(Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Following the massive loss of life of WW2, women helped the war effort by being artificially inseminated. With the biological need for sex eliminated, it started to be considered unclean and incestuous, though people still marry to raise children and people vent their romantic feelings on commercialized romantic cartoon characters. As …
Ridley Kane is a spy for the CIA who is tasked with entering areas secretly that no one else can and doing whatever is necessary to eliminate targets. There are parts of the world that are the most dangerous, and one of those is the area where Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan meet, where violence is …
On Prospera, a futuristic island, Proctor is a Ferryman, a man whose job it is to take inhabitants at the end of their 120 year lifespan, to the ferry which takes then to another island for reiteration. It's a mystery what that is exactly. Today, Proctor has been called to the home of his adoptive …
When they were kids, obedient Blythe and bad boy Tucker became best friends when they got revenge on their babysitter by throwing a rock through her car window. It's an act that forges an unbreakable bond, but recent events have them pretending to keep their distance. Until friend Gabrielle starts to act weird and the …
Continue reading Someone Is Always Watching by Kelley Armstrong
When Vega, daughter of the last astronomer, sees the twin stars on the horizon, she knows that it's the sign several generations have been waiting for. She leaves the safety of the valley and the only home she's ever known to go in search of someone known as The Architect. But she has to hide …
In the 1830's, Afong Moy was the first Chinese woman to set foot on American soil. She made money as a curiosity, exhibited like a carnival attraction, and at some point seemed to disappear from historical records. In this book, Jamie Ford takes this historical figure as his starting point and mixes in the notion …
Continue reading The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
We Spread is the third novel from the author, whose name may be familiar from I'm Thinking Of Ending Things, which was adapted by Netflix, and Foe, which is also being made into a film. His books explore things like existential dread and ideas about the human condition which get under our skin and keep …
Set in the near future, when a huge solar storm knocks out the worlds power grids and technology, two adult siblings face the problem with very different perspectives. Aubrey, a woman with a dead beat ex who left her to raise his teen from a previous relationship, stays put and finds community, while her brother, …
Val, a linguist who specializes in dead languages, is processing the recent loss of her twin and living with crippling anxiety, when a girl is found frozen in ice near where her brother died in the Arctic. The girl was thawed out alive, and Val is asked to come and try to figure out what …
Ines is running from her past and her bad decisions when a kind hearted teacher helps her get into the prestigious and mysterious Catherine House. It's a university that's highly selective, where students enter and have no contact with the outside world (no phone calls, no tv, no movies, no music, no personal effects, no …
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