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Christopher's bookshelf: read en-US Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:24:12 -0800 60 Christopher's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Gotham Central, Book One: In the Line of Duty]]> 3316474 240 Ed Brubaker 1401219233 Christopher 0 to-read 4.35 2008

Gotham Central, Book One: In the Line of Duty

author: Ed Brubaker
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Wool - Holston (Wool, #1) 12287209
Or you'll get what you wish for.]]> 56 Hugh Howey Christopher 5 4.14 2012

author: Hugh Howey
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2014/10/28
date added: 2025/01/09
shelves: fiction, science-fiction, short-story, 2014
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet]]> 55145261 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.]]> 304 John Green 0525555218 Christopher 0 to-read, _signed 4.37 2021 The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

author: John Green
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/27
shelves: to-read, _signed
review:

]]> <![CDATA[2666, Part 1: The Part About The Critics]]> 16481836 160 Roberto Bola?o Christopher 0 dont-worry-about-it 4.19

2666, Part 1: The Part About The Critics

author: Roberto Bola?o
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.19
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/01
shelves: dont-worry-about-it
review:

]]> The Friends of Eddie Coyle 8562108 Time), with a new introduction by Dennis Lehane

George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen--that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen, and executioners whom he calls his friends should he send up the river? Told almost entirely in crackling dialogue by a vivid cast of lowlifes and detectives, The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the greatest crime novels ever written.

“The best crime novel ever written--makes The Maltese Falcon read like Nancy Drew.” -- Elmore Leonard]]> 193 George V. Higgins 1429931981 Christopher 5 2018, fiction, noir “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”

Hard-boiled detectives, low lighting, and cigar smoke are what come to mind for many when they hear 'noir'. In my view, noir doesn't require them though. What defines noir for me is tragedy. But not in the traditional Greek Tragedy sense where our character falls from great heights, with potentially a really nice soliloquy before their fall. No, in noir we still have the fall... but it's typically a fall from a curb. Perhaps into the open trunk of a car. Often without any last words at all, clever or otherwise.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle is quintessential noir. This is a story about a bad man who sells guns to other bad men; but honestly, the plot doesn't matter. There is no grand conspiracy, no huge twists. Just people living their lives and trying to screw over whomever they need to in order to survive.

This noir is all about style, while not actually presenting anything that would be labeled as stylish. After all, these are local gun runners, beat cops, and bartenders, not exactly the glamorous portions of Boston. To capture the correct feel, this novel goes all in on dialogue. Like, all in. Probably 80% of this book is people talking. You might get a couple of sentences of scene setup, but only if absolutely required. For the most part, this book is all people talking about other people, sometimes while doing stuff to move the plot along. I know most of you just said "What the crap? No;" but it's really good. It's so good. It's also a bit confusing from time to time while you try to recall who is who, but it's fine for the most part. Look, don't worry about it. Just grab a scotch, go along for the ride, and be thankful that you aren't any of these characters.]]> 4.08 1971 The Friends of Eddie Coyle

author: George V. Higgins
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1971
rating: 5
read at: 2018/01/28
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: 2018, fiction, noir
review:

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”

Hard-boiled detectives, low lighting, and cigar smoke are what come to mind for many when they hear 'noir'. In my view, noir doesn't require them though. What defines noir for me is tragedy. But not in the traditional Greek Tragedy sense where our character falls from great heights, with potentially a really nice soliloquy before their fall. No, in noir we still have the fall... but it's typically a fall from a curb. Perhaps into the open trunk of a car. Often without any last words at all, clever or otherwise.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle is quintessential noir. This is a story about a bad man who sells guns to other bad men; but honestly, the plot doesn't matter. There is no grand conspiracy, no huge twists. Just people living their lives and trying to screw over whomever they need to in order to survive.

This noir is all about style, while not actually presenting anything that would be labeled as stylish. After all, these are local gun runners, beat cops, and bartenders, not exactly the glamorous portions of Boston. To capture the correct feel, this novel goes all in on dialogue. Like, all in. Probably 80% of this book is people talking. You might get a couple of sentences of scene setup, but only if absolutely required. For the most part, this book is all people talking about other people, sometimes while doing stuff to move the plot along. I know most of you just said "What the crap? No;" but it's really good. It's so good. It's also a bit confusing from time to time while you try to recall who is who, but it's fine for the most part. Look, don't worry about it. Just grab a scotch, go along for the ride, and be thankful that you aren't any of these characters.
]]> Lost Boy 33383807 From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook—a tale about Peter Pan and the friend who became his nemesis, a nemesis who may not be the blackhearted villain Peter says he is…

There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan’s first—and favorite—lost boy to his greatest enemy.
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Peter brought me to his island because there were no rules and no grownups to make us mind. He brought boys from the Other Place to join in the fun, but Peter's idea of fun is sharper than a pirate’s sword. Because it’s never been all fun and games on the island. Our neighbors are pirates and monsters. Our toys are knife and stick and rock—the kinds of playthings that bite.

Peter promised we would all be young and happy forever. Peter lies.]]> 304 Christina Henry 039958403X Christopher 5
What else is there to say? It's great.]]> 4.28 2017 Lost Boy

author: Christina Henry
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2019/01/13
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: 2019, fiction, library-has-ebook, fantasy, retellings
review:
Peter Pan re-imagined as Lord of the Flies.

What else is there to say? It's great.
]]> <![CDATA[The Camelot Shadow (Camelot Shadow, #1)]]> 24020362 "A chance to save her. Improbably, impossibly, inconceivably."

Lord Alfred Fitzwilliam spends each day in much the same way: caring for his terminally ill wife and trying to lose himself in the dusty tomes that fill his library. Everything changes when he receives a visit from a man representing a clandestine organization operating with the backing of Queen Victoria herself. The group seeks his aid in finding an Arthurian artifact that, legend holds, can cure its bearer of any wound or disease.

Skeptical but desperate to help his wife, Alfred is convinced that the fabled item might actually exist after witnessing a seemingly impossible display of power by the organization's leader, James Nigel. He decides to pursue the treasure, accompanied by an eccentric scholar, a deadly druid, and his best friend, a sardonic bookseller who is far more than he seems. As he follows an arcane trail of clues from the gas-lit streets of London to the wilds of Scotland and deep into ancient catacombs in Italy, Alfred becomes enmeshed in a web of hidden agendas, secret societies, and ancient enchantments. Along the way, he learns a dark secret about Nigel's past—and the true power of the artifact he seeks.

Steeped in a compelling mythology and filled with unexpected twists, The Camelot Shadow will leave readers stunned, breathless, and wrestling with an impossible question: what do you do with an object that has the power to both save the world and destroy it?

(Don't miss The Strange Task Before Me for further adventures in the Camelot Shadow world.)]]> 374 Sean Gibson 1483541932 Christopher 4
4.something stars. At the moment, let's go with 4.3 (ish).

The Camelot Shadow is a historical fiction mystery adventure fantasy... thing. Fantasy in that magic is real (though only known to secret societies and the like). Mystery in that they are trying to find something lost to history and legend. Threat at every turn brings adventure, and lots of detail about (I think) the late 1800s gives us historical fiction. Weave in a re-imagining of Arthurian legend and you have this book. Well, and scotch. A lot of scotch.

As a few of my GR friends know, I've had a terrible time with books lately. Mostly in that the books I am reading are well done, but I simply do not like them. So I was elated to find that this one is well written, and I enjoyed it. I didn't want to throw it across the room a single time, which might not sound like a high bar, but trust me, I've wanted to throw a lot of books lately. Perhaps I am just more critical as I age.

One thing I found especially good is that I enjoyed reading about all of the characters. There are no characters like Bran (from ASoIaF) where you want to skip any chapter he happens to be in (He is boring. It is known). There's no Katniss off moping in a closet somewhere. You won't want to be best friends with some of them, but skimming a few pages forward because a character entered a scene never crossed my mind.

This is a fairly complex story with dense enough prose to slow you down as you read. I saw a person or two comment on the word choices, and while I never reached for a dictionary for a meaning, I did go look up 'indefatigable' to see if that was real or just some prefixes that happened to make sense. ;)

That being said, the dialogue is excellent, and often funny. I didn't find myself rereading pages or anything. It's not confusing. It just has words like 'indefatigable' in the fight scenes.

Ultimately though, this quest for a magic artifact is really about one man, who had given up all hope, desperately clinging to the impossible chance that his wife can be saved.

Merged review:

The author saw this sitting on my to-read shelf and sent me a note asking if I wanted a copy to review. As we are here talking, I would hope my reply is obvious.

4.something stars. At the moment, let's go with 4.3 (ish).

The Camelot Shadow is a historical fiction mystery adventure fantasy... thing. Fantasy in that magic is real (though only known to secret societies and the like). Mystery in that they are trying to find something lost to history and legend. Threat at every turn brings adventure, and lots of detail about (I think) the late 1800s gives us historical fiction. Weave in a re-imagining of Arthurian legend and you have this book. Well, and scotch. A lot of scotch.

As a few of my GR friends know, I've had a terrible time with books lately. Mostly in that the books I am reading are well done, but I simply do not like them. So I was elated to find that this one is well written, and I enjoyed it. I didn't want to throw it across the room a single time, which might not sound like a high bar, but trust me, I've wanted to throw a lot of books lately. Perhaps I am just more critical as I age.

One thing I found especially good is that I enjoyed reading about all of the characters. There are no characters like Bran (from ASoIaF) where you want to skip any chapter he happens to be in (He is boring. It is known). There's no Katniss off moping in a closet somewhere. You won't want to be best friends with some of them, but skimming a few pages forward because a character entered a scene never crossed my mind.

This is a fairly complex story with dense enough prose to slow you down as you read. I saw a person or two comment on the word choices, and while I never reached for a dictionary for a meaning, I did go look up 'indefatigable' to see if that was real or just some prefixes that happened to make sense. ;)

That being said, the dialogue is excellent, and often funny. I didn't find myself rereading pages or anything. It's not confusing. It just has words like 'indefatigable' in the fight scenes.

