrie
by Stephen King

Publication Date: April 5, 1974
Doubleday Books
199 Pages

Genre: Horror, Thriller, Paranormal

I first read Carrie as a kid many many years ago. It's funny how you read things as an adult and get such a different feeling from a book. Stephen King has always been one of my favorite authors of all time, but as I grew older my tastes in books had changed. I was on a strictly crime fiction reading regimen for the past several years and began to get bored as it seemed almost all the books were sounding the same. So I decided awhile back to go back to my roots so to speak and start reading/rereading genres I had enjoyed in the past. And boy, I am so glad I did! Now I'm reading a lot of fantasy and horror and almost makes me feel like a kid again. I'm getting excited now to begin reading a new book or series which is something I have been missing for some time. Soooooo.... I decided to start reading Stephen King books in chronological order which brings me to this review.

Reading Carries as an adult made me think a lot more about how we treat people. It also brought back some not so good memories of my childhood where certain kids were always the ones being picked on and bullied. I'm ashamed to say that as a kid I rarely had the courage to take up for these poor kids. I did however raise my own kids to do what their mom didn't. I would like to believe I did a good job doing that as my kids do speak up and step in when they see someone being mistreated.

I loved rereading Carrie because there were so many things that I had forgotten. I can barely remember things that happened yesterday let alone things that I read over 30 years ago. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and am excited to keep going with more King books and have even begun starting a Stephen King hardcover collection. I know some complain about King books with bad endings but in my opinion Carries wasn't one of them. The ending to me in this one was great. I would recommend reading Carrie. 4 stars!!