Valentine needs money so he can get into the city and get hormones and surgery, so when he and his salvaging partner are offered a job to retrieve stolen androids, they take it. But between feelings for the cute AI in an android body helping them, disagreements with his partner, salt pirates, and the jerks they're working for, things could get...
Zeke has been living alone in a cabin, thinking he's the last person alive, until Nathan shows up injured on his doorstep a few days before Christmas. As Zeke helps Nathan with his injuries, the two men get to know each other a bit and find companionship and happiness with each...
Solari, stuck between two crime lords she owes debts to, grafts giant moth wings to her back in an act of desperation to escape into one of the mutant enclaves. Once there, she finds an ally in Alcaeus, but the hope of finding her mother leads them back into...
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When Andrew injures his leg in a bear trap post-apocalypse, he limps into a cabin he finds only to realize it's not empty, but luckily Jamie decides to help. When Andrew is healed, the two boys end up trekking across the country, running into various dangers, but growing closer along the...
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Between infections, coups, cannibals, and robots, the Metal Islands and all the people living on them are far from safe. It will be once again up to the Hell Divers and their new allies to brave the wastelands, fight the enemies, and keep everyone...
Lately I've been trying to devote full review posts, which take more time and energy, to books I really like. So for this quick reviews post, I've got a bunch of books I did not like and rated lower than 3 stars. We can't like every book, right? For the most part, despite having quite a few issues with some of these, they're "not for me" books, not necessarily bad books. But one was quite...
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Now that the people in the airship have found their new home, they have all new problems to conquer, like keeping the peace and preventing another war. Meanwhile, a team of Hell Divers and Cazadores set out together to look for possible survivors in a bunker in...
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With the country, and likely the world, ravaged by a zombie-like virus, Parker and Adam have decided to get on a boat and sail South, staying safe out on the water. But tensions grow between them when Adam wants to check out an island they keep hearing about on the radio and Parker wants to avoid people altogether because he doesn't trust...
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Parker, college freshman, is getting coffee one night when he finds himself in the middle of a zombie outbreak, being rescued by Adam, the annoying TA who gave him a C+ on his last assignment. With no family of his own, Adam agrees to cross the country with Parker to find his parents, and the two quickly grow closer, though it might complicate things when Parker finds out Adam is a...
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Nell lives in a small post-apocalyptic city in a future where computers are banned and people are born with missing body parts, which her father, the brilliant Dr. Crane, replaces with biomechanic limbs. Nell needs to think of a contribution to society that will live up to her parents', and when she finds a mannequin hand, she has the perfect idea---artificial...