Ultimately though, this quest for a magic artifact is really about one man, who had given up all hope, desperately clinging to the impossible chance that his wife can be saved.]]> 3.89 2014 The Camelot Shadow (Camelot Shadow, #1)

author: Sean Gibson
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2015/06/13
date added: 2024/09/22
shelves: 2015, fiction, fantasy, mystery
review:
The author saw this sitting on my to-read shelf and sent me a note asking if I wanted a copy to review. As we are here talking, I would hope my reply is obvious.

4.something stars. At the moment, let's go with 4.3 (ish).

The Camelot Shadow is a historical fiction mystery adventure fantasy... thing. Fantasy in that magic is real (though only known to secret societies and the like). Mystery in that they are trying to find something lost to history and legend. Threat at every turn brings adventure, and lots of detail about (I think) the late 1800s gives us historical fiction. Weave in a re-imagining of Arthurian legend and you have this book. Well, and scotch. A lot of scotch.

As a few of my GR friends know, I've had a terrible time with books lately. Mostly in that the books I am reading are well done, but I simply do not like them. So I was elated to find that this one is well written, and I enjoyed it. I didn't want to throw it across the room a single time, which might not sound like a high bar, but trust me, I've wanted to throw a lot of books lately. Perhaps I am just more critical as I age.

One thing I found especially good is that I enjoyed reading about all of the characters. There are no characters like Bran (from ASoIaF) where you want to skip any chapter he happens to be in (He is boring. It is known). There's no Katniss off moping in a closet somewhere. You won't want to be best friends with some of them, but skimming a few pages forward because a character entered a scene never crossed my mind.

This is a fairly complex story with dense enough prose to slow you down as you read. I saw a person or two comment on the word choices, and while I never reached for a dictionary for a meaning, I did go look up 'indefatigable' to see if that was real or just some prefixes that happened to make sense. ;)

That being said, the dialogue is excellent, and often funny. I didn't find myself rereading pages or anything. It's not confusing. It just has words like 'indefatigable' in the fight scenes.

Ultimately though, this quest for a magic artifact is really about one man, who had given up all hope, desperately clinging to the impossible chance that his wife can be saved.

Merged review:

The author saw this sitting on my to-read shelf and sent me a note asking if I wanted a copy to review. As we are here talking, I would hope my reply is obvious.

4.something stars. At the moment, let's go with 4.3 (ish).

The Camelot Shadow is a historical fiction mystery adventure fantasy... thing. Fantasy in that magic is real (though only known to secret societies and the like). Mystery in that they are trying to find something lost to history and legend. Threat at every turn brings adventure, and lots of detail about (I think) the late 1800s gives us historical fiction. Weave in a re-imagining of Arthurian legend and you have this book. Well, and scotch. A lot of scotch.

As a few of my GR friends know, I've had a terrible time with books lately. Mostly in that the books I am reading are well done, but I simply do not like them. So I was elated to find that this one is well written, and I enjoyed it. I didn't want to throw it across the room a single time, which might not sound like a high bar, but trust me, I've wanted to throw a lot of books lately. Perhaps I am just more critical as I age.

One thing I found especially good is that I enjoyed reading about all of the characters. There are no characters like Bran (from ASoIaF) where you want to skip any chapter he happens to be in (He is boring. It is known). There's no Katniss off moping in a closet somewhere. You won't want to be best friends with some of them, but skimming a few pages forward because a character entered a scene never crossed my mind.

This is a fairly complex story with dense enough prose to slow you down as you read. I saw a person or two comment on the word choices, and while I never reached for a dictionary for a meaning, I did go look up 'indefatigable' to see if that was real or just some prefixes that happened to make sense. ;)

That being said, the dialogue is excellent, and often funny. I didn't find myself rereading pages or anything. It's not confusing. It just has words like 'indefatigable' in the fight scenes.

Ultimately though, this quest for a magic artifact is really about one man, who had given up all hope, desperately clinging to the impossible chance that his wife can be saved.
]]> Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) 18958215
Now he’s a hitman.

In a near-future New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to “tap in” to a sophisticated virtual reality, and those who are left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets.? When his latest client hires him to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist, he must navigate between these two worlds—the wasteland reality and the slick fantasy—to finish his job, clear his conscience, and make sure he’s not the one who winds up in the ground.]]> 256 Adam Sternbergh 0385349009 Christopher 3 3.67 2014 Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

author: Adam Sternbergh
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2015/08/08
date added: 2024/09/17
shelves: mystery, library-has-ebook, 2015, fiction, noir
review:
This starts really really well, and then seems to fall apart during the last third. I might do a full fledged review later, but for now I just don't care enough. I'll read the blurb and some reviews of the next one, but this one didn't have enough hitman in it considering its lead character is a frikkin hitman, and didn't have enough mystery in it considering how noir the tone is.
]]> The Symbiot (The Symbiot #1) 30846310
"In the Symbiot, Weatherall has created a spine chilling tale reminiscent of the style of Stephen King"

TDC Book Reviews

“Lovecraftian atmosphere and themes at their best. Michel Weatherall is a master of this style of horror - he'll keep you up all night reading, then for days just thinking about it."Apt 613's Laurie Stewart, Author"Devoted music enthusiast and accomplished pianist, Lorne S. Gibbons, realizes the grim truth regarding a long lost and forbidden music as an evil entity is unleashed which threatens all existing life of Earth. As a crescendo of unknowable forces prepare to wipe out anyone in their way, Lorne and Veronica begin a race against complete annihilation. With little reinforcements, Lorne and Veronica have to fight against the god-aspiring creature to avoid further bloodshed. However, when godly power collides with humanity, the results are devastating."Joshua Hubley"One man's musical passion leads on a temporal hunt through a Lovecraftian world on a collision course with extinction! Reminiscent with Guy de Maupassant's The Horla" 'Seph Sayers, Blogger & Book Reviewer]]> 160 Broken Keys Publishing 0994818912 Christopher 0 to-read, kindle-unlimited 3.69 2015 The Symbiot (The Symbiot #1)

author: Broken Keys Publishing
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/17
shelves: to-read, kindle-unlimited
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Curse of Rion Castle (The Neuro #2)]]> 34859199 505 Andrei Livadny 8088231183 Christopher 0 4.01

author: Andrei Livadny
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.01
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/11
shelves: dont-worry-about-it, audiobook
review:

]]> The Call of Cthulhu 15730101 The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.]]> 43 H.P. Lovecraft Christopher 4 3.97 1928

author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1928
rating: 4
read at: 2015/11/02
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: 2015, classics, horror, fiction, short-story, audiobook, lovecraft
review:
One of my favorite aspects of Lovecraftian horror is that the narrators are almost always rational men trying to explain why the things they are seeing/experiencing can't possibly be happening.
]]> <![CDATA[Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy]]> 38673 Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie let this remarkable child grow a little older and he became the boy-hero of Neverland, making his first appearance, with Wendy, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys, in Peter and Wendy. The Peter Pan stories were Barrie's only works for children but, as their persistent popularity shows, their themes of imaginative escape continue to charm even those who long ago left Neverland. This is the first edition to include both texts in one volume and the first to a present an extensively annotated text for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.]]> 240 J.M. Barrie 0192839292 Christopher 0 dont-worry-about-it 4.07 1906

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy

author: J.M. Barrie
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1906
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: dont-worry-about-it
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Until Death Do Us Part, Vol. 1]]> 25156649 448 Hiroshi Takashige Christopher 3 2016, manga 3.29

author: Hiroshi Takashige
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.29
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2016/02/24
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: 2016, manga
review:
It's fine, I guess? The premise is interesting enough, but it feels like we're setting up for something more interesting. While the series may turn out to be really good, this volume by itself is merely fine.
]]> <![CDATA[If on a Winter's Night a Traveller]]> 52513609 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino. You like it. But there's a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a replacement. But the replacement seems to be a totally different story. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary and a quest. But the hero of them all is you, the reader.]]> 260 Italo Calvino Christopher 0 to-read 3.83 1979 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

author: Italo Calvino
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1979
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/06/11
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream]]> 20813135 Ich denke, also bin ich109 Jahre nach dem Ende des Dritten Weltkriegs leben nur noch fünf Menschen. Sie hausen in unterirdischen Stollen, immer am Rande des Verhungerns, und werden jede Minute ihres Lebens von einem Supercomputer gefoltert, der ein Bewusstsein erlangt hat – und mit ihm unendlichen Hass auf seine Erbauer. Es gibt nur einen einzigen Ausweg für die gequ?lten Menschen – doch welcher von ihnen wird stark genug sein, ihn zu w?hlen? Die Kurzgeschichte ?Ich muss schreien und habe keinen Mund“ erscheint als exklusives E-Book Only bei Heyne und ist zusammen mit weiteren Stories von Harlan Ellison auch in dem Sammelband ?Ich muss schreien und habe keinen Mund“ enthalten. Sie umfasst ca. 22 Buchseiten.]]> 20 Harlan Ellison Christopher 5 3.73 1967 I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

author: Harlan Ellison
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1967
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2023/10/28
shelves: short-story, horror, science-fiction, dat-title-doe
review:

]]> The Colour Out of Space 10129880 H.P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth century practitioner of the horror story, introducing to the genre a new evil, monstrous, pervasive and unconquerable. At the heart of these three stories are terrors unthinkable and strange: a crash-landing meteorite, the wretched inhabitant of an ancient castle and a grave-robber's curse. This book includes "The Colour Out Of Space", "The Outsider" and "The Hound".]]> 78 H.P. Lovecraft 0141196106 Christopher 3 4.09 1927

author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1927
rating: 3
read at: 2017/06/16
date added: 2023/10/02
shelves: 2017, fiction, audiobook, horror, classics, lovecraft
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #6)]]> 685371 387 Laurell K. Hamilton 0515134511 Christopher 4 4.00 1997

