Category: Book Review

Book Review: A Bottle of Lies

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban I love science books that are relevant to everyone and rely on first-hand research. This is one of those. Eban takes the story of a whistleblower working at an Indian pharmaceutical manufacturing plant and uses his narrative to lead you through …

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Book Review – The Iron King

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa One can tell by picking up the cover of this book that Iron King will involve a beautiful teen and some hot, probably supernatural boys. Imagine if someone combined Labyrinth with Midsummer Night’s Dream and added some sexy boys. If that sounds good to you, stop reading this review …

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Book Review – The Summer Before the War

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson Silly me for thinking that this book would be a lighthearted and feel-good romance in the same vein as Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. Simonson draws the time and place so well that one cannot imagine living in that time and place with anything other than a sense …

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Book Review – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman I almost quit this book in the first fifty pages because I found the main character so fussy and deeply unlikeable. She’s aggressively bright but socially awkward, reading like an autistic person. It seemed that she didn’t have any friends and didn’t want any friends and felt …

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Book Review – The Republic of Thieves

The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch The events of this novel are highly influenced by Red Seas Under Red Skies so don’t do what I did and let most of a decade pass between reading the previous one and this one. Scott Lynch doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to worldbuilding and complicated …

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