An amusing enough concept to get me to purchase the book, but not enough to sustain a mediocre mystery.
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Grew up with Encyclopedia Brown, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Ramona Quimby, Alvin Fernald, The Great Brain, and The Mad Scientists' Club.
Have been in a longtime relationship with Charles de Lint, Anne McCaffrey, Jasper Fforde, Charlie Huston, Christopher Moore, and Richard K. Morgan.
Lately, been seen spending quality time with Seanan McGuire, D.M. Guay, and Jaye Wells.
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Todd rated Cibola Burn: 5 stars
Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #4)
Todd rated I'm going to college---not you!: 2 stars
Todd rated Abaddon's Gate: 5 stars
Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #3)
For generations, the solar system — Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt — was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The …
Todd rated Nexus (Nexus, #1): 4 stars
Nexus (Nexus, #1) by Ramez Naam
The Nexus Trilogy is a postcyberpunk thriller novel trilogy written by American author Ramez Naam and published between 2012-2015. The …
Todd rated This Could Hurt: 3 stars
This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff
In a razor-sharp and deeply felt novel that illuminates the role of work in our lives, This Could Hurt captures …
Todd rated Caliban's War: 5 stars
Todd rated Aurora Rising: 4 stars
Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman (The Aurora Cycle, #1)
Todd reviewed Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer (An Obama Biden mystery)
"Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift …
Review of 'Hope never dies' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Todd rated Midnight Riot: 4 stars
Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London, #1)
Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign …
Todd rated The Crimes of Grindelwald: 3 stars
The Crimes of Grindelwald by J.K. Rowling (Fantastic Beasts, #2)
The powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald has been captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making …
Todd rated Volatile Bonds (Prospero's War) (Volume 4): 5 stars
Todd reviewed Firefly - Big Damn Hero by Nancy Holder (The Firefly Series, #1 of 8)
The original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss …
Review of 'Firefly - Big Damn Hero' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I really, really wanted to like this more. It was fine, but doesn't really live up to the storytelling of the original episodes or the movie. Also, the authors seemed a little too eager to prove they'd watched the episodes all the way through at least once, because they really peppered in references to them--sometimes only in passing. I'll probably still read the next book and hope it feeds my Firefly jones a little better than this one did.
I really, really wanted to like this more. It was fine, but doesn't really live up to the storytelling of the original episodes or the movie. Also, the authors seemed a little too eager to prove they'd watched the episodes all the way through at least once, because they really peppered in references to them--sometimes only in passing. I'll probably still read the next book and hope it feeds my Firefly jones a little better than this one did.
Grimspace by Ann Aguirre (Sirantha Jax, #1)
As the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace-a talent which makes …