The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #6)

author: Laurell K. Hamilton
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2023/09/28
shelves: fiction, fantasy, urban-fantasy, vampires, paranormal
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts of Darkness]]> 34200870
Three of Marvel's most hardcore heroes take on Blackheart, demonic son of Mephisto! When Danny Ketch, Logan and Frank Castle are lured to the Mid-West town of Christ's Crown, they are offered a devilish deal: kill the king of hell, and the answers to secrets that plague them will be revealed! But with the life of a local girl in the balance, can Ghost Rider, Wolverine and the Punisher resist Blackheart's pact? As the demon's design unfolds, and his deadly Corrupt overrun the town, all hope lies with the vigilante trio. Will they be overcome by the darkness in their hearts, or will it prove to be their greatest source of strength?]]> 102 Howard Mackie 1302496166 Christopher 0 2015, fiction, graphic-novels 3.51 1991 Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts of Darkness

Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts of Darkness

author: Howard Mackie
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.51
book published: 1991
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/09/22
shelves: 2015, fiction, graphic-novels
review:

]]> A Fish Dinner in Memison 274065 A Fish Dinner in Memison amuse themselves with the creation of a sadly flawed world … and in an instant spend a lifetime in it.]]> 318 E.R. Eddison 0345278534 Christopher 0 dont-worry-about-it 3.69 1941

author: E.R. Eddison
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1941
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/09/21
shelves: dont-worry-about-it
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening]]> 55883882
Collects MONSTRESS #1-6

About the Creators:

New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Marjorie Liu is best known for her fiction and comic books. She teaches comic book writing at MIT, and leads a class on Popular Fiction at the Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. Ms. Liu's extensive work includes the bestselling "Astonishing X-Men" for Marvel Comics, which featured the gay wedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Prior to writing full-time, Liu was a lawyer. She currently resides in Boston.

Sana Takeda is an illustrator and comic book artist who was born in Niigata, and now resides in Tokyo, Japan. At age 20 she started out as a 3D CGI designer for SEGA, a Japanese video game company, and became a freelance artist when she was 25. She is still an artist, and has worked on titles such as "X-23" and "Ms. Marvel" for Marvel Comics, and is an illustrator for trading card games in Japan.]]> 192 Marjorie M. Liu 1632157098 Christopher 5 Are you scared of me?

... Yes.

We have that much in common. I'm scared of me, too.

Monstress... can I take an aside before we even start? Is that a thing? How great is this title? Monstrous Mistress. It describes our lead. It describes the leader of the human society. It describes the leader of the Arcanic society. It describes half a dozen other characters. And all in slightly different ways. It's so good.

Monstress is about Maika Halfwolf, a teenage half-wolf (? they don't explain if that's literal or not, but she isn't human at the least) who lost an arm in the war. She also lost her mother, and now she is after answers... about something. Look, it's complicated. Or mysterious... something. Anyway, the way she choses to get these answers is to get caught and sold back into slavery. Yes, back into slavery. She was enslaved before when she was younger, where she met her best friend, Tupa. So the first page of the first issue opens with a naked teenager with one arm being sold at auction. Which sets the tone for the whole series.

It's a dark steampunk/asian/fantasy world full of violence and racists and survivors just trying to maintain the peace, lest the world be torn anew. There are a stack of themes in the series, which I don't usually get into talking about with comics, but they're pretty important here, though I don't find them preachy. I wouldn't call racism the dominate theme, but it is certainly present, from both sides of the war. Even our lead dabbles.

Everyone knows your kind are thieves.

Ah, yes, the casual bigotry of fools.

But the dominate theme is about how survivors find the inner strength to continue. About how someone monstrous (literally) conquers her own demons (again, literally), and what that does to her and her friends. All wrapped in the above setting with some supernatural thrown in because this is still a fantasy story.

The priests say they're the ghosts of dead gods. But I don't believe they're ghosts.

All of this is about what makes the series compelling, but not what's going to make a reader of Batman or X-Men pick it up. Well, our lead is on a mission to learn things that people would rather she not know, and for unknown reasons has a lot of people trying to kill her along the way. She is badass, and quickly earns her monster descriptor in all senses of the word. There is a lot of violence, and a lot of action. If the capes lovers aren't fans, it won't be due to lack of action. It'll be that it's too Gaiman-esque, most likely.

She's even more trouble than Moriko.

I doubt that.

Yes. I doubted, too. And then I was dead.

There is some levity along the way, and some much needed innocence in the form of Kippa, a fox girl, who escapes slavery when Maika makes her move. She's weak, and brave, and scared, and loyal. She's that reminder of how the world should be, and a means to show the reader that Maika is just as scary as she seems, even to her new friends.

He's an Arcanic, miss. He must be safe.

Am I safe, little fox?

I think you try to be. You're just not very good at it.

And there's a whole race of talking cats, which is always awesome.

I just finished that and realized while proofreading that I don't even mention the art. It's so good. Most of you will scoff that this one, and I won't screencapture it because it's pretty spoiler heavy, but there are three panels where two people are talking and Kippa is taking something from one to give to the other. They are very stoic, and she is terrified of the whole process. In these three panels, Kippa is slighly brighter than normal. The literal colors in the panels. It does a great job of separating out her action, which is the only action happening, from the speakers, who are surrounding her, but not talking to her. It's subtle. And it's great. And some of you are going to claim that looking at visual designs all day is making me see things that aren't there. Possible that it isn't intentional and is just down to her wearing brighter clothes than the other two, and a slightly odd perspective, and some possible fog that only appears for this scene. But she doesn't stand out like that in the other panels on the same page... so I'm going with it.

TL;DR; That's what the stars are for. Lazy people. Are you new here?

Merged review:

Are you scared of me?

... Yes.

We have that much in common. I'm scared of me, too.

Monstress... can I take an aside before we even start? Is that a thing? How great is this title? Monstrous Mistress. It describes our lead. It describes the leader of the human society. It describes the leader of the Arcanic society. It describes half a dozen other characters. And all in slightly different ways. It's so good.

Monstress is about Maika Halfwolf, a teenage half-wolf (? they don't explain if that's literal or not, but she isn't human at the least) who lost an arm in the war. She also lost her mother, and now she is after answers... about something. Look, it's complicated. Or mysterious... something. Anyway, the way she choses to get these answers is to get caught and sold back into slavery. Yes, back into slavery. She was enslaved before when she was younger, where she met her best friend, Tupa. So the first page of the first issue opens with a naked teenager with one arm being sold at auction. Which sets the tone for the whole series.

It's a dark steampunk/asian/fantasy world full of violence and racists and survivors just trying to maintain the peace, lest the world be torn anew. There are a stack of themes in the series, which I don't usually get into talking about with comics, but they're pretty important here, though I don't find them preachy. I wouldn't call racism the dominate theme, but it is certainly present, from both sides of the war. Even our lead dabbles.

Everyone knows your kind are thieves.

Ah, yes, the casual bigotry of fools.

The priests say they're the ghosts of dead gods. But I don't believe they're ghosts.

She's even more trouble than Moriko.

I doubt that.

Yes. I doubted, too. And then I was dead.

He's an Arcanic, miss. He must be safe.

Am I safe, little fox?

I think you try to be. You're just not very good at it.

And there's a whole race of talking cats, which is always awesome.

TL;DR; That's what the stars are for. Lazy people. Are you new here?]]> 3.96 2016 Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

author: Marjorie M. Liu
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2017/06/18
date added: 2023/08/28
shelves: 2017, fantasy, graphic-novels, hoopla, magic, steampunk, supernatural
review:

Are you scared of me?

... Yes.

We have that much in common. I'm scared of me, too.

Everyone knows your kind are thieves.

Ah, yes, the casual bigotry of fools.

The priests say they're the ghosts of dead gods. But I don't believe they're ghosts.

She's even more trouble than Moriko.

I doubt that.

Yes. I doubted, too. And then I was dead.

He's an Arcanic, miss. He must be safe.

Am I safe, little fox?

I think you try to be. You're just not very good at it.

And there's a whole race of talking cats, which is always awesome.

TL;DR; That's what the stars are for. Lazy people. Are you new here?

Merged review:

Are you scared of me?

... Yes.

We have that much in common. I'm scared of me, too.

Everyone knows your kind are thieves.

Ah, yes, the casual bigotry of fools.

The priests say they're the ghosts of dead gods. But I don't believe they're ghosts.

She's even more trouble than Moriko.

I doubt that.

Yes. I doubted, too. And then I was dead.

He's an Arcanic, miss. He must be safe.

Am I safe, little fox?

I think you try to be. You're just not very good at it.

And there's a whole race of talking cats, which is always awesome.

TL;DR; That's what the stars are for. Lazy people. Are you new here?
]]> <![CDATA[Scene of the Crime: A Little Piece of Goodnight]]> 106031 105 Ed Brubaker 1563896702 Christopher 0 to-read, graphic-novels 3.91 2000

author: Ed Brubaker
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2000
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/03
shelves: to-read, graphic-novels
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Dead House (The Dead House, #1)]]> 22396591
Re-opened police records, psychiatric reports, transcripts of video footage and fragments of diary reveal a web of deceit and intrigue, violence and murder, raising a whole lot more questions than it answers.

Who was Kaitlyn and why did she only appear at night? Did she really exist or was she a figment of a disturbed mind? What were the illicit rituals taking place at the school? And just what did happen at Elmbridge in the events leading up to ‘the Johnson Incident’?]]> 440 Dawn Kurtagich 1780622341 Christopher 0 to-read 3.68 2015 The Dead House (The Dead House, #1)

author: Dawn Kurtagich
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/02
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Red Flag: A History of Communism]]> 6675452 720 David Priestland 0802119247 Christopher 0 3.81 2009

author: David Priestland
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/31
shelves: to-read, askhistorians, history, non-fiction, politics, epub
review:

]]> Savages (Savages #2) 8008928
When they refuse to back down, the cartel escalates its threat, kidnapping Ophelia, the boys' playmate and confidante. O's abduction sets off a dizzying array of ingenious negotiations and gripping plot twists that will captivate readers eager to learn the costs of freedom and the price of one amazing high.]]> 302 Don Winslow 1439183368 Christopher 0 to-read 3.84 2010 Savages (Savages #2)

author: Don Winslow
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/28
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening]]> 30333227
Collects MONSTRESS #1-6]]> 208 Marjorie M. Liu Christopher 5 Are you scared of me?

