Nonfiction and Nonsense

  • Opposition by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    There is a vastly different feel between Opposition and its preceding book Origin, its desperation and urgency unlike before. The first hundred or so pages can have you feeling pretty hopeless and almost as heartbroken as some of the characters. And once the first set of conflicts work themselves out, it’s almost non stop action,…

  • The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

    I never thought that the most horrifying book I would ever read would be nonfiction. The first twenty pages alone are just as anxiety-inducing and frightening as the beginning of a scary movie. I felt nearly the same as I would during the first few minutes into watching a new thriller, I was unsure as…

  • Origin by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    The fourth book in the Lux series is pretty grim. Katy’s life becomes really miserable, Daemon becomes even more reckless because of what’s going on with Katy, and a lot of people die. One death made me really happy, because in my opinion, it was well deserved. Then there was another death that was unexpected,…

  • Elementary: The Periodic Table Explained by James M. Russell

    This is another book store browse find. It was in the discount section, and I ultimately decided to buy it because a friend of mine mentioned that she was taking some courses to learn more about her job, which deals with chemicals. Basically, she inspired me to learn more about what everything is made of.…

  • Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    Things finally progress to a place where you want the main characters to be in Opal, the third book in the Lux series. The good stuff finally does take place, in case you wanted to know, because it almost seems like it is never going to happen. Three books is a long time to wait…