Review: Pandemic - Scott Sigler

The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious.

The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload-a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race. That harmless-looking canister has languished under thousands of feet of water for years, undisturbed and impotent…until now.

Days after the new disease is unleashed, a quarter of the human race is infected. Entire countries have fallen. And our planet's fate now rests on a small group of unlikely heroes, racing to find a cure before the enemies surrounding them can close in.

 

 

 

REVIEW

This was a good book. I feel it would have made a little more sense to me if I had read the first two installments. Which I will be putting on my TBR list. I have read two other books by this author from another series and really enjoyed them. This was no exception; I liked that this book was very fast-paced and full of action.

The characters were all interesting and made me want to keep turning the pages. I loved the group dynamic of the story and that this unlikely group was humanities only hope for finding a cure to a deadly alien disease infecting the human population.

I liked the authors' style of writing, and I think it worked well with this type of story. I was left with a few questions, that keep nagging me, but I'm hoping for another installment in this series to tie up the loose ends. Great story for anyone who enjoys a post-apocalyptic series.


4 Stars

Billie Jo

Review: Deadly Stuff Players - Flo Anthony

REVIEW

 

This was definitely a piece of fiction.   While Author Flo Anthony had some interesting twists and turns in her debut novel, it was so underdeveloped and unrealistic that it was an extremely difficult and frustrating read.   In the novel, Valerie and Rome are hired to solve a murder mystery for a wealthy client.  Valerie is supposed to be financially secure, but throughout the novel it seemed Author Anthony kept eluding that she needed money, which was confusing to me. 

 I did enjoy the not knowing aspect.  When I thought, I figured out the murderer, Author Anthony gave you just a tidbit to throw you off track. But, plots and/or thoughts were left unfinished.  At times, there was just too much going on.   I had questions, but before they were answered, the storyline changed.    One of the characters, Mr. Dumas, is extremely wealthy, and he had no problem in displaying that; however, it was unrealistic to give a large sum of money ($5,000) for insignificant and minute pieces of information.

The discrepancies and inconsistencies were so frequent that it was hard to focus on the crime investigations.  Who removes a body from a crime scene without an investigation?  Every time, the characters went somewhere names of celebrities were listed.   Although Valerie is a celebrity gossip columnist, the interaction with these celebrities sometimes did not provide any additional information, and their presence just seemed to be filler information for me.  I found myself asking – what did that have to do with the novel?  Also, every time a meal was prepared or shared, the entire menu was listed.  This became annoying to me as a reader.   On a few occasions, there was information presented when it was not previously introduced to the reader, and I had to re-read passages because it did not make sense.  

2 Stars

 

Carmela

 

 

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