What a crazy good book! I guess it’s probably a novella more accurately, but it’s decently long and you more than get your money’s worth! It ties into the Feed series, but you would’t have to read any of that to enjoy this.

This is the story of a small group of people at the last Comic Con before the Rising takes place. Unfortunately for them, the Rising has come to Comic Con.

Any fan of awesome things (FIREFLY! Dr. Who, Buffy, My Little Pony, etc.) and zombies will get a kick out of this book. It’s a great little zombie romp, but seeped in geek culture. I loved all the references to Firefly especially.

Okay, but are all those references just a gimmick? No way! Grant obviously has mad love for everything she references and it’s a rockin’ zombie story too. From the get go you know no one is making it out of the convention center, and yet you can’t help but hope. No one knows how the outbreak starts, but once it does the heroes step up.

These heroes are the fans themselves who do their best to survive. When that doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen, they do their best to make things better for each other in the remaining seconds, minutes, and hours they have left. The Browncoats in this story are the sort that Joss Whedon would be very proud of.

I really can’t say enough how much I enjoyed this. In a very short time I cared about all the main characters, I believed in them, and I certainly believed in the terror of being in a locked building full of the infected. Without a doubt, this is a must read.

This is as damn near as perfect and enjoyable book as I’ve found yet. Memoirs aren’t really my thing, but I guess they should be. I love to know about other people’s lives if they aren’t like me.

This book was enlightening and hilarious all at the same time. From page one I was hooked. There are a ton of things that go into living as a man that I never would have thought of before reading this. While I’m sure a lot of the issues can be pretty intense and difficult, they were presented in this book in an easy and amusing way.

I loved that it was seemingly written without taking itself too seriously. It never came across as preachy or message-y. As someone unfamiliar with a lot of the issues, this made it easier for me to get into and enjoy. Though the focus is obviously on the transitioning, it’s about so much more than that.

Probably the best thing about the book was that it left me wanting more, which is a good sign when reading someone’s life story. I have a feeling that any story this man wants to share would be enjoyable to read.

Hard to put down, easy laughs!

My first thought finishing this book was “that was enthralling and entirely f-ed up”. It was obviously much more than that, but that thought pretty much sums it up.

When two girls are killed in her home town, reporter Camille Preaker returns home to follow the story. Like many people returning home, she finds it filled with even more ghosts than she remembers. The clearest of these is her sister who died when they were both kids.

This picture perfect small town isn’t the Mayberry it wants to be. The housewives hide secrets and everyone could be a suspect in the murders. Camille doesn’t get very far in her reporting before she is swept up in family drama. Her would be perfect mother is in turns overly doting and cold and distant. Her thirteen-year-old half sister is both the sweet daughter in pigtails their mother demands and a drug taking mean girl.

This book was almost as good as Jennifer McMahon’s books, but didn’t quite have the fairy tale feeling her’s do. Instead it was like a realistic and slightly off nightmare. From start to finish you’re dragged into this world and while it’s so interesting that you don’t want to be pulled out of it, it’s also massively disturbing.

Unfortunately everything I really loved about the book is very spoilerish, so I won’t go into it. Let’s just say this book has more than a few unexpected twists and chapter after chapter just takes you further down a dark rabbit hole

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Cassel is a curse worker, which in this world isn’t that strange, but he’s a rare type of curse worker that puts him on eveyone’s most wanted list. The government wants him to work with them, the mob wants him to work for him. Cassel, just wants to date the girl of his dreams.

Holly Black is an author I always really wanted to like, but this is the first series I have actually liked by her. Each of these books has pleasantly surprised me.

This continues where White Cat left off, and even though it’s been quite a while since I read that, I had little trouble getting right into this one. Cassel is a fun and believable narrator to the story. Probably one of my favorite lead guys in a book recently. He is a well crafted teen boy, the perfect mix of sweet guy and jerk teenager.

The supporting characters feel real enough, most of the action revolves around Cassel, so you don’t have to care too much about the supporting cast, but they’re fun and just interesting when they are around.

I love this world that is so much like our own, but so very different in one way. It almost reminds me of the world Kim Harrison created in her Rachel Morgan series. It’s close enough to our world to feel familiar, but different enough to be engaging.

I’m eager to read the next book, even though the books seem to have one central mystery to them, there is enough ongoing story to make you want to read the next one. I would recommend this one to anyone looking for some fun, light reading.

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