Book: w0rldtr33

 Book: W0rldtr33

Author: James Tynion

Pages: 136

This is my 136th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

In 1999, Gabriel and his friends discovered the Undernet-a secret architecture to the internet.  They charted their exploration on a message board called W0rldtr33.  Then they lost control.  Someone brok into W0roldtr33- someone who welcomed the violent hold the Undernet had on them.  At great personal cost, Gabriel and the others thought they sealed the Undernet away for good.  They were wrong.  And now the whole world will know the meaning of PH34R.

I am making my way through James Tynion's graphic novels.  He writes some pretty twisted stories but I finish one of his series and search for another.  Looking forward to seeing where this one goes.

Stars: 4 

Book: The Night She Disappeared

 Book: The Night She Disappeared

Author: Lisa Jewell

Pages: 416

This is my 235th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend.  One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate.  Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite place for long walks and it's on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads "Dig Here"  Could this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple?  And what exactly is buried in this huanted ground?

This was a pretty good book.  I like Lisa Jewell books - always trying to figure out where she is going with a story.  Keeps me guessing.  The story flowed well and I liked a lot of the characters.  This was a good start to a spooky month.

Stars: 4

Book: Hollow Bones

 Book: Hollow Bones

Author: Jodi Piccoult

Pages: 464

This is my 234th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only 2 months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home.  Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn't have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.  Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics and airplane crashes.  She and her husabnd, Jesse - a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis - have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world.  But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.  Moving between past and present, this book is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect outselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

Started out interesting but quickly became too many things.  Very political.

Stars: 2

Book: The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

 Book: The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan

Author: MH Foster

Pages: 223

This is my 234th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Galornus Prime was the Demon Overlod.  He had defeated the Hero and done everything worth doing - some of it more than once.  His retirement plan was simple: get a goat, farm quietly in the small town of Lower Middleton, and avoid accidentally conquering anything.  The plan didn't include soul-crushing town halls, after-school combat lessons with children, and an undergarment-based warwith the rose-growing widow next door.  When corrupt officials and greedy merchants threaten his infuriatingly loveable neighbrs, Galornus faces a new kind of challenge: saving the village without revealing he is the monster parents invoke to make children eat their vegetables.

I wanted to like this book.  I looked it up on Amazon before I bought it because it looks cute and humerous and thought it would be a fun read.  What I should have done is read the Goodreads reviews.  Once I started to read this book, I could not quite put my finger on the choppy and clunky writing.  Found out that the author used AI to write this.  Ugh - WHY.  So lazy.

Stars: 2

Book: Becoming the Boogeyman

 Book: Becoming The Boogeyman

Author: Richard Chizmar

Pages: 464

This is my 233rd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Back in the summer of 1988, a young Richard Chizmar was catapulted into the center of a living nightmare as the serial killer Joshua Gallaher - dubbed by the media as "The Boogeyman" stalked his tranquil Maryland town.  A lot has changed in the intervening years.  These days, Chizmar enjoys a certain level of celebrity and notoriety himself, being the only person that an incarcerated Josh Gallagher will speak to on or off the record.  Chizmar likes to believe that he's doing the world a public service by visiting Gallagher in prison, as there are plenty of other nameless victims out there who Gallagher might finally admit to killing and bring closure to grieving loved ones, and a dark rhythm and routine begin to take hold.  But Chizmar eventually finds there's a price to be paid for dancing with the devil, when a masked figure with all the hallmarks of Gallagher's reign of terror from 30 years ago now leaves a horrifying calling card in front of Chizmar's home, and it's clear there's a new player on the board in the ongoing game that the Boogeyman controls.  

This was a great second book in the Boogeyman trilogy.  Well written and a nice follow up ot the first book.  Now years in the future when Richard has a grown family, his relationship with the killer starts to affect him personally.  Even though this story is not based on true events in the author's home town, he does a great job mixing real people with a fictious killer.

Stars: 4 

Book: Something Is Killing The Children Omnibus 2

 Book: Something Is Killing The Children Omnibus 2

Author: James Tynion

Pages: 512

This is my 232nd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Erica Slaughter has broken ranks with the House of Slaughter- and now she's paying the price. As she travels the backroads of America to hunt terrifying new monsters, she must also stay ahead of the deadly agents sent to eliminate her.  But the further she gets from Archer's Peak, the more her shadowed past begins to catch up with her. 

stars: 4 

Book: Edison's Alley

 Book: Edison's Alley

Author: Neal Shusterman

Pages: 256

This is my 231st read for the year

What Amazon Says:

14 year old Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric Inventor Nikola Tesla.  They are pieces of Tesla's Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe.  Some components of the contraption are still missing, but the objects themselves seem to be leading Nick and his friends to their current owners.  However, members of the Accelerati, a menacing secret society of physicist, are on the hunt too, and their brazen leader, Dr. Alan Jorgenson, will stop at nothing to foil Nick and steal the objects.  It takes a dangerous build-up of electromagnetic energy in the atmosphere to reverse everyone's fortunes - and lead Nick to his destiny.

This is a second book in the trilogy and it was a pretty good follow up.  These are yound adult books, but I still enjoyed it.  I will be anxious to see how the author wraps it up.

Stars: 4