Thursday, February 28, 2013

The Alienist

By Caleb Carr

This book was a disappointment. It had all the elements of a great historical fiction - interesting historical characters woven into the story, a grimm serial murder and a team of people just discovering the art of criminal profiling and forensics - but somehow I found it fairly boring.

Book 9

Enclave

Book 2: Outpost

By Ann Aguirre

A young adult series about a post-apocalyptic earth where groups of humans have been forced to live underground to escape a virus and the mutants. The mutants are zombie like but even through book number two we don't know a lot about them except that they are fearsome, brutal and the enemy of the main characters in the book (all humans).

The writing is a bit choppy for me at times, although the story was compelling enough to read both books in the series. While there are a lot of interesting components to the books they are missing some level of depth  to me which left me feeling a little disconnected form the story and characters.

Books 7 - 8

Ender's Shadow

By Orson Scott Card

Review pending book club discussion about Ender's Shadow.

Book 4 - 6