A Beyond cloud nine book review

I recently won a goodreads giveaway for a book called Beyond Cloud Nine by author Greg Spry. I received a very nice signed paperback copy of the book straight from the author, which i will admit is pretty damn cool. I'm not recieving any money to review this book, just the book itself which hey free books which is always awesome. Now on to the actual review.

The book takes place in the future after mankind has started colonizing space. Scientists are on the verge of creating a new technology which will allow them to travel faster than light. When the test pilot stumbles upon a conspiracy involving terrorist who call them separists and aliens things get crazy fast. The main character Brooke Davis is a very real feeling character to me. She wasn't a perfect person, she was flawed and not necessarily always a nice or good person. But Brooke was a strong and goal oriented person who wasn't going to let anyone in her way. When the occasion called for it brooke always stepped up and did what was necessary or right even if her superiors told her not to.

The world building was believable even with the required futuristic bits to make it a scifi book. The technology while very futuristic still came across as something that could be achieved. The aliens suprised me when their background came out, but I wont tell you too much about them because that would ruin the book for you. The only thing that didnt come across as realistic to me was the cereal boxes that become bowls with everything including milk in them. :) but you have to have something fantastic in a sci-fi book and if they did exist it would be very cool.

This book is going to be a series with the second book called "Beyond the Horizon" taking place years after this one and involving Brookes niece Maya and I very much look forward to its release because I will be reading it too. I gave this book 4 out of 5 on goodreads because while I did really enjoy reading this one it was a slow read for me.


Beyond Cloud Nine by Greg Spry

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I recieved this book from the author via goodreads for free and jumped right in. I've never read anything by this author so didn't know what to expect and I really enjoy discovering new authors. This was a great read, the world was a believable but technologically advanced future. I quite enjoyed the main protagonist, she was flawed but basically a good person. She had a goal she worked towards and didn't let anyone or anything stand in her way. I loved that the plot had a twist that was unexpected. I can hardly wait for the next book in this series.



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FEED by Mira grant

I recently finished reading "FEED" by Mira grant this is the first in a trilogy called the Newsflesh series. It took a little while to figure out that the title was a wordplay on news words and not a reference to eating but I can occasionally be slow that way.

I loved it! Where has this book been and why haven't I heard of it before? The world this story is set in is so well written and vivid that it drew me in so completely that I stayed up late one night to finish it. It took me just a little over 1 day to read the whole thing. The two main characters are extremely engaging and developed that I found myself axiously awaiting what would happen to them next.

The story takes place 26 years after a virus turns people into zombies. In this book people don't loose all technology and after things start to fall apart civilization don't start to right itself. Many years down the line while people live in fear of amplification(where the virus in their blood becomes active) or being bitten the world does still go on. Bloggers have become a more trusted source of information and news due to the fact that initially the governments and newscasters claimed the zombie apocalypse was hoaxes while bloggers got information out.

Feed follows a brother and sister team of bloogers and their techie/fellow blogger as they follow a presidential candidate on campaign. The sister while everyone believed her to be completely humorless actually had a dry snarky with that left me snorting with laughter and the brother was just so outrageous that I found myself wondering if he was just a bit crazy. I really enjoyed how the back history of what happened to the world and to the siblings was given through the news blog the characters and occasionally through their thoughts instead of spending alot time in the first few chapters. Definately a must read and I can't wait to get my hands on the rest of this trilogy.The copy I read was a library copy so I still need to buy the first one too. I gave it 5 stars on my good reads because this was an absolutely great read for me and I enjoyed it alot. This book can be found in the Young adult section

I just started reading Beyond Cloud Nine by greg spry, which I won on good reads how I love free books and it looks like its gonna be interesting. And just recently finished reading Obsidian Mirror by catherine fisher which I hope to get the review up soon.





Feed by Mira Grant

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I loved it! The world this story is set in is so well written and vivid that it drew me in so completely that I staid up late to finish it. The two main characters are extremely engaging and developed that I found myself axiously awaiting what would happen next. The sister while everyone believed her to be completely humorless actually had a dry snarky with that left me snorting with laughter and the brother was just so outrageous that I found myself wondering if he was just a bit crazy. I really enjoyed how the back history of what happened to the world and to the siblings was given through the news blog the characters and occasionally through their thoughts instead of spending alot time in the first few chapters. Definately a must read and I can't wait to get my hands on the rest of this trilogy



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At Twilight by Maggie shayne

Whoo hoo I do believe my reading slump is officially gone. Now to power thru some of my book collection and pick up some library books to hopefully discover some new worlds to enjoy. I've finished two books since my last post but I'll only do one per post because the last time I did more than one it was a really big post. I threw a random selection of book names in a jar and will randomly choose names of books to read because if left to my own devises I seem to pick the same ones each time because I know I like them.

Unfortunately since alot of my books are pretty old because I've been in a slump for the last few years I didn't remember what order some of them were supposed to be in when I put them in the jar so I may end up reading a few out of order like the one I'm posting about today. I recently finished read "At Twilight" by Maggie shayne. This book is published by silhouette in 2002.

At Twilight is a bindup/omnibus of books 4 and 5 of the wings in the night series. It is ok to read the series out of order because each book is basically about a different couple, but several of the characters do show up in other books in the series so if you've read the previous 3 you would recognize other characters and know their back stories. The wings of Night series is a paranormal romance series about vampires. In this world some people are born with a certain antigen called belladonna which enables them to become vampires, but if they don't become vampires apparently they will eventually become sick from the antigen. There is a society call the department of paranormal investigations which basically wants to eradicate all vampires and chosen as those with the antigen are called. they often use chosen as bait and capture vampire and chosen alike to torture and experiment on.

The first book is "Born in Twilight" this is the story of Jameson who has known and been protected by several vampire for most of his life and Angelica a novice nun who was forcibly turned in a dark alley. She then kills her maker after he kills a homeless man from the shelter her order helped at. Jameson has been captured by DPI and rescued again and one night goes wandering and stumbles upon angelica who feeds upon him and drains him to the point of death which his friends turn him to rescue him. Angelica ends up in the care of the DPI for several months till a now vampire Jameson rescues. their romance is a very rocky one and lead to a very interesting story. The experiments that the DPI did on angelica led to some interesting consequences for both of them.

The second book is "Beyond Twilight" is the story of vampiress Cuyler and Ramsey who is the DPI agent sent to capture her. She spends alot of time basically playing pranks on him and generally making his life difficult. At the beginning of this story she kidnaps him and takes him to one of her safe houses. She is confused by him because as far as she can tell he does not have the antigen to be a chosen yet she is drawn to him and to protect him.She gives him information that starts him questioning DPI but then of course DPI interferes and makes things interesting.

these were both great reads and remind me why I was reading paranormal romance before it officially became its own genre and not just a sub genre. My copy is old enough to be marked romance instead of paranormal romance and I have read it a few times. The world in this series is an interesting telling of the vampire mythos. I really enjoyed the characters and how you see a few characters in the various books. I can invest in the couple in the book while still seeing familiar characters and how they all interact with each other. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars on goodreads.com and am looking forward to both re-reading the books I already own and buying the ones that came out after the ones I already have. on side note the cover is pretty cool too, I found it a bit creepy but not horror story creepy.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1267581248