Not With a Bang, With a Whimper (Review: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller)

The Dog Stars
Peter Heller
Knopf 2012

Where do you imagine yourself after the fall of civilisation? Are you a Mad Max, simply fighting for your own survival in a world gone feral? Or are you the lone scientist trying desperately to reverse whatever grim fate befell your fellow man? Do you batten down …

Never Gonna Give You Up... (Review: Last to Die; Tess Gerritsen)

Last to Die Tess Gerritsen Random House 2012
Three families, three homes, three massacres, three survivors – no connection.  Or so it seems until the three survivors have to survive again. All three are children and all three find themselves alone in the world and deposited at strange boarding school/…

Two Roads (Review: The Indigo Spell; Richelle Mead)

The Indigo Spell Richelle Mead Razorbill 2013
The Indigo Spell is the third in Richelle Mead’s Bloodlines series.  If you haven’t read the first two books then this review will contain. You have been warned.
Life for Sydney Sage isn’t getting any easier.  In charge of the protection of Jill Dragomir, s…