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Fun Quick Quirky Read Pays Off First Book. Some of the criticisms of book 1 were that it ended in what could be argued was a massive cliffhanger, and this book picks up in the immediate aftermath and pays that ending off in glorious fashion. Here, in this short (barely 200 page) novel, we get a Florida/ Gulf Coast ki...

Another Solid Evolution Of Series. Every book in this series is a fun, quick read, with this one being the longest to date - and still clocks in at barely 220 pages. Here, again, Rosamilia takes the final scenes of the previous book and expands the...

Yet Another Evolution Of Series Leads To Potential Soft Reboot. Rosamilia has proven with this series that not only can he pack a lot of fun action into a few pages (again barely topping the 200 page mark here), but that he can continually twist his characters in interesting directions that make you want to see wh...

Wild Opening Line Sets Up One Hell Of A Tale. This book has a lot going for it - at barely 200 pages, it is by default a fairly short read. With its pacing, it feels even shorter - even though so much is happening. With its ending... eh, I thought it worked well as a series starter, but I could also see that those claiming it a cliffhanger may have a point. *Maybe.*

But come on. That opening line. That general premise. The fact that our main character's "day job" is so far out of normal experience as to be *l...

Slow Paced Yet Intriguing, Not Sure That Twist Lands As Intended. This is one of those slower paced books where there is enough here to keep you invested - and Sheinmel certainly drops some bombs at exactly the right time when maybe you're becoming slightly less invested. Also a great shortish (sub 300 page) read, but a slower one where the scenes play out more akin to the pace one would imagine of a l...

Don't Like Collegiate Greek Life? This Book Is Likely A Large Example Of Why. Ok, so I gotta admit, Greeks were never that big at my commuter school that had just earned University status less than a decade before I first started classes and which had been a literal corn field when my parents were born. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely proud to be a Kennesaw State Owl, and the school has come a LONG way in its short existence - but we also don't have the hundreds of years of collegiate greek life that schools like the University of Georgia ...

Weird Blend Of Neuroscience And Self-Help Lacks Critically Necessary Documentation. This book is fascinating in a lot of ways, and could genuinely help some people, but its critical flaw is also its biggest: showing up at just 12% documentation - at least in the Advance Review Copy edition I read over a month before publication (and which I've had for several weeks already before getting to it) when you're proposing a novel diagnosis of neuroscience fails the Sagan Standard (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence)...

Solid YA Horror. Weird Whiplash As Book 2 In Series. This book, taken independently, is pretty damn awesome. You've got strong 80s vibes, including strong RL Stine type vibes. You've got a mall - that quintessential 80s teen experience (says the kid who was never a teen until the mid 90s). You've got all kinds of ancient smalltown creepiness and secrets. Seriously, every bit of this is clicking on every level.

You've even got monsters that fans of Jeremy Robinson will recognize, as the way Ralph writes his zombies here is very reminiscent of the way Robinson uses at least some types of zombies in h...

Bleeding Edge Thriller May Not Be For The Younger Side Of YA. This is one of those tales that will be utterly terrifying for many in just how real it is, at least in its basic "Yes, AI can do this now" premise. And on that side, it absolutely works quite well without going into the "AI is evil" camp, which is quite refreshing to see an author hold off on going off that particular cliff. AI is a tool, same as any other, and thus can be used for both good and evil - it is the mind and the intent of the human...

Less Gory Saw. I'm glad the description mentioned the "escape room" and the need to make it out or die, as it made that headline *so* much more concise, since it technically isn't a spoiler. :D

And yet that headline is exactly what you get here - the latest entrant in the Quinn and Costa police procedural thrillers is a version of Saw set in North Florida (the "First Coast" region of Jacksonville (where I happen to live) and St Augustine) and surrounding areas.

I'm not a fan of horror generally and specifically not a fan of gory horror, so I can't tell a fan of the Saw franchise just how closely this aligns with that franchise - I don't know. I do know the base ideas are similar enough that fans of that franchise will enjoy this book on at ...