Audible Original Fiction by John Scalzi
This was a hysterically funny little story about an office full of aliens.
I also read recently by this author: When the Moon Hits Your Eye
I also listened to recently by Audible Originals: The Authorities
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Still Beating
Fiction by Jennifer Hartmann
Cora and her sister's fiancé Dean have a cute banter-y relationship that makes people think they might be into each other, but they insist they aren't. After all, he's her sister's fiancé! But then they get kidnapped together, and there's no doubt they will fall in LURVE immediately. But what about the sister?!
The author categorizes her writing style as angsty romance, and that's very accurate. So this book is definitely a straight romance with quite a bit of heterosexual S-E-X. That's not really my style in general, but it wasn't a bad novel, I guess...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
The Authorities
Audible Original Fiction by Scott Meyer
Sinclair Rutherford is new to the Seattle police force, but he's sharp. He hopes to become a homicide detective, but for now, as a rookie, he has to settle for being needled and hazed by the current detectives. But then he gets a lucky break and is noticed by someone important... or is it so lucky after all? Time will tell.
This was a hilarious and exciting story with great characters. I highly recommend it!
I also listened to recently from Audible Originals: When the Moon Hits Your Eye
I also read recently by this author: That's Not Right
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Necessary People
Fiction by Anna Pitoniak
Violet and Stella have been best friends since the first day of college. Stella is the "fun" friend, a free spirited rich girl that everyone likes, and Violet is the responsible one who makes sure that Stella's antics don't get them into any real trouble. It's a great partnership, but after graduation, the cracks between them begin to show. Although they still need each other in many ways, they are starting to resent it. Neither is ready to break away from the other just yet, but the reader can sense a crisis coming...
This was an exciting story with well-written, if not always likeable, characters.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Whalefall
Fiction by Daniel Kraus
Seventeen-year-old Jay Gardiner's father Mick recently drowned himself in the Monastery Bay, and Jay can't seem to get over it. Mick was actually a terrible person, but he was also something of a beloved local legend, known for his diving prowess and colorful personality. Since he and Jay had been estranged for over a year when he died, everyone in town knows that Mick died alone, and that it's all Jay's fault. (Or at least that's how Jay perceives things.)
Jay gets it into his head that the only way to honor his father's memory, and win back the respect of the town, is to recover Mick's remains from the dangerous depths of the bay. This is a truly bad idea, especially as Jay plans to go alone. But he's a seventeen-year-old kid, so he does it anyway.
This story is about Jay making that dive, and about all the disturbing memories of Mick that drive him there. It's unpleasant, and then it veers into unbelievable. I did not like this book.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Girls Like Us
Fiction by Cristina Alger
FBI agent Nell Flynn comes back to her hometown when her father Martin dies; she's already on an administrative leave after shooting a suspect, so she has time. When she arrives, she gets interested in the last case her father, a homicide detective, was investigating: a murdered girl whose death might be related to another similar case the year before. As she learns more, however, Nell begins to suspect that her father may have been involved in the case as more than an investigator...
This book had an okay plot but I didn't really like it. It was hard to get interested in and the characters weren't very compelling.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The Family Experiment
Fiction by John Marrs
In a futuristic Britain, the divide between rich and poor becomes ever-wider, and government control over individuals grows stronger and stronger, as the line between private corporations and public entities blurs. In this installment of the story, couples who can't have biological children compete on reality TV for the opportunity to have AI kids.
Wait, what? Just accept the premise. It's the dystopian future!
This book is listed as #3 in the "Dark Future Series," which includes The One, The Marriage Act, The Passengers, and The Minders. I have read all of these and I think they have the order wrong; this one is more like number four or five. But that's not important, I guess.
The important thing is that this book was really good, especially in audiobook form with the different narrators.
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