Audio Book Review of Micro: A Novel

Micro: A Novel is a book that Michael Crichton started writing before he died and Richard Preston finished. I can only imagine the pressure one must be under to finish writing a book that was started by an icon such as Michael Crichton. Unfortunately I do not think that this book lives up to Crichton’s other epics.

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Audio Book Review of Day By Day Armageddon

Day By Day Armageddon was a fun listen. Written a little different than all the other zombie books I have listened to. The whole book is nothing other than the journal entries of a military man. At first I wasn’t so sure about this format. But it worked for me, even adding to the suspense and the need to know what happens next.

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Audio Book Review of WWW: Wake by Robert J Sawyer

WWW: Wake  is book one in a trilogy by Robert J Sawyer.

WWW: Wake tells the story of fifteen year old Caitlin Decter, who has been blind since birth.  A new implant technology changes her world forever.  Not only does her new implant begin to allow her to see the world around her, it also allows her to visualize the world wide web.  This book’s focus is clearly on Caitlin and her new found senses but is also filled with a great supporting cast of characters.

Meanwhile, hidden deep within the world wide web’s data stream is a sentient program that has just become self-aware.  It reaches out to make contact with it’s surroundings and comes into contact with another intelligent being.  Caitlin.

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Audio Book Review of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

Book description from Amazon:

Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. She’s been stricken with something the old-timers call “Milk Sickness.”

“My baby boy…” she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother’s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

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Audio & Book Review of Directive 51 by John Barnes

The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from “a master of the genre” 

Heather O’Grainne is the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumors surrounding something called “Daybreak.” The group is diverse and radical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatred for the “Big System” and their desire to take it down. 

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Audio Book Review of The Loving Dead by Amelia Beamer

Click to view on AudibleFrom Publisher’s Weekly:

Blood, guts, and sex intermingle in this stylish debut from Locus editor Beamer. A California party turns bad when the spread of a brain-eating STD leaves roommates Kate and Michael struggling to deal with a houseful of zombies. Oblivious Oakland authorities ignore the escalating crisis as aggressively promiscuous and ravenous zombies keep popping up. Finally, the desperate friends make a plan to flee to a zombie-proof haven while fearing that some of their acquaintances may already be infected. Contemporary touches like a surprisingly useful iPhone app and overthe-top moments of frantically alternating sex and gore make for a sick, funny romp that only falters at the end, which mostly occurs offstage. The cleverness of the set pieces balances the unsatisfying resolution for an entertaining and original take on the zombie apocalypse. 

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Audio Book Review of Where Angels Fear to Tread by Thomas E Sniegoski

From The Author’s Web Site:  

“Six-year-old Zoe York has been taken and her mother has come to Remy for help. She shows him crude, childlike drawings that she claims are Zoe’s visions of the future, everything leading up to her abduction, and some beyond. Like the picture of a man with wings who would come and save her - a man who is an angel.

Zoe’s preternatural gifts have made her a target for those who wish to exploit her power to their own destructive ends. The search will take Remy to dark places he would rather avoid. But to save an innocent, Remy will ally himself with a variety of lesser evils - and his soul may pay the price…”

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