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Michelle L

Michelle L

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Sci-Fi
-Post Apocalyptic
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I tend to read in bursts. If I find a genre or a writer that I like, I will read all of it I can find. Being of limited resources I also get most of my books from the public... more »
  • Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • member since July 5, 2008

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  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    • Rated 2 stars

    “Although I had high hopes for this, it was too Austen and not enough zombie for my tastes. I've never been a big Austen fan personally and Sense and Sensibility would be my preference if shoved between an Austen novel and a hard place. It did induce me to finally read this "classic" so I guess it served its purpose. ”

    Michelle L wrote this review Saturday, August 21, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Stranger in Paradise
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Crow is one of my favorite Parker baddies and I enjoyed his return here. I will admit that I found the one time adultery by the town's long-suffering only female cop troubling. However he Jess Stone books are tough-guy fiction an so I suppose if Stone didn't sleep with her someone other than her husband had to eventually. The "I'm a bare-chested Indian brave so sleep with me" thing didn't work for me and the idea that a professional hit-man wouldn't take money to kill a woman seemed silly, but I've never met any hit-men so maybe some do have their own "code" of ethics. ”

    Michelle L wrote this review Saturday, August 21, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Rough Weather
    • Rated 3 stars

    “The Grey Man has aways been an intriguing nemesis for Spencer so it's interesting to find out more about him here. ”

    Michelle L wrote this review Saturday, August 21, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Patient Zero
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Maybe I just have a thing for heroic characters named Joe, but Joe Ledger rocks! I can't wait till Maberry comes out with the next book The Dragon Factory in March. Of course reading about anyone who is elite, at the top of their game, in action makes my spine tingle and Ledger is all of the above. A wise-ass, jujitsu master, Baltimore PD detective turned zombie killer who is as good with his hands as he is a knife or a gun. What more can a girl ask for? A conscience? Oh he has that too? Depth of character? Check! Maberry manages to work in a strong female character as his love interest in the person of Major Grace Courtland previously of the SAS. Much needed comic relief comes from the geeky and socially inept Doctor Hu - pun intended I would assume - and MSgt Top and ”

    Michelle L wrote this review Tuesday, January 19, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Garden of Last Days
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I loved The House of Sand and Fog and this did not disappoint. Dubus has a talent for creating empathy for a wide variety of characters and putting you in their heads. I listened to this through to the end with my heart in my mouth. It is so easy to hate and write off people who have committed terrible acts, but Dubus reminds us that they have a story too. ”

    Michelle L wrote this review Wednesday, January 6, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Flashforward
    • Rated 2 stars

    “The premise was sort of vaguely interesting, that when the CERN accelerator is turned on everyone gets a short flash of their future. Of course it takes a long time for the world to figure that out and then to fix the blame on CERN. The story follows each of the physicists and what they see including one who sees -- nothing. It is later discovered that this means he has been murdered. So you have various plots with people trying to deal with the future they have seen, and the world must decide if they should attempt to recreate the experiment which caused the first flash forward.”

    Michelle L wrote this review Wednesday, January 6, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Battle of the Labyrinth
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I was worried that the series was going downhill after the last book, but this one was better. I like how Riordan works Greek mythology into the plots and I'm interested to see how he'll wrap all of this up in the final book.”

    Michelle L wrote this review Wednesday, January 6, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Tortilla Curtain
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Reading this really forced me to think about the issues illegal immigrants face from their perspective. Boyle seems to really go out of his way to have no one seem clearly good or clearly evil. In particular I found the character of Candido troubling due to the heap of bad luck that Boyle pours out on him. He's like a modern day Job without the faith. This is also interesting in retrospect since so many Mexicans are devout Catholics. ”

    Michelle L wrote this review Wednesday, January 6, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • What Was Lost
    • Rated 3 stars

    “I've never heard of a book being "long-listed" for a prize before as is mentioned in the description, but I guess that about fits the quality of this book. It's really good in parts, but overall it just isn't quite good enough. Missing cohesiveness maybe or perhaps the plot speed is uneven. The author has created what could be a heart-wrenching story ”

    Michelle L wrote this review Wednesday, September 16, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Ronin
    • Rated 2 stars

    “I went back and forth on this. I usually really like Frank Miller, but I guess this was just too weird for me, or maybe I just didn't get it. How the spirit of a ronin in the past connects with a profoundly physically disabled, but mentally gifted boy and a supercomputer in the future? I loved the style and I wanted to love the story, but it just didn't quite reach me.”

    Michelle L wrote this review Wednesday, September 16, 2009. ( reply | view 1 replies | permalink )
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