All the Books.

​ “We're now at the Resistance part of Emma's journey, where she is back with the troops and painfully aware of the presence of her former husband, the literal man of her dreams, Noah. It's all lip-biting, doe-eyed stares and vague mention of some dystopian future. It tried but just didn't do it for me as a series.” ⭐️ Pros: Emma begins to understand that she’s a person and she deserves to be happy.  Cons: I do despise love triangles/Emmas constant fixation on how muscular and attractive every man was/I had to chuckle at the “cure” for Emmas “illness.". It was all rather quick and convenient.  Full Review:  ***Disclaimer - If you have not read Archetype by M.D. Waters, please do so and then feel free to read this post at your leisure. That way, you'll know what I'm talking about 🙌.*** Clone Emma left everything behind at the end of Archetype , to try and find her parents. She learns their ex resistance and is following a lead in Mexico when Declan Burke, ...

“Rick Deckard is a Bounty Hunter who's on the trail of six "Andys" (Androids) who have come to Earth illegally. His job is to track them down and "retire" them. Something he found easy to do until he met her, Rachael Rosen. The Android that does the impossible, passes the "Voight-Kampff" test. The story quickly devolves into a slow, drawn out and frankly boring mystery that was putting me to sleep by the end."    ⭐⭐ Pros: I was more interested in comparing it to the film, "Bladerunner."/At first I kind of liked the drab, dreary atmostphere but it soon became soporific.  Cons: I had no real idea what was going on with Mercerism/The end there had me blinking in bewilderment, like with Herbert's 29th Dune Book/There was a lot of idle chit-chat while they were in murderous/intense situations, it just seemed odd.  Full Review:  Rick Deckard, a Bounty Hunter, contracted with the San Francisco Police Department hunts down and retires rogue ...

"Charlie Gordon agrees to be the first human test subject to undergo an experimental procedure that could raise his IQ astonishingly. It's a success and Charlie goes from someone with a severe intellectual disability to a genius in only a few short months. Though his knowledge grows by the day, motionally, he has a lot of catching up to do. This was originally a high school assigned read and thus I was hesitant but I'm glad I gave it another chance."    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pros: Charlie is truly the tragic hero/Charlie and Algernon ❤️🥲.  Cons: Things have changed so use of the word retardate and such was surprising at first but, it was a different time/Alice Kinnian and her melodrama got a bit old.  Full Review:  Told through progress reports over the course of several months, we see Charlie Gordon's journey. He's agreed to be the first human test subject of an experiment that could raise his IQ at an astonishing rate. They've already had success with Algernon, a lab...

"The one constant in Eddie's life is Ruby Pier. The boardwalk attraction he's worked at since he was a teenager. It's been a staple of his life and sadly, it will also be the place of his death. When he wakes up in Heaven, he meets five people, each who teach him a lesson and help prepare him for the way forward. This book had me hook, line and sinker and didn't disappoint. It was a powerful, emotional and absolutely beautiful read."  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  Pros: Hooked me right from the start/Every step of Heaven was perfectly heartbreaking/This was an incredibly moving and powerful book.  Cons: The only one I can think of is, I would have liked to have known more about Eddie's life before but we're offered enough in the glimpses shown through the novel.  Full Review:  Eddie is old and tired. He gets up, he goes to work, he comes home, wash, rinse, repeat. His life has had its ups and downs but all we see, at first, is a sad, tired, old man. Every day he goes to wo...

​“The tale of Andy Dufresne and how he served his time at Shawshank prison, as told through the eyes of his friend and fellow inmate, Red. Dark and disturbing but also compulsively readbale. I finished it in 2 days. Also enjoyable is Frank Darabont's 1994 film adaptation, "The Shawshank Redemption." ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pros : Red has a soothing, drawl, making the reading easy and flowing/Since I saw the film first, I couldn't help but compare the book though I was pleased to find that the two were very similar.  Cons : Things got a bit rambling a bit at the beginning/Since I saw the film first I couldn't help but compare the book but this ended up not being a con.  Full Review: The state of Maine has a prison. Shawshank Redemption. And Red is the guy that can get you things. He also happens to be the only guilty man in Shawshank but that's netiher here nor there. He meets Andy Dufresne for business purposes at first and he finds him to be a calm, cool man and Red likes him i...

