The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton is a twisty, inventive thriller set on a remote, dystopian island where a murder occurs and a small group of people must solve it amidst the strange and dangerous environment. The story follows a series of escalating mysteries, with eerie fog, enigmatic characters,…
Category: Sci-Fi
You Weren’t Meant to be Human
You Weren’t Meant to Be Human is a horror mashup of Alien meets Midsommar, set in rural West Virginia. Festering hives of worms and flies promise salvation in exchange for loyalty and corpses. Crane thinks he’s found refuge, even love, in this gruesome community, until a pregnancy forces him to confront the hive’s terrifying demands….
Constituent Service: A Third District Story
I absolutely loved Constituent Service by John Scalzi. It was an irresistibly fun, fast-paced sci-fi novella that had me grinning the entire time. In this audio-exclusive novella, we follow Ashley Perrin, a recent college grad who’s just started her job as a community liaison in the Third District—the only part of the city where aliens…
The Shutouts
The Shutouts picks up in the wake of Yours for the Taking, plunging us back into a dystopian future unraveling under the weight of climate catastrophe, government betrayal, and identity politics. Though billed as “set in the same world,” make no mistake, this is a true sequel imo, and you’ll be lost without reading book…
Julie Chan is Dead
Debut energy and influencer chaos incoming… Julie Chan is stuck in a dead-end job, living a life worlds away from her estranged, glamorous twin sister Chloe VanHuusen—an influencer with millions of followers. When Chloe is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Julie makes a split-second decision to step into her sister’s shoes and take over her…
Kaiju Preservation Society
Alright well John Scalzi is now an auto-read author for me. After thoroughly enjoying Start Villian I decided to dive into his 2022 release, The Kaiju Preservation Society and I was not disappointed. We follow Jamie Gray as he deals with unemployment in a COVID-19 world. When he runs into an old college friend who…
The Ministry of Time
Unpopular opinion alert: I don’t understand the hype around this book. Having nothing to do with the Spanish series of the same name (the title and time travel are literally the only similarities) the genre mash-up of time-travel, historical fiction, and romance is unique to say the least. Set in almost present-day Britian, the Ministry…
Yours for the Taking
It’s 2050 and the Inside Project is ready to accept their applicants. Jacqueline Millender a women’s rights advocate and billionaire has funding and treated the project as her own personal experiment. As arrival of those accepted into the Inside begin to arrive, they notice that the lottery to enter might not be as random as…
Starter Villian
The supervillain business just got a new overlord…or at least Charlie’s long-lost uncle Jake just left him his entire estate which happens to potentially include his reputation as a villain. With Jake out of the picture, his enemies are now Charlie’s enemies and they’re coming to claim what’s theirs. Good thing Charlie has a hyperintelligent…
Station Eternity
Mallory has been involved with countless murders. Not because she’s actually murdered anyone but because somehow murders are drawn to her, very Miss Marplesque. While she does a great job of solving the murders she happens to stumble upon, it doesn’t exactly make her popular to be around. When Mallory gets the chance to take…