... Yes.

We have that much in common. I'm scared of me, too.

Monstress... can I take an aside before we even start? Is that a thing? How great is this title? Monstrous Mistress. It describes our lead. It describes the leader of the human society. It describes the leader of the Arcanic society. It describes half a dozen other characters. And all in slightly different ways. It's so good.

Monstress is about Maika Halfwolf, a teenage half-wolf (? they don't explain if that's literal or not, but she isn't human at the least) who lost an arm in the war. She also lost her mother, and now she is after answers... about something. Look, it's complicated. Or mysterious... something. Anyway, the way she choses to get these answers is to get caught and sold back into slavery. Yes, back into slavery. She was enslaved before when she was younger, where she met her best friend, Tupa. So the first page of the first issue opens with a naked teenager with one arm being sold at auction. Which sets the tone for the whole series.

It's a dark steampunk/asian/fantasy world full of violence and racists and survivors just trying to maintain the peace, lest the world be torn anew. There are a stack of themes in the series, which I don't usually get into talking about with comics, but they're pretty important here, though I don't find them preachy. I wouldn't call racism the dominate theme, but it is certainly present, from both sides of the war. Even our lead dabbles.

Everyone knows your kind are thieves.

Ah, yes, the casual bigotry of fools.

The priests say they're the ghosts of dead gods. But I don't believe they're ghosts.

She's even more trouble than Moriko.

I doubt that.

Yes. I doubted, too. And then I was dead.

He's an Arcanic, miss. He must be safe.

Am I safe, little fox?

I think you try to be. You're just not very good at it.

And there's a whole race of talking cats, which is always awesome.

TL;DR; That's what the stars are for. Lazy people. Are you new here?]]> 3.93 2016 Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening

author: Marjorie M. Liu
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2023/07/11
shelves:
review:

Are you scared of me?

... Yes.

We have that much in common. I'm scared of me, too.

Everyone knows your kind are thieves.

Ah, yes, the casual bigotry of fools.

The priests say they're the ghosts of dead gods. But I don't believe they're ghosts.

She's even more trouble than Moriko.

I doubt that.

Yes. I doubted, too. And then I was dead.

He's an Arcanic, miss. He must be safe.

Am I safe, little fox?

I think you try to be. You're just not very good at it.

And there's a whole race of talking cats, which is always awesome.

TL;DR; That's what the stars are for. Lazy people. Are you new here?
]]> The Syndicate 28940487 Stassi's next assignment takes her to Paris in the 1920’s, in search of a lost manuscript by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers. She and her partner, Gaige, are swept up in the City of Light during the height of fashion and culture—as alluring a locale as they’ve ever visited. But a seedier side of life lurks beneath the glamorous fa?ade, and the pair quickly learns this run is more dangerous than any of their previous missions.
Because history isn’t playing out as it should be—a first for the syndicate. When the stakes are raised and it becomes a matter of life or death, Stassi and Gaige must ultimately decide how far they’re willing to go to ensure the future as they know it.]]> Sophie Davis 1310788820 Christopher 0 to-read 4.23 2016 The Syndicate

author: Sophie Davis
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/23
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle]]> 35967101 A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park meets Inception, by way of Agatha Christie and Black Mirror.

'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.'

It is meant to be a celebration but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed.

But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.

The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath...

Also titled as The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.]]> 505 Stuart Turton Christopher 5 You are cordially invited to Blackheath House for
The Masquerade

I don't want to tell you anything about this book beyond the most basics of basics. But you're reading a review, so I imagine I should tell you something beyond "go read this". Fine. Depending on what blurb you read, I think I can still tell you less plot than it does.

You're reading reviews, so there are two things you need to know by the end of it. "Why should I be interested in this?" and "Is it any good?"

Why should I be interested in this?

1) It's a mystery/thriller about solving a murder.
2) It involves a time loop. Our MC relives the same day multiple times as he attempts to solve a murder that happens at the end of that day.
3) Each day, our MC inhabits a different person and lives the day as that person.

Ok, that sounds cool... it is good?

It's a 500 page book I read in a day.

So that's a 'yes'.

How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?

I don't even know what to tell you. This is Stuart Turton's debut novel, but you wouldn't know it. The writing is excellent. The plotting is excellent. The characters are excellent, in a "I want to punch some of them and hug others" sort of way. There are enough twists and turns so that even when you think you have things figured out, you'll manage to be wrong... but also right. Look, it's complicated.

And that's going to be a sore point for some people. There are a few reviews that complain about being confused. I don't much know what to say about that. The beginning of the book is very confusing, but it's supposed to be because our MC has zero idea what is going on at first. I never felt like I missed anything, only that I was adding on questions that I was sure would be answered in due time. Others apparently held onto that confusion the entire novel. So I'll give you that. The plot is complicated, the characters all have secrets, and they aren't exactly apt to spill them before our MC. But that complication is a selling point, not a negative. There are a lot of sinister plots underfoot at Blackheath. Life is complicated, and I appreciate a book that doesn't treat me as if I can only hold one thought in my head at a time.

I never felt the need to go back and reread a section, though I did flip back to the opening pages which show a character list a couple of times to remind myself who exactly a character was. "Wait, is Peter the father or the son?" That sort of thing. But I'm terrible with names.

So if the plot and characters and twists and general mystery are great, what put me off while reading it? The primary thing that bothered me, and this is a common complaint I have with books, so it's probably just my thing, is that our MC is a little slow. More than once I told my book to stop being stupid. Out loud. Sometimes it is good that I live alone. Our MC is reliving the same day through multiple people, so he doesn't want to change certain things so it doesn't screw with what he already knows. That's fine. But he does want to know if he can change things. Also fine. So then he does something asinine which would have instead been a wonderful thing to change. It wasn't important. It was just stupid. I know that's vague, but the point is that our MC doesn't always go with his own interests, even immediately after declaring those interests to himself. The book gives a mostly excellent reason for this in that the 'hosts' whose bodies he is living in are still there. Their instincts and addictions still drive the body, so sometimes he does what they would do, not what he should do. It's great for the most part. I think for me the issue was that the portions where he inhabits the people with the worst character flaws drag on too long. And there are a couple of those back to back.

"People are stupid" is my personal pet peeve though, so I doubt you will have the same level of annoyance that I did. And you see that ultimately I didn't remove stars for it. I mean, I didn't even stop reading for the day over it. But "time loop mystery" is on my list of "greatest things ever", so I doubt you will have the same level of joy that I had in that aspect either. So in the end, who knows? This is a very well written murder mystery set in a time loop. If that's your thing, you honestly don't have a lot of options, so certainly give The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle a go.

---

In other, completely unrelated to the words on the page, news... If Stuart ever reads this for some reason, please have a more flamboyant signature when signing books. Sanderson has a great one, as seen here. Lyndsay Faye has a good one as well. They're just interesting to look at. Signed, Some Random Signed-Book Collector]]> 3.87 2018 The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

author: Stuart Turton
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2018/03/03
date added: 2023/04/21
shelves: _signed, 2018, dat-title-doe, epub, fiction, time-travel, mystery, thriller, locked-door-mystery, time-loop
review:

You are cordially invited to Blackheath House for
The Masquerade

I don't want to tell you anything about this book beyond the most basics of basics. But you're reading a review, so I imagine I should tell you something beyond "go read this". Fine. Depending on what blurb you read, I think I can still tell you less plot than it does.

You're reading reviews, so there are two things you need to know by the end of it. "Why should I be interested in this?" and "Is it any good?"

Why should I be interested in this?

1) It's a mystery/thriller about solving a murder.
2) It involves a time loop. Our MC relives the same day multiple times as he attempts to solve a murder that happens at the end of that day.
3) Each day, our MC inhabits a different person and lives the day as that person.

Ok, that sounds cool... it is good?

It's a 500 page book I read in a day.

So that's a 'yes'.

How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?

I don't even know what to tell you. This is Stuart Turton's debut novel, but you wouldn't know it. The writing is excellent. The plotting is excellent. The characters are excellent, in a "I want to punch some of them and hug others" sort of way. There are enough twists and turns so that even when you think you have things figured out, you'll manage to be wrong... but also right. Look, it's complicated.

And that's going to be a sore point for some people. There are a few reviews that complain about being confused. I don't much know what to say about that. The beginning of the book is very confusing, but it's supposed to be because our MC has zero idea what is going on at first. I never felt like I missed anything, only that I was adding on questions that I was sure would be answered in due time. Others apparently held onto that confusion the entire novel. So I'll give you that. The plot is complicated, the characters all have secrets, and they aren't exactly apt to spill them before our MC. But that complication is a selling point, not a negative. There are a lot of sinister plots underfoot at Blackheath. Life is complicated, and I appreciate a book that doesn't treat me as if I can only hold one thought in my head at a time.

I never felt the need to go back and reread a section, though I did flip back to the opening pages which show a character list a couple of times to remind myself who exactly a character was. "Wait, is Peter the father or the son?" That sort of thing. But I'm terrible with names.

So if the plot and characters and twists and general mystery are great, what put me off while reading it? The primary thing that bothered me, and this is a common complaint I have with books, so it's probably just my thing, is that our MC is a little slow. More than once I told my book to stop being stupid. Out loud. Sometimes it is good that I live alone. Our MC is reliving the same day through multiple people, so he doesn't want to change certain things so it doesn't screw with what he already knows. That's fine. But he does want to know if he can change things. Also fine. So then he does something asinine which would have instead been a wonderful thing to change. It wasn't important. It was just stupid. I know that's vague, but the point is that our MC doesn't always go with his own interests, even immediately after declaring those interests to himself. The book gives a mostly excellent reason for this in that the 'hosts' whose bodies he is living in are still there. Their instincts and addictions still drive the body, so sometimes he does what they would do, not what he should do. It's great for the most part. I think for me the issue was that the portions where he inhabits the people with the worst character flaws drag on too long. And there are a couple of those back to back.

