Regular Guy Book Reviews

Review: <em>The Gone World</em> by Tom Sweterlitsch

The Gone World is brilliant: part noir murder mystery, part alternate history, part here-comes-the-apocalypse, and part thriller. It’s unique, mind-bending…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Sleeping Giants</em> by Sylvain Neuvel

Sleeping Giants is a great science fiction thriller/mystery with a fun hook: a girl biking through a forest falls in…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Legends & Lattes</em> by Travis Baldree

This book sells itself as “high fantasy and low stakes” and delivers on both counts. There’s all manner of creatures…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Dr. No</em> by Percival Everett

Dr. No reads like the author does not care whether anyone reads this book or not; he had fun writing…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Super Sad True Love Story</em> by Gary Shteyngart

Super Sad True Love Story is an engaging, literary love story that takes place in a near-future dystopian society where…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Lock In</em> by John Scalzi

There’s nothing like a murder mystery for exploring a strange new world, and that’s exactly what John Scalzi does in…

3 years ago

Review: <em>Shards of Earth</em> by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Shards of Earth hits everything I love about space opera. Great characters, a grand scale, interesting technology, aliens that are…

3 years ago

Review: <em>The Brief History of the Dead</em> by Kevin Brockmeier

The Brief History of the Dead is a fascinating, odd (in the best sense of the word), and deeply inventive…

3 years ago

Review: <em>The Kaiju Preservation Society</em> by John Scalzi

The Kaiju Preservation Society is ridiculously fun. It’s easy to imagine author John Scalzi grinning like a maniac as he…

3 years ago

Review: <em>11/22/63</em> by Stephen King

I’m a fan of Stephen King, and 11/22/63 is one of his best. There’s more humor than horror, and a…

3 years ago