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Happiness and Sunshine in the Zombie Apocalypse Author: David Wellington Finn has lived his life safe from the aftereffects of the zombie apocalypse. The surviving parts of the world are hunkered into fortified home bases. His home base is in New York, where he regularly listens to the paranoid older generation tell stories of horror and helps fish in the Subway tunnels, wondering what they must have looked like before. He is protected. He is happy. He, like the others his age, makes fun of the older generations, many of whom are too terrified to leave their skyrises. That’s until Finn [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-13T11:43:10-07:00October 13th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, zombie, zombies|

Nothing But the Rain

Memories in the Rain Author: Naomi Salman In Aloisville, the rain washes away your sins, your past, your memory, you. No one knows when it started, or why, but Laverne has been keeping a journal and performing experiments. She now knows how much rain it takes to wash away a moment of your time and how much it takes to leave you an empty shell. It rains every day now, and her notes cover the walls of her house, reminding her, lest she forget. The notes talk about how much rain does how much damage, about what they have learned over [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-05T19:31:57-07:00October 5th, 2024|Tags: book review, dystopian, horror, novella, read, reading|

Cabinet of Curiosities

Agent Pendergast’s Secrets Authors: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Childs The mystery of the museum beast and opening day massacre is long behind him, so journalist Bill Smithback has his sights on other record-breaking stories and on getting his longtime girlfriend, Nora, to move in with him. Everything seems ordinary, but something suspicious and dark is lurking just beneath the surface. When a pale FBI agent shows up on scene, the mystery descends into chaos, which descends into death, long buried secrets, and a family tie-in for the enigmatic Agent Pendergast. Enter the finding of a charnel house, right where a powerful [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-29T16:34:20-07:00September 29th, 2024|Tags: Agent Pendergast, book review, horror, mystery, Pendergast, read, reading, techno thriller, thriller|