"It had a definite The Handmaids Tale feel and I wasn't sure who to trust/what was real so Waters did pique my curiosity. In the end though, I was left feeling rather underwhelmed."   ⭐⭐ Pros: It had me interested and I kept reading, so it did what a book is supposed to do.  Con: The lack of contractions with Emma Burke was extremely annoying/The tension between Emma/Noah, since there was a significant time jump, it was all a bit confusing honestly/Overuse of the word "shift" as to "shift out of his grip."  Full Review:  Emma wakes up with no memory of her life. Apparently, she's the wife of Declan Burke, an enormously successful business man who's also a patient and caring Husband. She was in a terrible accident but they're hopeful that she'll make a full recovery. She's with the best Scientists in the Country, she's in good hands She tries to find peace in this life that she can't remember and Declan really does seem to ca...

"Lowen Ashleigh, a middling-author who's struggling to make ends meets, is offered the dream of a lifetime. Outline and finish the last three books in a best-selling series, since the author, Verity Crawford, no longer can. Verity was involved in a car accident that has left her incapacitated.When Lowen goes to Verity's home and starts combing through her notes for research, though, she comes across an "autobiography" that paints a far darker picture of the grieving woman who currently lives just upstairs. Lowen is soon questioning everytihng, including her own sanity. This was a dark, intense but engrossing read."  ⭐⭐⭐ Pros:  It definitely had an eerie feel at times/Verity is certifiably, terrifyingly insane/Hoover has an easy flow to her writing/It had a good hook, caught me right from the start.  Cons:  I was more interested in the thriller aspect of this romantic thriller so the romantic plot was predicable/Lowen felt flat as a character, I felt like Hoo...

"Red, an operative of The Agency and Blue, an operative of Garden are able to travel through time and space, making corrections, deletions, all manner of alterations that will affect time in past, present and future. When Red stumbles upon a letter in the aftermath of a battle that says, "Burn before Reading" she rises to the bait and that's when she "meets" Blue and their correspondence will be the thing that changes everything."  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pros: It was definitely an interesting read, told mostly through correspondence between two enemy agents in the Time War/Red and Blue's differences in beliefs first made them enemies but as time progressed and their letters, first taunts and jeers changed to friendship and love, they too, changed as people.  Cons: The times between the letters, when Red and Blue complete assignments and try to keep their correspondence a secret, could be a little confusing/Since they could travel back and forth through different ...

"Essentially, it's the story of six Astronauts, working and living on the International Space Station that orbits the Earth. Though the author tried to give the characters background, the book was too short to make any one character stick out and the lack of a cohesive plot made it so the book just kept going, around and around, much like the Space Station in its continuous orbit of the Earth." ⭐⭐ Pros: There were moments of true beauty at the beginning, seeing Earth from the vantage point of Space.   Cons: The author tried to give the characters background but they all kind of blurred together, none of them really stuck out/The narrative, since there was no real plot, just ended up going around and around in circles, meandering and pointless.    Full Review: This book follows six astronauts who are on the space station that’s orbiting earth. To be perfectly honest, none of the character stuck out to me enough to remember their names or their places of origin. ...

​ “I initially believed that this would be an off-shoot of Stoker's Dracula and an exploration into the three mysterious "women" that Harker finds when he's roaming Dracula's castle but unfortunately, that was not the case. It had its interesting moments and some potential but in the end it devolved into smut.” ⭐⭐ Pros: It started out with potential, since I thought it would tie into Stoker's Dracula and be an interesting offshoot but it wasn't. Cons: Since the back of the book says that Constanta was Dracula's first bride, I was led to believe that the Vampire in the book, since he's never given a first name, was, in fact, Dracula, but, I was wrong/The timing of everything was just hilariously wrong, let's plot out this whole, dangerous, betrayal, all while the villagers are storming the castle. I guess when you're immortal, your time management skills falter.   Full Review:  Amidst the burning wreckage of her village, Constanta lies on th...