I’ve decided to kill a fan. In fact, she paid good money to charity for this chance, so I don’t feel guilty. And the planning is half the fun – for both of us. But I wanted to document the process, so I’m sharing Jenny’s story here with you all as we go along. Here’s…
Author: DremaDeoraich
In My Brother’s Name
By Wayland Smith © May 7, 2012, Blue Oranda Publishing File size: 378 KB 173 pages ASIN: B0081L54HO In My Brother’s Name starts when Gerry, an FBI agent, arrests a suspected terrorist, an arrest which sets the agent up for big-time career advancement. But before the suspect can even be tried or convicted, Gerry receives…
Cuttle
By Chelsea Britain © 2020, Bleau Press File size: 2.2 MB 246 pages ISBN-13: 978-1951796037 A contact on BlueSky recommended this book when we were chatting about climate fiction, so I started reading it without even reading the blurb. That was a mistake—but not for the reasons you might think. Cuttle is classified as Women’s…
False Idol
Book 3 in The Projectionists Series By Tobias Youngblood © 2025, Riposte Press, LLC File size: 2.1 MB 334 pages ISBN-13: 978-1959649090 In False Idol, the satisfying conclusion of the Projectionist trilogy, Ridley, Iris, and Siv face their most challenging enemies yet. There’s plenty of drama to be found in this urban fantasy, with a…
The Kite Runner
By Khaled Hosseini © 2003, Riverhead Books File size: 1.3 MB 400 pages ISBN-13: 978-1101217238 I promised to read six banned books this year. The Kite Runner is my seventh for 2025. Caution: This review contains spoilers—not of the ending, but of the story’s arc. Still, I don’t think that will diminish the book’s impact…
The Giver
By Lois Lowry © July 1, 1993, Clarion books File size: 26.5 MB 239 pages ISBN-13: 978-0547345901 I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started this book, which is my 6th banned book this year. I’d read the blurb weeks before, when I’d first gotten the book. But when I picked it up to…
Nineteen Minutes
By Jodi Picoult © March 5, 2007, Atria Books File size: 4.1 MB 468 pages ISBN-13: 978-1416538950 Caution: This review contains spoilers—not of the ending, but of the story’s arc. Still, I don’t think that will diminish the book’s impact on readers. Nineteen Minutes, which tops the list of banned books for the 2023-2024 school…
Artemis
By Andy Weir © November 14, 2017, Ballantine Books File size: 9.2 MB 335 pages ISBN-13: 978-0553448139 Jazz Bashara is a porter in the only lunar city, Artemis. She’s also a smuggler, which is a lot more profitable. But when she takes a job that seems easy and pays so much she can’t possibly say…
Looking for Alaska
By John Green © August 14, 2008 File size: 5.1 MB 227 pages ISBN-13: 978-1101434208 Looking for Alaska is a captivating tale of a junior high school boy who goes away to boarding school in search of the Great Perhaps—something to break him out of the soul-sucking boredom that is his life. Like Me and…
Memory of Water
By Emmi Itäranta © April 16, 2024, Voyager File Size: 2.6 MB 274 pages ISBN-13: 978-0062326164 Noria is a 17-year-old in the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the Chinese state of New Qian. Global warming changed everything. Fresh water is so scarce that wars are fought over who will control or even access it….