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I saw this book up for review and had always wanted to read McTiernan's first book, The Ruin. Three days ago I picked up The Ruin and I finished The Scholar tonight. Back-to-back awesomeness! If you are looking for a new thriller/police procedural, look no further! Cormac has had another year of cold cases and... Continue Reading →
It's been ten years since the event enveloped a large swath a Philadelphia killing hundreds of thousands of people. It left a wasteland that has since been cordoned off and memorialized for the lives lost. Scientists worked to develop technology to cross over into Oblivion, and spent several years saving the displaced from the beasts... Continue Reading →
An alternative-history of Benoit Mandelbrot, a famed Jewish mathematician who survived the Nazi occupation of France during WW2. This is a story woven with religion, coming of age, and magical calculations. Mandelbrot's family is pushed west by the advancing German army, from Warsaw to Paris to Tulle. His once-mentor uncle is able to escape with... Continue Reading →
The bifurcation of time and love. The ache of the longing to help a child. Mike Chen's Here and Now and Then is an excellent time-travel novel that is a contemplation of memory disguised as a page-turner. Kin is a Tempural Crimes agent whose job is to weed out corruption in the timeline. But a... Continue Reading →
A grieving African-American scientist uses the inspiration of Dr. Frankenstein's monster to piece together her son, who has been killed by a police officer while walking home with a baseball bat that is mistaken for a gun. The real monster emerges from his centuries sleep from the Arctic ice to go on a killing rampage...... Continue Reading →
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