The Traveler (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 1)270 reviews John Twelve Hawks Doubleday, 2005 Great Book! + Three Hawks short of a 5 star! + Through the Lens of the Security Camera I loved this book. It was a real page turner. Just think, you could leave your body and travel through other realms. Live off the grid. What a peaceful life that would be. Great adventure!             Mona Lisa Craving (Monere: Children of the Moon, Book 3)18 reviews Sunny Berkley Trade, 2008 Mona Lisa Craving + Good, quick read... Mona Lisa has always been different - first among humans and now among the Monère through an accident of birth. Right now, Mona Lisa has to find a way to successfully hide the unexpected side effects of killing Mona Louisa--demon-like cravings for blood--or the High Lord of Hell will order her ...             Child of a Dead God: A Novel of the Noble Dead21 reviews Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee Roc Hardcover, 2008 6th in series + Not Quite Over + Another good one! + The last in the series, but the saga continues...             The Devil's Whisper2 reviews Miyuki Miyabe Kodansha International, 2007 Part mystery, part SF, part social commentary + An Emotionally Engaging Thriller The Devil's Whisper is one of the earliest published works of Miyabe's, and arguably her first popular hit in Japan. In many ways this is a fairly representative work of hers--it has the classic Miyabe formula of a scattered collection of mysterious clues faithfully collected, assembled, and ...             Halting State55 reviews Charles Stross Ace Hardcover, 2007 Believable Near Future + Good Extrapolation about the Future This is what real SciFi is all about (believable futures). If a writer can convince me what they are writing about can really happen, I am hooked. I am going read more of Charles Stross.             No Dominion: A Novel25 reviews Charlie Huston Del Rey, 2006 Smart, sharp and gritty fun. + vampyre fan!! + Gritty and great! + The new drug in town + Wow...             The Hellbound Heart: A Novel62 reviews Clive Barker Harper Paperbacks, 2007 Can you put the puzzle box down? + Books are always better than the movies + Hellbound is Heavensent + A beautiful (terrifying) edition             Blood Noir (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 16)294 reviews Laurell K. Hamilton Berkley Hardcover, 2008 The stories have changed, but they're not bad! + love it Ok, so I've read EVERY single book that LKH has written. Yes, her stories have changed to become a lot more about sex (a little ironic especially for the Anita Blake series since Anita started off as Ms. Chastity Belt). Still, it doesn't make the stories bad. That being said, I like romance ...             The Devil's Labyrinth: A Novel39 reviews John Saul Ballantine Books, 2007 John Saul book + A Suspenseful Novel with A Bit of a Plot Twist I paid full price for this book at the book store - $7.95 paperback! It was good, but I have definately read better from John Saul! If you are a true fan of his books then you will read it!             Parasite Eve6 reviews Hideaki Sena Vertical, 2006 Bien. + Worth sticking with + Slow at first but quite Interesting + Top-notch SF/Horror             Daughter Of Hounds19 reviews Caitlin R. Kiernan Roc Trade, 2007 Moving Adventure + another strange one by Keirnan + Words on fire + A book that reads like a freight train             The Host: A Novel684 reviews Stephenie Meyer Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Beautiful Host + Suspense, love, and betrayal... + Interspecies Stockholm Syndrome No vampires appear in Meyer's latest novel, instead an alien species invades our planet and eventually the bodies of the human population. In the end most of these host lose their personality but not all. Such is the case of the young human female Melanie. She fights to keep her own identity in ...             Your Heart Belongs to Me Dean Koontz Bantam, 2008 From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all… At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry ...             The Nightmare Factory7 reviews Joe Harris, Stuart Moore, ... Harper Paperbacks, 2007 FANTASTIC LIGOTTI ADAPTATIONS + Long overdue exposure for this dark light + Awesome horror graphic novel Thomas Ligotti is really one of the best-kept secrets in the horror field. He's almost a throwback to supernatural writers of days gone by who could scare you without having to resort to blood & guts. Besides that, Ligotti is a fellow Detroiter and I've recently found we attended the same college, ...             Thirteen76 reviews Richard K. Morgan Del Rey, 2007 Show me, don't tell me Very exciting premise here - in the not so distant future America has split along conservative and liberal lines into 2 separate countries and genetic experimentation has created a race of "super men" called 13's (genetic variation #13) who have either been locked up or exiled to the Mars colony. ...             Faces of Fear: A Novel21 reviews John Saul Ballantine Books, 2008 Faces of Fear by John Saul + Scary, But Could Have Been a Little Better + THE ENDING LEAVES A LOT TO BE DESIRED! + Good Reading             Gecko30 reviews Jack Priest Bootleg Press, 2003 Beware the cute little gecko... + Ludlum meets King meets Rollins + These little lizards are definitely not cute! + Half creature feature, half rogue-cop procedural             Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel291 reviews Joe Hill William Morrow, 2007 A legacy in horror honored + A great, debut thriller This first novel by Joe Hill, author of the acclaimed collection 20th Century Ghosts, makes its US debut with no little fanfare. And it lives up to its billing. From the moment aging Ozzy Osbourne-style rocker Judas Coyne is tricked into adding one more item to his collection of bizarre ...             World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War455 reviews Max Brooks Three Rivers Press, 2007 Story of Human Nature at its Best (and Worst) + Not a story- but a world + Really Cool Zombie Book + A strong read for the end of times + well thought out and mature 'zombie Lit'             Haunted: A Novel103 reviews Chuck Palahniuk Anchor, 2006 wow I thought that this book was entertaining, novel, and well written. It tells a frame story beautifully, although beautiful is not really the right word at all. Not only was it thought provoking, but it provoked a strong reaction in general, a trait that is losing strength in literature today. ...