Review: Stephenie Meyer’s The Host

The Host by Stephenie Meyer and narrated by Kate Reading Sci-Fi, Published 2008 Read Oct 2010, Unabridged Audio, 21 hrs Challenges: RIP V, Audio Book, YA Shelf Life: 2 years 4 months, Purchased HB 5/1/08 Verdict: 4.5/5 Book Blurb: Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away.  Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy that [...]

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From Mel’s Shelves…Jim Butcher’s Furies of Calderon

Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera #1) by Jim Butcher, 504 pages Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Published 2005 Mel Read Oct. 7, 2008 4.5/5 From the Back Cover: For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies — elementals [...]

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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Ender’s Game (Ender #1) by Orson Scott Card Sci-Fi, Published 1985, 324 pp Mel Read Nov. 15, 2008 4/5 From the Back Cover: Once again, the Earth is under attack. Alien “buggers” are poised for a final assault. The survival of the human species depends on a military genius who can defeat the buggers. But [...]

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From the Shelves of Mel…

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher Dresden Files Series ~ Book 2 Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Published 2001 Mel Read Aug. 2008 4/5 From the back cover: Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional [...]

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From the Shelves of Mel…

The Dolphins of Pern (Dragonriders of Pern) by Anne McCaffrey Sci-Fi, Published 1994 Mel read June 2008 3.5/5 From the Cover: When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars to colonize Pern’s oceans while their human partners settles the vast continents. But [...]

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Catching Up on December’s Reads

Storm Front: Book One of the Dresden Files Jim Butcher Sci-Fi, Published 2000 3.5/5 A Virtuous Woman Kaye Gibbons Fiction, Published 1997 4/5 Stardust Neil Gaiman Sci-Fi, Published 2007 4/5

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