"People are stupid" is my personal pet peeve though, so I doubt you will have the same level of annoyance that I did. And you see that ultimately I didn't remove stars for it. I mean, I didn't even stop reading for the day over it. But "time loop mystery" is on my list of "greatest things ever", so I doubt you will have the same level of joy that I had in that aspect either. So in the end, who knows? This is a very well written murder mystery set in a time loop. If that's your thing, you honestly don't have a lot of options, so certainly give The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle a go.

---

In other, completely unrelated to the words on the page, news... If Stuart ever reads this for some reason, please have a more flamboyant signature when signing books. Sanderson has a great one, as seen here. Lyndsay Faye has a good one as well. They're just interesting to look at. Signed, Some Random Signed-Book Collector
]]> I Kill 8601262 544 Giorgio Faletti 174266010X Christopher 0 dont-worry-about-it 3.69 2002 I Kill

author: Giorgio Faletti
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2002
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/11/09
shelves: dont-worry-about-it
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Goodbye Man (Colter Shaw, #2)]]> 52669054 A thrilling new Colter Shaw adventure by the master of suspense, Jeffery Deaver.

In pursuit of two young men accused of terrible hate crimes, Colter Shaw stumbles upon a clue to another mystery. In an effort to save the life of a young woman--and possibly others--he travels to the wilderness of Washington State to investigate a mysterious organization. Is it a community that consoles the bereaved? Or a dangerous cult under the sway of a captivating leader? As he peels back the layers of truth, Shaw finds that some people will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden.

All the while, Shaw must unravel an equally deadly enigma: locating and deciphering a message hidden by his father years ago, just before his death--a message that will have life-and-death consequences.]]> 417 Jeffery Deaver 0525535977 Christopher 4 3.76 2020 The Goodbye Man (Colter Shaw, #2)

author: Jeffery Deaver
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2021/11/27
date added: 2021/12/19
shelves: cults, thriller, 2021, fiction, mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2)]]> 227729 532 Jeffery Deaver Christopher 4 4.16 1998

author: Jeffery Deaver
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1998
rating: 4
read at: 2021/12/18
date added: 2021/12/19
shelves: 2021, fiction, mystery, serial-killer
review:

]]> Harrison Bergeron 10176119 "The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way..."

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212 and 213 to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is stupider, uglier, weaker, or slower than anyone else. The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced.

One April, fourteen-year-old Harrison Bergeron is taken away from his parents, George and Hazel, by the government and to a place unknown. But what happens in the aftermath will challenge the status quo and inspire his peers about the hidden potential within one's own individuality.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922–2007) was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII, and in particular his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. The novelist is best known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as 'Slaughterhouse-Five' (1969), 'Cat's Cradle' (1963), and 'Breakfast of Champions' (1973).]]> 9 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Christopher 4 2015, fiction, short-story 4.14 1961 Harrison Bergeron

author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1961
rating: 4
read at: 2015/01/01
date added: 2021/12/19
shelves: 2015, fiction, short-story
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Very First Damned Thing (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #0.5)]]> 26308468 The Long and Short of It.

Ever wondered how it all began?

It’s two years since the final victory at the Battersea Barricades. The fighting might be finished, but for Dr Bairstow, just now setting up St Mary's, the struggle is only beginning.

How will he assemble his team?

From where will his funding come?

How can he overcome the massed ranks of the Society for the Protection of Historical Buildings?

How do stolen furniture, a practical demonstration at the Stirrup Charge at Waterloo, students’ alcohol-ridden urine, a widowed urban guerrilla, a young man wearing exciting knitwear, and four naked security guards all combine to become the St Mary’s of the future?]]> 74 Jodi Taylor Christopher 0 4.03 2015 The Very First Damned Thing (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #0.5)

The Very First Damned Thing (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #0.5)

author: Jodi Taylor
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2019/01/01
date added: 2021/12/19
shelves: 2019, audiobook, fiction, time-travel
review:

]]> 終わりのセラフ 7 [Owari no Seraph 7] 23350010 204 Takaya Kagami 4088802837 Christopher 0 2017, manga, vampires 4.39 2015

author: Takaya Kagami
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2017/01/22
date added: 2021/12/19
shelves: 2017, manga, vampires
review:

]]> 終わりのセラフ 6 [Owari no Seraph 6] 23349971 204 Takaya Kagami 4088801806 Christopher 0 2017, manga, vampires 4.38 2014

author: Takaya Kagami
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at: 2017/01/22
date added: 2021/12/19
shelves: 2017, manga, vampires
review:

]]> Tell Me Something 1362008 48 Jason 1560975660 Christopher 4 2015, graphic-novels 3.55 2002

author: Jason
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 2015/05/22
date added: 2021/12/19
shelves: 2015, graphic-novels
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Final Twist (Colter Shaw, #3)]]> 55573517 "The master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) returns with a devilishly good thriller, and reward seeker Colter Shaw's most personal case to date.

Just hours after the harrowing events of The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw is hot on the trail of a missing person whose disappearance he desperately hopes to explain: his own father.

Following the enigmatic clues his father left behind, Shaw explores one site after another, seeing clearly for the first time what strange business his father was up to--and what dangerous people he was working against. But when Shaw is caught by these same people, he's rescued by an intruder: his own older brother Russell, from whom he's been estranged for more than a decade. After saving Shaw, Russell stays on, and the brothers--both very different and oddly similar--join forces to identify the family.

This novel is a race against time to both find the family and to pursue leads to solve a decades-old mystery.]]> 416 Jeffery Deaver 0525539131 Christopher 4 3.79 2021 The Final Twist (Colter Shaw, #3)

author: Jeffery Deaver
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2021/12/10
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]]> <![CDATA[A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)]]> 34496624
Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carré and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new.]]> 264 John Le Carré 0735225117 Christopher 4 2021, fiction, spies 3.79 2017 A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)

author: John Le Carré
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[False Value (Rivers of London, #8)]]> 45016688 Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company.

Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant's favourite son.

Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the SCC. A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, and forward to the future of artificial intelligence. A secret that is just as magical as it technological - and just as dangerous.

]]> 349 Ben Aaronovitch Christopher 0 4.09 2020 False Value (Rivers of London, #8)

author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[The October Man (Rivers of London, #7.5)]]> 42389859
Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything.

Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to get in, deal with the problem, and get out with the minimum of fuss, personal danger and paperwork. With the help of frighteningly enthusiastic local cop, Vanessa Sommer, he’s quick to link the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men – and to realise they may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century. But the rot is still spreading, literally and with the suspect list extending to people born before Frederick the Great solving the case may mean unearthing the city’s secret magical history.

. . . so long as that history doesn’t kill them first.]]> 180 Ben Aaronovitch 1473224314 Christopher 0 3.93 2019 The October Man (Rivers of London, #7.5)

The October Man (Rivers of London, #7.5)

author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)]]> 569429
“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”— The New York Times Book Review

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose.

Hell takes a number of there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one.?

Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?

“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist. . . . He is anything but harmless.”— The Washington Post Book World]]> 288 Douglas Adams 0345379330 Christopher 0 3.99 1992 Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

author: Douglas Adams
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Spider-man: The Death of Jean Dewolff]]> 11240292 167 Peter David 0785157212 Christopher 0 4.20

author: Peter David
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.20
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]]> The King of Infinite Space 55881109 In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical physicist, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiancée, Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father.

Meet Ben Dane: brilliant, devastating, devoted, honest to a fault (truly, a fault). His Broadway theater baron father is dead--but on purpose or by accident? The question rips him apart.

Unable to face alone his mother's ghastly remarriage to his uncle, Ben turns to his dearest friend, Horatio Patel, whom he hasn't seen since their relationship changed forever from platonic to something...other. Loyal to a fault (truly, a fault), Horatio is on the first flight to New York City when he finds himself next to a sly tailor who portends inevitable disaster--and who seems ominously like an architect of mayhem himself.

Meanwhile, Lia, sundered her from her loved ones thanks to her addiction recovery, and torn from her art, has been drawn into the fold of three florists from New Orleans, seemingly ageless sisters who teach her the language of flowers and whose magical bouquets hold both curses and cures--for a price.

On one explosive night, these kinetic forces will collide, and the only possible outcome is death. But in the masterly hands of Lyndsay Faye, the story we all know has abundant surprises in store. Impish, captivating, and achingly romantic, this is Hamlet as you've never seen it before.]]> 369 Lyndsay Faye 0525535896 Christopher 0 to-read, _signed, fiction 3.95 2021 The King of Infinite Space

author: Lyndsay Faye
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)]]> 10664113 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004XISI4A

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever.

Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.

From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.]]> 1125 George R.R. Martin Christopher 0 to-read, _signed 4.33 2011 A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)

author: George R.R. Martin
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)]]> 13497 Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.

Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.

The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.

Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.]]> 1060 George R.R. Martin 055358202X Christopher 0 _signed, to-read 4.16 2005 A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)

A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)

author: George R.R. Martin
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)]]> 62291 An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Here is the third volume in George R.R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Together, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.

Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords...]]> 1177 George R.R. Martin 055357342X Christopher 0 fiction, fantasy, _signed 4.54 2000 A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)

A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)

author: George R.R. Martin
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]]> <![CDATA[A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)]]> 10572
It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.

Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R.R. Martin stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.]]> 1009 George R.R. Martin 0553381695 Christopher 0 fantasy, fiction, _signed 4.42 1998 A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

author: George R.R. Martin
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)]]> 55671327 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court, where a young law clerk finds herself embroiled in a shocking mystery crafted by one of the most preeminent judges in America--from celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams.

