Tag: Self-Published

Whatever Remains of Us in the End by Brandon Baker

Whatever Remains of Us in the ..

Posted 07/18/2023 by Charli in Book Reviews / 2 Comments

I’ve been following Brandon Baker for quite a while on social media – most notably TikTok and Instagram. So I was thrilled to find out that he’d written books, especially horror/thriller books. So of course, when I got KindleUnlimited back, I had to read them. While I will admit I didn’t feel a big connection to any of the characters in this book, that isn’t uncommon for me with horror genre novels. For some reason I just don’t tend to get attached to or connect with most horror novel characters – probably because I figure they’ll die at some point. But the characters in this book had fairly decent backstories. Obviously this being a novella the characters couldn’t have too elaborate backstories, but I think the backstories were sufficient for the needs of the story. The plot for Whatever Remains of Us in the End is a bit convoluted, but […]

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Atropos by John Japuntich

Atropos by John Japuntich

Posted 09/29/2020 by Charli in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

I chose this book through Reedsy Discovery based solely on the description. I loved the thought of a viral component to gaining immortality as well as becoming infertile. I was curious to see how the world would react to something like that. I wasn’t disappointed. The Virus So what we know about the virus in the beginning is that it is highly contagious, it provides the infected immortality, and that it renders the infected infertile. So while everyone gets the chance to live forever1, no one gets to have children anymore. Kind of sucky but at the same time, do we really need a world full of immortal people who are also having kids and overpopulating the planet? This was a great virus idea. Most viruses do bad things to people, they don’t do anything that could potentially be seen as good. Of course, whether or not being made immortal […]

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