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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...

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...

Literally Calls For Bread Lines And Gas Lines. Read It Anyway. This is a book that absolutely has its own view of economics and attempts to gaslight the reader that this is the "majority" view of economics in the same way that climate alarmists trot out the "97% of scientists" bullshit. As I said in the title, Owens actively advocates for "queue based" distribution rather than "surge pricing" - what she calls "gouging" - in both normal and extreme circumstances. Yes, while not using this exact example, she actively says that she would rather you wait in a miles long line for a crumb of bread that you might not ever get (ask any former Soviet citizen) rather than allow a business to "gouge" its customers and make "too much" profit. This is a position that some will embrace just as much as Owens does... and others will want to defenestrate the book over.

But her...

Scooby Doo x National Treasure x Tomb Raider In Island Hopping Caribbean Adventure. With Pirates. This is a really fun tale that keeps you on the edge of your seat thinking that one event is going to happen, particularly at one point in the tale, and... well... you'll have to read the book to see if it actually does or not. ;)

The action is tight and intense, whether it be as spectacular as a Laura Croft/ ...

Romance From A Dude's Perspective, Dirty Dancing Style. I was a (small) kid when Dirty Dancing came out in the late 80s. I remember finding it on VHS at my friend's house (his grandmother's house, where he frequently lived in this era), watching it as a pre-teen... and my Southern Baptist parents being absolutely *shocked* by it, for likely obvious reasons for anyone who has ever seen the movie.

For those that love that movie, this is not even that arguably the singular best tale I've seen since that takes you right back to that time and era - from a man who apparently lived it himself. This is no Baby focused story, as...

Ideological Bias Leaves Hint Of Bitter Aftertaste, But Narrative Does Return To Form To Save Overall Taste And Complexity. This is a book that is exactly what it says it is - a 500 ish year history of the death and destruction caused by the hurricanes and similar storms that have affected the land now known as America. Beginning from Columbus' sailings and going through the 2017 Hurricane Season, we get a lot of blow by blow stories of some of the most legendary hurricanes in that period... and a lot of storms even those generally familiar with hurricane history may not be as familiar with. We also get a lot of details about each storm that in some cases even those generally familiar with that specific storm may not have been aware of. So yes, in that the tales of strong hurricanes tend to be somewhat similar, this book does in fact get a touch repetitive in overall feel... *specifically because*...