"Abrams follows in Dan Brown's footprint with this masterfully plotted thriller that unfolds like the ultimate chess match--bold move to bolder move with lives hanging in the balance."--Lisa Gardner, author of Before She Disappeared

"A first-class legal thriller, favorably compared to many of the best, starting with The Pelican Brief, which it brings to mind. It's fast-paced and full of surprises--a terrific read."--Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent

Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together--excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn--the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases--has slipped into a coma, Avery's life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal guardian and power of attorney. Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery finds that Justice Wynn had been secretly researching one of the most controversial cases before the court--a proposed merger between an American biotech company and an Indian genetics firm, which promises to unleash breathtaking results in the medical field. She also discovers that Wynn suspected a dangerously related conspiracy that infiltrates the highest power corridors of Washington.

As political wrangling ensues in Washington to potentially replace the ailing judge whose life and survival Avery controls, she begins to unravel a carefully constructed, chesslike sequence of clues left behind by Wynn. She comes to see that Wynn had a much more personal stake in the controversial case and realizes his complex puzzle will lead her directly into harm's way in order to find the truth. While Justice Sleeps is a cunningly crafted, sophisticated novel, layered with myriad twists and a vibrant cast of characters. Drawing on her astute inside knowledge of the court and political landscape, Stacey Abrams shows herself to be not only a force for good in politics and voter fairness but also a major new talent in suspense fiction.]]> 367 Stacey Abrams 0385546572 Christopher 0 to-read, _signed, fiction 3.84 2021 While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)

author: Stacey Abrams
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.84
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]]> Firebreak 55711630
Until a chance encounter with a SpecOps operative in the game leads Mal to a horrifying discovery: the real-life operatives weren’t created by Stellaxis. They were kids, just like her, who lost everything in the war, and were stolen and augmented and tortured into becoming supersoldiers. The world worships them, but the world believes a lie.

The company controls every part of their lives, and defying them puts everything at risk—her water ration, her livelihood, her connectivity, her friends, her life—but she can’t just sit on the knowledge. She has to do something—even if doing something will bring the wrath of the most powerful company in the world down upon her.]]> 416 Nicole Kornher-Stace 198214274X Christopher 0 to-read, _signed 3.82 2021 Firebreak

author: Nicole Kornher-Stace
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia / The Big Nowhere / L.A. Confidential / White Jazz]]> 40911664
The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell.

The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel and the political novel. It is winter, 1950--and the L.A. County Grand Jury is out to slam movieland Reds. It's a reverential shuck--and the three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the glory they can. A series of brutal sex killings intervenes, and the job goes all-the-way bad.

L.A. Confidential is the great novel of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Political corruption. Scandal-rag journalism. Bad racial juju and gangland wars. Six local stiffs slaughtered in an all-night hash house. The glorious and overreaching LAPD on an unprecedented scale.

White Jazz gives us the tortured confession of a corrupt cop going down for the count. He's a slumlord, a killer, a parasitic exploiter. He's a pawn in a series of police power plays and starting to see that he's being had. He's just met a woman. Thus, he's determined to claw his way out of the horrifying world he's created--and he's determined to tell us everything.

The L.A. Quartet is a groundbreaking work of American popular fiction.]]> 1416 James Ellroy 110190805X Christopher 0 4.53 The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia / The Big Nowhere / L.A. Confidential / White Jazz

The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia / The Big Nowhere / L.A. Confidential / White Jazz

author: James Ellroy
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.53
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]]> <![CDATA[Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, #3)]]> 30263 There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice.

Between "runs," she has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor.

Rachel must also take a stand in the war that's raging in the city's underworld, since she helped put away its former vampire kingpin - and made a deal with a powerful demon to do so that could cost her an eternity of pain, torment, and degradation.

And now her dark "master" is coming to collect his due.]]> 501 Kim Harrison 006057299X Christopher 4 4.29 2005 Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, #3)

Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, #3)

author: Kim Harrison
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (The Hollows, #2)]]> 30262 453 Kim Harrison 0060572973 Christopher 5 4.25 2005

The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (The Hollows, #2)

author: Kim Harrison
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors]]> 39074550 An international bestseller

The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?"

"Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations--that also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes." --Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything

Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes . . . until it doesn't. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences.

Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit conversion error causes a plane to crash, or someone divides by zero and stalls a battleship in the middle of the ocean.

Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.]]> 314 Matt Parker 0241360196 Christopher 0 4.11 2019 Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

author: Matt Parker
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)]]> 19494 212 John Le Carré Christopher 4 fiction, spies, 2021 4.07 1963

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)

author: John Le Carré
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1963
rating: 4
read at: 2021/10/18
date added: 2021/11/21
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]]> <![CDATA[The Never Game (Colter Shaw, #1)]]> 41960011 The first installment in Jeffery Deaver’s Colter Shaw?series. The son of a survivalist family, Colter Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a “reward seeker,” traveling the country to help police solve crimes and locate missing persons for private citizens. “You’ve been abandoned. Escape if you can. Or die with dignity.” Hired by the father of a young woman who has gone missing in Silicon Valley, Shaw's search takes him into the dark heart of America’s cutthroat billion-dollar video-game industry. When another person goes missing, Shaw must Is a madman bringing a twisted video game to life? Encountering eccentric designers, trigger-happy gamers, and ruthless tech titans, Shaw soon learns that he isn't the only one on the someone is on his trail and closing fast....Named a Crime Novel of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Never Game proves once more why “Deaver is a genius when it comes to manipulation and deception” (Associated Press). ]]> 413 Jeffery Deaver 0525535969 Christopher 4 3.94 2019 The Never Game (Colter Shaw, #1)

author: Jeffery Deaver
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2021/11/19
date added: 2021/11/19
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie, #1)]]> 40020563 Ziba Mackenzie profiles killers. Now one is profiling her.

Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. Picking through the carnage, ex-special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie helps a dying woman who passes on a cryptic message: He did it. You have to tell someone.

When a corpse is found bearing the gruesome signature of a serial killer dormant for twenty-five years, Ziba is pulled into the hunt for the perpetrator. As the body count rises it becomes clear he’s on a new spree. But what’s brought the London Lacerator back after such a long hiatus? And does his sudden return have anything to do with the woman on the train?

Ziba scrambles to profile the killer in the hope of predicting his next move. But time is running out. And the closer she gets to uncovering his identity, the closer he gets to destroying hers.]]> 349 Victoria Selman 1503960064 Christopher 2 3.79 2019 Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie, #1)

author: Victoria Selman
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2019/01/06
date added: 2021/11/19
shelves: amazon, kindle-first, 2019, fiction, mystery, gaslighting, serial-killer, women-must-have-a-man
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)]]> 2373 528 Jeffery Deaver 0451188454 Christopher 4 4.20 1997

author: Jeffery Deaver
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 2021/11/15
date added: 2021/11/15
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]]> <![CDATA[A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)]]> 51080382 The first book of the Scholomance trilogy is the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.

I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.

Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans.

I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world.

At least, that’s what the world expects. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that’s crawled out of the drains. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. The school certainly does.

But the Scholomance isn’t getting what it wants from me. And neither is Orion Lake. I may not be anyone’s idea of the shining hero, but I’m going to make it out of this place alive, and I’m not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either.

Although I’m giving serious consideration to just one.]]> 338 Naomi Novik Christopher 4 2021, fiction, magic 4.28 2020 A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

author: Naomi Novik
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2021/08/16
date added: 2021/11/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1)]]> 6043781 The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher.
For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf.

Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world - for good, or for evil.

As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all - and the Witcher never accepts defeat.

The Witcher returns in this sequel to The Last Wish, as the inhabitants of his world become embroiled in a state of total war.]]> 398 Andrzej Sapkowski Christopher 4 2021, fantasy, fiction, magic 4.05 1994 Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1)

author: Andrzej Sapkowski
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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date added: 2021/11/13
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]]> <![CDATA[The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh, #12)]]> 443291
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne—a museum dedicated to the interwar years, with a room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time—when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of the fellow trustees and the Dupayne's devoted staff. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the murderer has been inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room—and is preparing to kill again—Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer.]]> 415 P.D. James 1400076099 Christopher 0 did-not-finish 3.82 2003 The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh, #12)

author: P.D. James
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Stiletto (The Checquy Files, #2)]]> 25695756
When secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome powers—and the bureaucratic finesse—to get the job done. Facing her greatest challenge yet, Rook Myfanwy Thomas must broker a deal between two bitter adversaries:

The Checquy—the centuries-old covert British organization that protects society from supernatural
threats, and…
The Grafters—a centuries-old supernatural threat.

But as bizarre attacks sweep London, threatening to sabotage negotiations, old hatreds flare. Surrounded by spies, only the Rook and two women, who absolutely hate each other, can seek out the culprits before they trigger a devastating otherworldly war.

STILETTO is a novel of preternatural diplomacy, paranoia, and snide remarks.]]> 583 Daniel O'Malley 0316228044 Christopher 3 4.10 2016 Stiletto (The Checquy Files, #2)

author: Daniel O'Malley
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2021/09/04
date added: 2021/09/04
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]]> 84K 35511975
What if any crime could be committed without punishment, so long as you could afford to pay the fee assigned to that crime?

Theo works in the Criminal Audit Office. He assesses each crime that crosses his desk and makes sure the correct debt to society is paid in full.

But when Theo's ex-lover Dani is killed, it's different. This is one death he can't let become merely an entry on a balance sheet.

Because when the richest in the world are getting away with murder, sometimes the numbers just don't add up.]]> 480 Claire North 0356507378 Christopher 0 3.18 2018 84K

author: Claire North
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.18
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/08/21
shelves: _signed, fiction, science-fiction, to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Wandering Inn (The Wandering Inn, #1)]]> 41033158
So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.

It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.

In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn.

She’s an [Innkeeper].]]> 1235 Pirateaba Christopher 0 to-read 4.25 2018 The Wandering Inn (The Wandering Inn, #1)

The Wandering Inn (The Wandering Inn, #1)

author: Pirateaba
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/08/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Consequence of Darkness: A Culinary Fantasy of Spirits, Pie, and Tex-Mex (Love & War, Tx Book 2)]]> 45724300
On the other side of town, self-proclaimed fox spirit Satsuko is afraid of Mitsuo's new life direction. Frustrated by his choices and worried for their future, Satsuko will do whatever it takes to protect Mitsuo from himself, even if it means playing dirty.

