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I'm really really glad there's a sequel coming out because I don't want this to be over.
I listened to this on audio, and this book is long, magical and musical, which happened to hit so many of my buttons in a good way. Liesl/Elizabeth was not always the most likable person, and I found the story to be more predictable (particularly in the second half) than I would have liked, but it was overall a very enjoyable story.
I think there were a lot of loose ends in Wintersong, which makes me very glad there will be a second novel. I’m interested to see how Jae-Jones wraps up everyone’s storylines in the second book.
Also I got to meet JJ in person in Winston-Salem, and it was absolutely awesome. She’s a lovely human being, and if you get the chance to go to a book talk with her, I highly recommend it.
I listened to this on audio, and this book is long, magical and musical, which happened to hit so many of my buttons in a good way. Liesl/Elizabeth was not always the most likable person, and I found the story to be more predictable (particularly in the second half) than I would have liked, but it was overall a very enjoyable story.
I think there were a lot of loose ends in Wintersong, which makes me very glad there will be a second novel. I’m interested to see how Jae-Jones wraps up everyone’s storylines in the second book.
Also I got to meet JJ in person in Winston-Salem, and it was absolutely awesome. She’s a lovely human being, and if you get the chance to go to a book talk with her, I highly recommend it.
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.
And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.
Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is towin. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.
A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?
Okay, so my first thought when I started reading Ready Player One was, “Oh, this is gonna be another one of the dystopian/post-apocalyptic novels where the hero makes someone’s life a lot better.” I hadn’t heard of it before. But I figured I’d read it, since my boyfriend’s mom gave it to me for Christmas. Well, I was partially right. It’s a dystopian future of America, and the hero does make people’s lives a lot better.
However, Wade Owen Watts is not your typical hero. He is an overweight, underloved trailer park 18-year-old whose only friends and enemies (other than his aunt) are in the Oasis, and most of them only know him by his username, Parzival.
Basically this book appealed to the nerd in me – which is basically all of me, really. It made references to Star Wars, Star Trek ( THEY SPOKE KLINGON. THE ONLY PERSON I KNOW WHO CAN SPEAK KLINGON IS MY FATHER), Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, D&D and awesome 80’s music. The references throughout were heavenly. The only other place that I might find as many good references at once would be MAYBE a John Green fanboard. MAYBE.
Anyway, the book flowed really well, and was very enjoyable from start to finish. Ready Player One had some freaking AMAZING worldbuilding, not just for Earth, but for the other planets that Wade and company visited as well.
My only complaint was that sometimes the nerd references were a little too much, if you know what I mean. It felt like the characters were sometimes trying to prove to each other that they knew their stuff, even when it really wasn’t necessary. Otherwise, I loved the book, and would definitely recommend it to people that love 80’s pop culture references. It was incredibly enjoyable.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.
And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.
Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is towin. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.
A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?
Okay, so my first thought when I started reading Ready Player One was, “Oh, this is gonna be another one of the dystopian/post-apocalyptic novels where the hero makes someone’s life a lot better.” I hadn’t heard of it before. But I figured I’d read it, since my boyfriend’s mom gave it to me for Christmas. Well, I was partially right. It’s a dystopian future of America, and the hero does make people’s lives a lot better.
However, Wade Owen Watts is not your typical hero. He is an overweight, underloved trailer park 18-year-old whose only friends and enemies (other than his aunt) are in the Oasis, and most of them only know him by his username, Parzival.
Basically this book appealed to the nerd in me – which is basically all of me, really. It made references to Star Wars, Star Trek ( THEY SPOKE KLINGON. THE ONLY PERSON I KNOW WHO CAN SPEAK KLINGON IS MY FATHER), Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, D&D and awesome 80’s music. The references throughout were heavenly. The only other place that I might find as many good references at once would be MAYBE a John Green fanboard. MAYBE.
Anyway, the book flowed really well, and was very enjoyable from start to finish. Ready Player One had some freaking AMAZING worldbuilding, not just for Earth, but for the other planets that Wade and company visited as well.
My only complaint was that sometimes the nerd references were a little too much, if you know what I mean. It felt like the characters were sometimes trying to prove to each other that they knew their stuff, even when it really wasn’t necessary. Otherwise, I loved the book, and would definitely recommend it to people that love 80’s pop culture references. It was incredibly enjoyable.
Gene Doucette’s Fixer was intriguing the entire way through, using time jumps to show you the Bain’s background, and it seriously puts a twist on the old war phrase “Kilroy was here” in a slightly terrifying manner.
This book was not my usual type of book, but it was up for an ARC on Netgalley, and it looked interesting, so I figured I’d try for it, and I got it! How exciting!
The summary for the book says, “What would you do if you could see into the future?
As a child, he dreamed of being a superhero. Most people never get to realize their childhood dreams, but Corrigan Bain has come close. He is a fixer. His job is to prevent accidents—to see the future and “fix” things before people get hurt. But the ability to see into the future, however limited, isn’t always so simple. Sometimes not everyone can be saved.
“Don’t let them know you can see them.”
Graduate students from a local university are dying, and former lover and FBI agent Maggie Trent is the only person who believes their deaths aren’t as accidental as they appear. But the truth can only be found in something from Corrigan Bain’s past, and he’s not interested in sharing that past, not even with Maggie.
