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No-spoiler book reviews, because I hate spoilers.
The novel follows the life events of a fictional veteran who never actually got to fight in World War II, as he was shortly captured and turned into a prisoner. Unlike a traditional plot, Slaughterhouse-Five resembles a memoir format.
The biography of a surgeon in pre-civil war America.
A novel that explores what it means to have an atypical relationship to work.
A book about transportation and the movement of goods in American logistics.
A one-handed orphan gets adopted, beginning a wild romp through the streets of New England.
A peasant girl enrolls into a competitive military school and learns secret techniques to fight in an upcoming war.
A collection of horror short stories, from small scares to the cosmic, featuring urban sprawl and incongruous elements.
The narrator comes off as schizoid, and his personality becomes his undoing.
As a short novel about the worst kind of juvenile delinquent, it explores an intriguing “what if” regarding crime, treatment and punishment.
This is a book about investigating the murder of a god, where necromancy has become formalized under legal procedures.
This is a collection of horror vignettes that link together. I found the last story to be more in-line with a traditional fantasy plot, but the rest are unique in concept and execution.
The premise of this book is intriguing: a woman participates in a university study on morality, and the researcher has an agenda.