But when Satsuko’s meddling prevents the sun from rising over Love & War, Gracey must make a choice: to recover the sun and save her town, or give Mitsuo a chance to discover who he really is.

Set against the backdrop of the west Texas Chihuahuan desert, A Consequence of Darkness is the second book in the light fantasy series, Love & War, Tx.
]]> 483 Amber Fisher Christopher 0 to-read 0.0 2019 A Consequence of Darkness: A Culinary Fantasy of Spirits, Pie, and Tex-Mex (Love & War, Tx Book 2)

A Consequence of Darkness: A Culinary Fantasy of Spirits, Pie, and Tex-Mex (Love & War, Tx Book 2)

author: Amber Fisher
name: Christopher
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/08/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1) 38633526
Our life is brief . . .

While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin.

As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a remote village and use her gold to enter the Institute of Special Technologies. Though she does not want to go to this unknown town or school, she also feels it’s the only place she should be. Against her mother’s wishes, Sasha leaves behind all that is familiar and begins her education.

As she quickly discovers, the institute’s "special technologies" are unlike anything she has ever encountered. The books are impossible to read, the lessons obscure to the point of maddening, and the work refuses memorization. Using terror and coercion to keep the students in line, the school does not punish them for their transgressions and failures; instead, their families pay a terrible price. Yet despite her fear, Sasha undergoes changes that defy the dictates of matter and time; experiences which are nothing she has ever dreamed of . . . and suddenly all she could ever want.

A complex blend of adventure, magic, science, and philosophy that probes the mysteries of existence, filtered through a distinct Russian sensibility, this astonishing work of speculative fiction—brilliantly translated by Julia Meitov Hersey—is reminiscent of modern classics such as Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, Max Barry’s Lexicon, and Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale, but will transport them to a place far beyond those fantastical worlds.]]> 408 Marina Dyachenko 0062694596 Christopher 0 to-read 4.00 2007 Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

author: Marina Dyachenko
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2007
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/08/15
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1 35500624 43 Tom King Christopher 4 2017, graphic-novels
What did you expect when you saw this book has Batman and Elmer Fudd in it? If you said anything other than "complete garbage, terrible jokes, and a reminder of why crossovers are terrible," you're a liar. Which is why this gets as many stars as it does. It's not that it's great. It's that it is so much better than expectations that I don't know what else to do with it.

The only things you need to know about this is that the Looney Tunes characters are humans, it's a noir story, and it's way better than it has any right to be.

But now you've read this and your expectations are all messed up, so it's going to be terrible. Sorry.]]> 4.18 2017 Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1

author: Tom King
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2017/07/16
date added: 2021/08/15
shelves: 2017, graphic-novels
review:
There's some nonsense to how ratings work. There's a lot of nuance involved in how one book can be 5 stars and a seemingly (objectively) better book can be 4 stars. A lot of times, expectations are at the heart of these oddities, and that is certainly the case here.

What did you expect when you saw this book has Batman and Elmer Fudd in it? If you said anything other than "complete garbage, terrible jokes, and a reminder of why crossovers are terrible," you're a liar. Which is why this gets as many stars as it does. It's not that it's great. It's that it is so much better than expectations that I don't know what else to do with it.

The Silver Eyes (Five Nights at Freddy's, #1)

author: Scott Cawthon
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2021/07/03
date added: 2021/07/03
shelves: 2021, fiction, horror
review:

]]> The Card Job: A LitRPG Heist 48637330
In the immersive game Changing Worlds, there is a galaxy of possibilities, gunfights, arena battles, intergalactic warfare, adult pleasures, and pure escapism. Hermanos Granger plays for the paper. The Change-Set a mini-game using cards akin to those introduced to him in his youth. A quest in the cards brings him back to a relationship he thought was buried, and now he has a job to do — the Card Job.

A LitRPG novella set in a pulpy space opera game world.]]> 121 Kit Falbo Christopher 0 2021 4.02 The Card Job: A LitRPG Heist

author: Kit Falbo
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.02
book published:
rating: 0
read at: 2021/06/19
date added: 2021/07/03
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> The Devil and the Dark Water 51854625 A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist.

It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Traveling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent.

But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A twice-dead leper stalks the decks. Strange symbols appear on the sails. Livestock is slaughtered.

And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel.

Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes?

With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent can solve a mystery that connects every passenger onboard. A mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board.

The breathtaking new novel from Stuart Turton, author of the The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award.]]> 463 Stuart Turton Christopher 4 3.82 2020 The Devil and the Dark Water

author: Stuart Turton
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2021/06/27
date added: 2021/07/03
shelves: 2021, _signed, fiction, mystery
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Ties That Bind]]> 52723546 COLLECTING: BLACK WIDOW (2020) 1-5]]> 112 Kelly Thompson 1302924834 Christopher 0 2021 4.18 2021

author: Kelly Thompson
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2021/07/03
date added: 2021/07/03
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> Slab City Blues 23207620 34 Anthony Ryan Christopher 0 to-read 3.74 2011

author: Anthony Ryan
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/07/03
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> The Guest List 54911607 here.

It's the wedding of the year. But someone won't survive it.

On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate the wedding of Jules Keegan and Will Slater. Will is a rising television star, handsome and charming. Jules is a smart, ambitious magazine publisher. Though the sea is a little choppy and the cell service spotty, their wedding is everything you'd expect of a young power couple: designer dress, four-tiered cake, boutique whiskey, vintage champagne. Every detail has been curated to perfection. All that's left to orchestrate is the happiness.

But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. It's not long after the cake is cut and the champagne popped that resentments and petty jealousies come out. Worse yet, the latest barometer reading shows the weather has shifted from FAIR to CHANGEABLE, and dark clouds are looming overhead.

Everyone on the island has a secret. Everyone has a motive. And someone won't leave this wedding alive...]]> 313 Lucy Foley 0062868934 Christopher 0 to-read 3.77 2020 The Guest List

author: Lucy Foley
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/06/27
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Ascend Online (Ascend Online, #1)]]> 32455483
Forced into battle, Marcus rallies the beleaguered villagers and with their help, manages to drive off the invading creatures. With the village in ruins and their supplies spoiled, the survivors desperately turn to Marcus for help in rebuilding the village.

Realizing that this game is nothing like he's ever played before, Marcus is swept up into a whirlwind of adventure as he struggles to defend his new home, quickly finding that marauding goblins are the least of his problems.]]> 641 Luke Chmilenko 0995337802 Christopher 0 4.34 2016 Ascend Online (Ascend Online, #1)

author: Luke Chmilenko
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/06/19
shelves: litrpg, kindle-unlimited, to-read
review:

]]> The Devil Whispered 57239575
Ex special-forces commander Jacobi Slate is drawn into a downward spiraling vortex of fear and doubt while investigating a brutal murder that's been committed by an old friend. As evidence mounts that someone else might be pulling strings from the shadows, Jacobi struggles to understand a developing connection to his own past, which is quickly catching up to him.

Near-future cyberpunk collides with gritty detective noir in this fast-paced thriller that shines a light on both the vast shortcomings and the noble heroics of the human condition. To unravel the mystery, Jacobi will pull on every thread while chasing leads from the squalor of the most dangerous streets to the high-tech towers of the wealthy elite on his quest to understand a truth he might not be ready to face.]]> 415 Shawn Starkweather 1736186418 Christopher 0 3.85 The Devil Whispered

author: Shawn Starkweather
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.85
book published:
rating: 0
read at: 2021/03/14
date added: 2021/03/14
shelves: cyberpunk, fiction, free-copy, mystery, noir, 2021
review:

]]> The Gray Man (Gray Man, #1) 6547865 Courtland Gentry is a good man. But he’s a great assassin.

To those who lurk in the shadows, he’s known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target. Always.

But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness.

But Court Gentry is going to prove that, for him, there’s no gray area between killing for a living and killing to stay alive…]]> 456 Mark Greaney Christopher 4 2021, fiction 4.12 2009 The Gray Man (Gray Man, #1)

author: Mark Greaney
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2021/03/13
date added: 2021/03/14
shelves: 2021, fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: The Dark Design #1]]> 34237524 44 Howard Mackie Christopher 3 2015, graphic-novels, fiction
.. or Part 1 was so stupid my standards have fallen off a cliff. ]]> 3.33 1994 Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: The Dark Design #1

Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: The Dark Design #1

author: Howard Mackie
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1994
rating: 3
read at: 2015/12/12
date added: 2021/02/23
shelves: 2015, graphic-novels, fiction
review:
This is way way better than Part 1 (Heart of Darkness) that was released 3 years earlier. The art is good and doesn't look like they just grabbed some random artist for a spin-off. The story actually has Wolverine and Punisher killing large groups of minions. It's a pretty good time.

.. or Part 1 was so stupid my standards have fallen off a cliff.
]]> <![CDATA[Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)]]> 42036538
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.