To stop the deaths, Corrigan will have to face up to some old horrors, confront the possibility that he may be going mad, and find a way to stop a killer no one can see.
Corrigan Bain is going insane . . . or is he?
Because there’s something in the future that doesn’t want to be seen. It isn’t human. It’s got a taste for mayhem. And it is very, very angry.”
At first I was a little confused as to where Doucette was going to go with the story, but he knew what he was doing. It was an enjoyable book, earning three and a half stars from me. It was a concept that is rarely traversed, with Corrigan Bain being slightly psychic, although not really. (I won’t explain how, you’ll just have to read it! And the little bit of science Doucette threw in was actually kind of refreshing.
There are some type errors where the typeface did not match the rest of the book, some minor typos, etc, but since this was an ARC, I’m sure they will fix them. The only thing that bothered me was when the typeface changed mid-sentence, occasionally mid-word. It got really annoying, but again – I’m sure they’ll fix it before it goes out for purchase.
Corrigan Bain (What a cool name! Seriously!) has a really interesting story, one that I would love to have continued eventually, but I’d also like to learn more about why Maggie Trent kept investigating. What’s her backstory? And whatever happened to the others at the hippie commune? Not particularly important to this story, but they’d still be interesting to learn about.
I’m gonna give Fixer by Gene Doucette 4 stars, because it was really good. I have no major issues with it, but it wasn’t my favorite book in the world. I hope that you all enjoy this when it comes out officially!
This book was not my usual type of book, but it was up for an ARC on Netgalley, and it looked interesting, so I figured I’d try for it, and I got it! How exciting!
The summary for the book says, “What would you do if you could see into the future?
As a child, he dreamed of being a superhero. Most people never get to realize their childhood dreams, but Corrigan Bain has come close. He is a fixer. His job is to prevent accidents—to see the future and “fix” things before people get hurt. But the ability to see into the future, however limited, isn’t always so simple. Sometimes not everyone can be saved.
“Don’t let them know you can see them.”
Graduate students from a local university are dying, and former lover and FBI agent Maggie Trent is the only person who believes their deaths aren’t as accidental as they appear. But the truth can only be found in something from Corrigan Bain’s past, and he’s not interested in sharing that past, not even with Maggie.
To stop the deaths, Corrigan will have to face up to some old horrors, confront the possibility that he may be going mad, and find a way to stop a killer no one can see.
Corrigan Bain is going insane . . . or is he?
Because there’s something in the future that doesn’t want to be seen. It isn’t human. It’s got a taste for mayhem. And it is very, very angry.”
At first I was a little confused as to where Doucette was going to go with the story, but he knew what he was doing. It was an enjoyable book, earning three and a half stars from me. It was a concept that is rarely traversed, with Corrigan Bain being slightly psychic, although not really. (I won’t explain how, you’ll just have to read it! And the little bit of science Doucette threw in was actually kind of refreshing.
There are some type errors where the typeface did not match the rest of the book, some minor typos, etc, but since this was an ARC, I’m sure they will fix them. The only thing that bothered me was when the typeface changed mid-sentence, occasionally mid-word. It got really annoying, but again – I’m sure they’ll fix it before it goes out for purchase.
Corrigan Bain (What a cool name! Seriously!) has a really interesting story, one that I would love to have continued eventually, but I’d also like to learn more about why Maggie Trent kept investigating. What’s her backstory? And whatever happened to the others at the hippie commune? Not particularly important to this story, but they’d still be interesting to learn about.
I’m gonna give Fixer by Gene Doucette 4 stars, because it was really good. I have no major issues with it, but it wasn’t my favorite book in the world. I hope that you all enjoy this when it comes out officially!
This was a much better book than the first in the series. Mira was a significantly more interesting main character, with much greater ambitions and motivations.
My only complaint is that it felt like we were rehashing a lot of the first novel, and there wasn't more Tamsin. We're told they're BFF's, but I didn't see it on the page that much.
I look forward to the next one though.
My only complaint is that it felt like we were rehashing a lot of the first novel, and there wasn't more Tamsin. We're told they're BFF's, but I didn't see it on the page that much.
I look forward to the next one though.
People have been telling me to read this book for years. Literal years. Probably since it released in 2012, but I’ve put it off and put it off. I don’t know why I put it off, but I regret it. This book is beautiful and honest and lovely. It didn’t hurt that it was read by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He could probably read the classifieds and I’d listen to it. That’s not the main reason I enjoyed this book.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is a young adult novel that is mostly light, but gets heavy really quickly regarding racial and sexuality identity. This book took me a few chapters to get into, because at the beginning, Ari is a little bit obnoxious. Everything “sucks.” Realistically, that’s how most 15-year-olds talk, and it got a whole lot better once he met Dante.
Read my full review here!
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is a young adult novel that is mostly light, but gets heavy really quickly regarding racial and sexuality identity. This book took me a few chapters to get into, because at the beginning, Ari is a little bit obnoxious. Everything “sucks.” Realistically, that’s how most 15-year-olds talk, and it got a whole lot better once he met Dante.
Read my full review here!
