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Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver My rating: 4 of 5 stars Nobody writes a ghost story like a Brit. Dark Matter is a slow-building ghost story in the perfect setting for such a thing, the frozen wasteland of the Arctic during that time when there is no sunlight. It has been a long, long time…
Fire and Ash by Jonathan Maberry My rating: 3 of 5 stars I can’t remember the last time I read through an entire series so fast. All four books in just about two months, with a couple of other books thrown in. That’s pretty fast for me. Despite that, as I’ve said with the previous…
Stone Thread Publishing has my novella Inheritance up for pre-order on the Smashwords site. You can reserve your copy right here. It will be available through Amazon’s Kindle on the April 1 release date. Also, issues between Stone Thread and Apple have been resolved, so it will be available in that format, too. But I could…
Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry My rating: 3 of 5 stars Benny, Benny, Benny. How many times will you find yourself facing impossible odds only to be miraculously rescued by some stranger who steps out of nowhere? How many times will you or Nix mention jets and make me mentally sing, “B-B-Benny and the…
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m really torn on this one. On the one hand, the writing is absolutely amazing for a 13 to 15-year-old girl. Her vocabulary, syntax, and insight is incredible. Most modern American teenagers would be put to shame…
Dust and Decay by Jonathan Maberry My rating: 3 of 5 stars I didn’t love Rot & Ruin, but I liked it well enough to find out what happened next. I don’t regret continuing with the series. I went through this one pretty quick, so obviously it was a decent read. My issues with this…
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck My rating: 4 of 5 stars While the story of In Dubious Battle is pretty good, I found the book most interesting as a reflection of where Steinbeck was in his career when he wrote this novel. He seemed to have found a niche as an author of populist…
It’s become something of a tradition for me to wrap up a year writing about the books I read during the past 12 months. So, here’s the best and worst of the 30 titles I read in 2013*. Let’s start with the worst. The good news is there was nothing so bad that I gave…
When you bother to speak to us these days, one of your favorite expressions is, “You don’t understand me.” You’re right about that. Fathers don’t understand teenage girls. We were never teenage girls ourselves, but that’s only part of the problem. You see, fathers are men, and while it’s usually bad to make generalizations about…
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry My rating: 3 of 5 stars This has been a pretty popular book amongst my male students at the high school, and Jonathan Maberry is an acquaintance, so I figured it was time I give it a read. It’s a very enjoyable horror/adventure book with a good message about…
Steven E. Wedel 