zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzI was bored by this book. I had trouble keeping the characters separate. I kept forgetting as I read what was back story and what was taking place in real time. I'm not sure why I finished; it was a chore.
Recommended on Thursday. Bought Thursday night. Read on Sunday, finished on Monday.Done and dusted. A new author to follow.I’m always especially intrigued by books written by physicians, envying them their overachieving capabilities. And look at the author photo on the back flap of the dust jack...
This book takes place here:My parents used to take me to this park as a kid -- not often, it was farther away than the Panhandle. As a little urban child I thought it was like the real forest. And it is the real forest, in The Great Night, the forest that is endless, and dangerous, and beautiful, th...
Raging Biblioholism review: http://wp.me/pGVzJ-f8An interesting - and interestingly flawed - apocalypse novel. There's elements of just about everything thrown into this monster of a novel and Adrian's pacing is absolutely appalling. But there's an interesting meditation on the resilience of human...
Some of the stories are okay. A couple are good. An unusual preponderance struck me derivative, boring, and/or pretentious. It bothered me that the publisher tried to present this volume as doing something new and important when it is not. At all. "Reinterpreting" fairy tales as coming-of-age storie...
There is a misnomer on the cover of this book. Some short stories in this volume have not been commissioned for the book. Several of them have appeared in various magazines and collections (some have appeared over a decade ago).This is okay, for this is the first time that they are all collected t...
I got this book as part of an early reviewer program on another site. Honestly, if I'd realized it was written by the same author as The Children's Hopsital I probably would not have requested it. I really was not a fan of that book.The actually are some good stories in this anthology. I thought the...
Jemma is doing her residency at a children's hospital when the world is drowned in a flood. A preserving angel lifts up the hospital (with everyone in it) and they are the only survivors. The story tracks their progress as they try to care for the sick children, and after Jema develops the power to ...
I was depressed and frightened for two days after finishing this book. The beginning third is mesmerizing and the entire book is incredibly well written but I am not sure that I like it. For the eloquent writing and awe inspiring descriptions, I'd give it 5 stars but I because I don't understand wh...
For the first fifty pages I was interested and excited about this, the prose was excellent, the premise was interesting, I was eager to see where he was going with it. For the next two hundred pages I was increasingly irritated as it became apparent that he was not going much of anywhere. Then I sk...
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