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Classic For Reasons. Will Offend At Least Some 2020s Readers. This is one of those ultimate classic American scifi tales that holds up remarkably well overall, with several areas that Zoomers and even younger Millennials won't be able to envision as easily as older Americans, including even Xennials/ Elder Millennials.

For one, there is a direct Biblical reference in the book that refers to Acts Chapter 5 - and while the book explicitly calls out that it is a Biblical reference, a reader not familiar with that passage won't get it at all (though it *is* quickly explained in the text itself, unlike say the many allegories of more modern works such as those of Jeremy Robinson).

For another, casual offers of cigarettes. Tha...

Strong Stoner/ LGBT/ Almost Cozy Mystery (Yes, Including Both A Dog And A Cat). Straight up, this is an openly LGBT book from an openly LGBT author. Which will work for some and not for others. You do you, either way. No judgment here. Truly. Unless you read this book despite this warning and still rate it 1 or 2 stars because "it has gay people in it" or some similar bullshit. I already told you it did!

For those who don't mind/ actively want a book where there are at least as many gay (generally, not specifically just homosexual men) people as straight people and where both types are developed as fully fleshed out characters where neither is really judged for being who they are nor is th...

The Kind Of Family Everyone Wants - Even When They Claim They Don't. This series has been strong to this point, but to me, *this* is the story where the family really begins to show its true strength as a unit. The first book in this series was introducing the family via a prodigal tale, the second was team building around a common goal now that everyone was back together. *This* is the tale where everyone is having tr...

Fascinating History And Unique Narrative Structure. I have at least a few of Winchester's books on Audible, mostly because they always sound so interesting - but this was the first I read, picking it up for my morning walks specifically as my own personal celebration of America's 250th birthday. Didn't even realize at the time that it was already 13 ish yrs old - and this really doesn't come to bear at all with what he actually writes here, ending, as he does, more at the dawn of the internet age (and how it came to be) rather than the specific internet techs that came after the introduction of the public World Wide Web in 1994. (Though with some utterly fascinating stories of ...

Solid Action Based Conclusion With Less Abject Horror. This conclusion of this trilogy is both quite different than the books that came before it - while still continuing their tale - and yet also pretty damn close to what at least I expected coming out of Revenant-X. This book picks up "shortly" after that one leaves off, and as with Mass Effect 2's ending (particularly from The Arrival DLC) portending one hell of an epic final fight - also for Earth - and then Mass Effect 3 largely delivering on the sheer scale of epicness while also being quite different in many ways from the tale(s) that came before, this is again following that well known path.

What we actually get here, to be clear, is in fact quite horrific in many ways, but the tale ultimately is much more action based, with our ragtag group...

Solid Enough Vigilante Thriller Absolutely *DRIPPING* Misandry. If you like girl power thrillers where every man who doesn't kowtow to the female leads' every whim is characterized as at *best* someone to be ignored and not considered at all - with most considered to be outright predatory - well, Winstead has crafted a tale here that will be absolutely up your alley.

To be crystal clear, as a vigilante thriller *outside* of the blatant and extensive bigotry, this really is a fun and compe...

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Solid Social History. If you're looking for a technological based history about the various innovations that made and shaped nightlife over the centuries... yeah, this isn't that. Including more recent developments like specific DJ tech and world famous party locations.

But if you're looking for a more social-based history about how nightlife evolved through various areas all ...

THIS. IS. ROMANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hot DAMN I wish more romance novels had this kind of intense love on the page. Yes, there are Interstellar vibes at times - and they only make the romance that much more intense. This is true to the period in oh so many ways...

... and yet also has at least one jarring anachronism (and potentially more less jarring ones). Specifically in its criticism of era astronauts as "exclusively white men", a 2010s/ 2020s woke/ feminist phrasing not generally used in the era. Yes, there were some spora...