Review: The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

The Dead-Tossed Waves Carrie Ryan March, 2010 The Dead-Tossed Waves is Carrie Ryan’s follow up to the lyrical and moving The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the first novel The Dead-Tossed Wavesis about growing up in post-apocalyptic community constantly threatened by the presence of zombies. The novel follows Gabry and young girl in the [...]

Review: Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry Simon and Schuster, 2010 At first glance it might be easy to peg Jonathan Maberry’s Rot & Ruin as just another zombie novel. However, doing so does this teen-centric title a huge disservice. Rot & Ruin for all its violence and actions manages to tell a fascinating and emotionally engaging [...]

Review: 7th Sigma by Steven Gould

7th Sigma Steven Gould Tor, 2011 Steven Gould is perhaps best known for his novel Jumper originally released in 1992 and later adapted into a film in 2008. I found the film enjoyable if somewhat forgettable and regrettable only in that it managed to line the pockets of Hayden Christensen. Burried in a box of [...]

Review: Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld

Behemoth Scott Westerfeld Simon Pulse, 2010 Though its been a little over a year since I read Leviathan I was still pretty excited to get by hands on Scott Westefeld’s Behemoth. Before I even describe the novel I need to take a moment to say that whoever was in charge of cover art for this [...]

Review: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero (Book One of the Heroes of Olympus) Rick Riordan Hyperion, 2010 So some time ago I listened to the audio version of the opening novel in the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan: The Lost Hero. I had previously listened to all of Riordan’s earlier series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, [...]

Review: Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card

Pathfinder Orson Scott Card Simon Pulse, 2010 My initial attraction to Pathfinder was based solely on the fact that the main character was named Rigg.  Rig is a less well known name of the Norse god Heimdall;  it is the name Heimdall goes by as he wanders Midgard, the tale of which is chronicled in [...]

Review: The Comet’s Curse by Dom Testa

The Comet’s Curse Dom Testa Tor, 2009 I’ve been on something of a YA kick of late.  Having plowed through Catching Fire and put away the penultimate volume of Percy Jackson and the Olympians on audio (The Battle of the Labyrinth) I remembered Dom Testa’s entertaining talk as part of the Science Fiction and Fantasy: [...]

Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

The Forest of Hands and Teeth Carrie Ryan Delacorte, 2010 First Line: My mother used to tell me about the ocean. Carrie Ryan’s The Forest of Hands and Teeth is a post-apocalyptic bildungsroman…with zombies.  Mary is teen living in an a village surrounded by the titular forest.  The world as we know it is gone [...]