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Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn

Rating: 3 Stars

Genre: Paranormal

Format: mass market paperback


Kitty is a late night radio host who not only talks about the supernatural, but is the supernatural...she's a werewolf. I liked all the books in this series but found the quality not quite up to the interesting concept. In this book, Kitty is living with Ben in Pueblo, but must return to Denver where she was exiled by her old pack, because her mother is ill. Once she shows up in town, she is quickly embroiled in supernatural politics. I've read the series from the beginning, and I have to say that I think Ben is the least interesting of all the men Kitty could have ended up with. He's not bad, but he's just not very intriguing. I found myself struggling to finish, but maybe that was because I had just finished a far better book in "Ironkissed" by Patricia Briggs and just couldn't get into Kitty's head.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Rating: 5 Stars

Genre: fiction (near-future science fiction)

Format: mass market paperback


Wade Watts is a young man who has lived most of his life jacked into a virtual reality called the OASIS.  He goes to school there, hangs out with friends, and obsessively studies the puzzles hidden within the game.  These puzzles and clues promise astronomical wealth and power to any who can figure them out—and are based on their creator’s fixation with the long lost 1980s of a past America.  When Wade figures out the first clue, the race is on, and his corporate competition is not above mass murder to stop him.  


I truly enjoyed this book, but perhaps that because I grew up in the 80s and found the thousands of references fascinating and smile-provoking.   This book is nerd utopia—an honor to nerds, gaming, and the beginning of our new more connected world.  This story reminded me of a grown up “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, with kooky characters, a lovable hero, and a strange world unfolding around the reader. A world that is both familiar and strange.   When you finish this book you will be glad for the ride, but you might also have a disquieting moment wondering how much of our own future was revealed here.


Review by C.C. Moore