Of course, some things are better left dead.]]> 448 Tamsyn Muir 1250313198 Christopher 4 2021, fantasy, fiction, magic 4.19 2019 Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

author: Tamsyn Muir
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2021/02/14
date added: 2021/02/14
shelves: 2021, fantasy, fiction, magic
review:

]]> <![CDATA[No Police Like Holmes: Introducing Sebastian McCabe (Sebastian McCabe-Jeff Cody, #1)]]> 12677673 242 Dan Andriacco 178092206X Christopher 0 3.67 2011

No Police Like Holmes: Introducing Sebastian McCabe (Sebastian McCabe-Jeff Cody, #1)

author: Dan Andriacco
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2021/01/23
shelves: to-read, fiction, mystery, hoopla
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 21 [Tenkuu Shinpan 21] (High-Rise Invasion, #21)]]> 44657656 192 Tsuina Miura 4065166632 Christopher 0 2021 3.53 2019

天空侵犯 21 [Tenkuu Shinpan 21] (High-Rise Invasion, #21)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 20 [Tenkuu Shinpan 20] (High-Rise Invasion, #20)]]> 43395342

理火と十王の直接対决は、激闘の末、理火の胜利で终わるかに思われたが、十王が人质を盾にしたため胶着。しかし、人质を犠牲にしてでも十王にトドメを刺さなければ、再び彼を野放しにすることに…。「一人の命」と「复数の命」…いま选択すべきは━━！！！闭闭> 192 Tsuina Miura 4065148715 Christopher 0 2021 3.75 2019 天空侵犯 20 [Tenkuu Shinpan 20] (High-Rise Invasion, #20)

天空侵犯 20 [Tenkuu Shinpan 20] (High-Rise Invasion, #20)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 19 [Tenkuu Shinpan 19] (High-Rise Invasion, #19)]]> 42140203 192 Tsuina Miura 4065138701 Christopher 0 2021 3.92 2019

天空侵犯 19 [Tenkuu Shinpan 19] (High-Rise Invasion, #19)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 18 [Tenkuu Shinpan 18] (High-Rise Invasion, #18)]]> 40726968 192 Tsuina Miura 4065126010 Christopher 0 2021 3.81 2018

天空侵犯 18 [Tenkuu Shinpan 18] (High-Rise Invasion, #18)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 17 [Tenkuu Shinpan 17] (High-Rise Invasion, #17)]]> 39924455 192 Tsuina Miura 4065117879 Christopher 0 2021 4.06 2018

天空侵犯 17 [Tenkuu Shinpan 17] (High-Rise Invasion, #17)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 16 [Tenkuu Shinpan 16] (High-Rise Invasion, #16)]]> 39904942 192 Tsuina Miura 4065112400 Christopher 0 2021 3.99 2018

天空侵犯 16 [Tenkuu Shinpan 16] (High-Rise Invasion, #16)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 15 [Tenkuu Shinpan 15] (High-Rise Invasion, #15)]]> 39900578 192 Tsuina Miura 4065107261 Christopher 0 2021 3.93 2018

天空侵犯 15 [Tenkuu Shinpan 15] (High-Rise Invasion, #15)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 14 [Tenkuu Shinpan 14] (High-Rise Invasion, #14)]]> 36099542 192 Tsuina Miura 4065102626 Christopher 0 2021 4.03 2017

天空侵犯 14 [Tenkuu Shinpan 14] (High-Rise Invasion, #14)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 13 [Tenkuu Shinpan 13] (High-Rise Invasion, #13)]]> 36099535
遊理たちの前に現れた新たな仮面、「羽織仮面」! 彼の「傍受する能力」によって得た情報によると、相川に理火と遊理が兄妹だとバレてしまったらしい…。それにより、理火の人質としての価値がさらに高まり、救出作戦にも暗雲が!! もはや、“理火救出”に待ったなし!!]]> 192 Tsuina Miura 4065100283 Christopher 0 2021 3.98 2017 天空侵犯 13 [Tenkuu Shinpan 13] (High-Rise Invasion, #13)

天空侵犯 13 [Tenkuu Shinpan 13] (High-Rise Invasion, #13)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 12 [Tenkuu Shinpan 12] (High-Rise Invasion, #12)]]> 35160392 195 Tsuina Miura Christopher 0 2021 4.09 2017

天空侵犯 12 [Tenkuu Shinpan 12] (High-Rise Invasion, #12)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 11 [Tenkuu Shinpan 11] (High-Rise Invasion, #11)]]> 35171279
「ハイバネーション」の危機から無事脱したスナイパー仮面。だが、彼を救出した九遠の体調に異変が━━!? そして、相川の人質となった理火も、いまだ目覚めず…。しかし、「戦い」の時は、刻一刻と近づいていた!!]]> 208 Tsuina Miura 4063931374 Christopher 0 2021 3.97 2017 天空侵犯 11 [Tenkuu Shinpan 11] (High-Rise Invasion, #11)

天空侵犯 11 [Tenkuu Shinpan 11] (High-Rise Invasion, #11)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 10 [Tenkuu Shinpan 10] (High-Rise Invasion, #10)]]> 33000431
「欠陥のある天使」を排除するプログラム…「ハイバネーション」の危険性を抱えるスナイパー仮面。自分が意识丧失状态になる前に、游理に伝えるべきことがあるという彼は、游理を呼び出す。そして、スナイパーが待つ部屋に恐る恐る入った游理に投げかけられたのは、予想外の言叶━━!!闭闭> 192 Tsuina Miura 4063930734 Christopher 0 2021 3.94 2016 天空侵犯 10 [Tenkuu Shinpan 10] (High-Rise Invasion, #10)

天空侵犯 10 [Tenkuu Shinpan 10] (High-Rise Invasion, #10)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 9 [Tenkuu Shinpan 9] (High-Rise Invasion, #9)]]> 32796295
拉致され人質となった理火は、それを指図した張本人「アノカタ」…相川守と対面! 「優秀な人間だけが生き、劣った人間は死ぬべき」という思想のもと、完全なる神を目指す相川は、理火への協力を求めるのだが…。]]> 192 Tsuina Miura 4063774996 Christopher 0 2021 3.96 2016 天空侵犯 9 [Tenkuu Shinpan 9] (High-Rise Invasion, #9)

天空侵犯 9 [Tenkuu Shinpan 9] (High-Rise Invasion, #9)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 8 [Tenkuu Shinpan 8] (High-Rise Invasion, #8)]]> 30373017 192 Tsuina Miura Christopher 0 2021 3.98 2016

天空侵犯 8 [Tenkuu Shinpan 8] (High-Rise Invasion, #8)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 7 [Tenkuu Shinpan 7] (High-Rise Invasion, #7)]]> 29634200
ニセちゃんの意識が、完全に仮面に支配されちゃった! でも、諦めない! 絶対に私がニセちゃんを助ける! ゆり、決意!! 一方、吉田の待つ「池袋」ビルを目指していた理火一行の前に、敵襲来!! まわりは見えざる敵! 敵!! 敵!!! 生き残れ━━、“お兄ちゃんチーム”!]]> 192 Tsuina Miura 4063774228 Christopher 0 2021 3.93 2016 天空侵犯 7 [Tenkuu Shinpan 7] (High-Rise Invasion, #7)

天空侵犯 7 [Tenkuu Shinpan 7] (High-Rise Invasion, #7)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 6 [Tenkuu Shinpan 6] (High-Rise Invasion, #6)]]> 27834026 192 Tsuina Miura 4063773493 Christopher 0 2021 3.98 2015

天空侵犯 6 [Tenkuu Shinpan 6] (High-Rise Invasion, #6)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 5 [Tenkuu Shinpan 5] (High-Rise Invasion, #5)]]> 27834005 192 Tsuina Miura 4063772926 Christopher 0 2021 4.00 2015

天空侵犯 5 [Tenkuu Shinpan 5] (High-Rise Invasion, #5)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
review:

]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 4 [Tenkuu Shinpan 4] (High-Rise Invasion, #4)]]> 27834002
この領域(セカイ)は、「神」を誕生(うみ)出す機関!! 仮面を被りし者は「天使」となり、人間を「神」に近づけなくてはならない! 仮面殺人鬼=「天使」!? 不条理な高層ビル領域の謎が解き明かされていく!!]]> 208 Tsuina Miura 4063771903 Christopher 0 2021 4.04 2015 天空侵犯 4 [Tenkuu Shinpan 4] (High-Rise Invasion, #4)

天空侵犯 4 [Tenkuu Shinpan 4] (High-Rise Invasion, #4)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2021/01/11
date added: 2021/01/11
shelves: 2021
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La seule fa?on de se déplacer et d’éviter les assaillants est d’emprunter les ponts qui relient les toits des immeubles d’une ville qui ne ressemble pourtant pas à Tokyo. Qui sont ces hommes masqués qui semblent en vouloir à sa vie ? Où se trouve son frère ? Comment sortir de ce monde affreux…!?]]> 192 Tsuina Miura 4063771113 Christopher 0 2021 4.03 2015 天空侵犯 3 [Tenkuu Shinpan 3] (High-Rise Invasion, #3)

天空侵犯 3 [Tenkuu Shinpan 3] (High-Rise Invasion, #3)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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天空侵犯 2 [Tenkuu Shinpan 2] (High-Rise Invasion, #2)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[天空侵犯 1 [Tenkuu Shinpan 1] (High-Rise Invasion, #1)]]> 27833946
「私は学校にいたはずなのに‥」女子高生?ゆりが、いつの間にかいた場所は、超高層ビルの屋上! 目の前では、仮面をかぶった男が、斧で人を殺していた。どうやらこれは、夢や幻ではなく「現実」! 仮面の男に追われながら、出口を探してビル内を逃げるゆりが目にしたのは「地上に降りる事はできない」と書かれた看板。なんかムカついてきた! こんなふざけた世界で死んでたまるものかっ!! ゆりのサバイバルが始まる!]]> 192 Tsuina Miura 4063769798 Christopher 0 2021 3.73 2014 天空侵犯 1 [Tenkuu Shinpan 1] (High-Rise Invasion, #1)

天空侵犯 1 [Tenkuu Shinpan 1] (High-Rise Invasion, #1)

author: Tsuina Miura
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[神さまの言うとおり弐 1 [Kami-sama no Iu toori Ni 1] (As the Gods Will: The Second Series, #1)]]> 20872864 192 Muneyuki Kaneshiro 4063848531 Christopher 0 2021 3.86 2013

神さまの言うとおり弐 1 [Kami-sama no Iu toori Ni 1] (As the Gods Will: The Second Series, #1)

author: Muneyuki Kaneshiro
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/01/08
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]]> <![CDATA[神さまの言うとおり 5 [Kamisama no Iutoori 5]]]> 19312728 192 Muneyuki Kaneshiro 4063847926 Christopher 0 2021 3.51 2012

author: Muneyuki Kaneshiro
name: Christopher
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/01/08
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