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Book Review on Dead Mech by Jake Bible. Rated at 10 out of 1 through 10. Let me set the scene for Dead Mech. The zombie apocalypse has happened in America. Humanity has coalesced in various pockets of the US, some in huge, walled city-states, others in the wasteland which is outside the city-state walls. Protecting these city-states and maintaining some kind of order in the wasteland are the Mechs. Additionally, there is technology now which fries the brain of any city-state resident as soon as he or she dies, so they don’t become a zombie. However, this tech has to be turned off to operate a mech and facilitate the mech/human interface. So, there’s the rub. What happens if a mech pilot dies before disconnecting from his mech? You get a dead mech.
On top of this very strange state of affairs, something strange is happening in the city-states. The mech pilots have to find out what is going on, and save the rest of humanity before it’s too late.

Authors: Rory Harper Book: Petrogypsies Genre:Weird Science Fiction Julia Rating: 8 Comments:  I got this book from the fine folks at Dark Star Books quite a while ago, but I’ve been on hiatus, so I’m very sorry I haven’t review it. The cover for this book is a little crazy.  It reminded me of a story [...]

Author: edited by Stephen Jones Book: The Dead That Walk Genre: Horror Julia Rating: 10 Comments: The Dead That Walk is a short story book with zombie-esque shorts by authors like Joe Hill, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Kim Newman and many many more wonderful authors. “What’s this?” you ask, “Julia actually read a book about [...]

Author: Preetham Grandhi Book: A Circle of Souls Genre: Suspense/Thriller Julia Rating: 7 Comments:  Mr. Grandhi provided me with a review copy of his debut novel, A Circle of Souls. This book involves several different characters and different points of view.  It’s about the investigation of a young girls kidnapping and subsequent murder.  An FBI [...]

Author: Pseudonymous Bosch Book: This Book Is Not Good For You Genre: Young Adult/Humorous Julia Rating: 10 Comments: I know this is a young adult book, but a friend of mine bought it for me for Christmas and it’s got a chocolate bar on the cover, so that got me reading it pretty much immediately.  [...]

Author: Jess Haines Book: Hunted By The Others Genre: Fantasy Julia Rating: 10 Comments: Hunted by the Others is Jess Haines’ debut novel.   Jess sent me a copy of her wonderful book prior to release so that I could review it here, Yay!  (She also did a little brow waggle to get me off [...]

Author: Tee Morris Podiobook: Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword Performed by: Tee Morris Main Guest Performances: LeeAnn Maybry, Dani Cutler Genre: Fantasy and Historical Fiction Julia Rating: 10 Comments: Tee Morris created a fantastic character with Billibub Baddings – a dwarf detective living in the 1920s. This isn’t just any dwarf [...]

Hi Everyone, I know I’ve not been posting much.  I’m sorry!!!  More posts are coming, I promise.  In fact, I’m spending the whole morning preparing for tomorrow’s post. I am going to be involved in The Other Side of the Leaf bookworm carnival. The Other Side of the Leaf is a great blog that has [...]

Author:Mary E. Pearson Book: The Adoration of Jenna Fox Genre: Sci Fi Julia Rating: 10 Comments: I found The Adoration of Jenna Fox at Becky’s Book Review Blog and fell in love with the idea of it. However, I totally thought it was just about a girl who lost her memory and is finding herself. [...]

Author: RJ Toftness Book: Unlock The Mystery To Math Genre: Nonfiction Julia Rating: 10 Comments: This book isn’t my usual. I’m normally a fiction girl, but when the author – RJ Toftness – asked me to review it, I couldn’t refuse. Why? Because I’m terrible at math. I haven’t liked math since I was a [...]