Category: Must Reads

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Ghost Country: Patrick Lee

After reading The Breach I was definitely interested in continuing the series as I got really into it.

Well this second book, in my opinion, is better than the first one! I really enjoyed it and was sad when it was over and the story concluded. I could have kept reading for ages.

Totally recommend this book (but you’ll need to read The Breach to understand) and give it 5 stars.

Amazon Summary:
At the start of Lee’s dramatic sequel to Breach, gun men hit the motorcade in which Paige Campbell, who has just met with the U.S. president, is riding through Washington, D.C., and kill everyone but her. Before she’s captured, Campbell uses her cellphone to get off a call for help to Bethany Stewart, her colleague in the shadowy outfit known as Tangent. Stewart, in turn, recruits Travis Chase, who was once briefly involved in a Tangent operation, and reveals to him the existence of an “entity” resembling a dark metal cylinder that opens a hole in time. Since the entity has shown a horrific future for humanity, Chase and Stewart, who suspects the president was behind the motorcade attack, must scramble to save their friend and forestall devastation in the years to come. Lee imaginatively blends a Baldacci-like political tale of betrayals and assassination with time travel in a thoughtful science-fictional thriller.

  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Harper; Original edition (December 28, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780061584442
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The Breach: Patrick Lee

Sometimes when I’m at a loss for what to read next, I go to this site. You can enter the ISBN number of a book you enjoy and it comes up with recommended reading.

In one of my searches, I came across this one, checked out the reviews and decided to give it a go even though the description seemed a bit, “bleh”.

Well I TOTALLY enjoyed this book! I really recommend it and give it 5 stars. It kept me on my toes the entire time and I really got into it. It has just enough scifi to keep me interested, but not going over the top.

It’s also one of those books that both men and women would get into.

Anyways, great book!

Amazon Summary:
Lee’s debut thriller pits ex-con ex-cop Travis Chase against increasingly dire odds as the action ratchets up like levels in a complex video game. Fresh out of prison, Travis sets out on a solo Alaskan trek, wanting nothing more than quiet time for introspection. Then he encounters a downed plane containing the dead bodies of the United States’s first lady and several others, plus hints about a mysterious missing item. Armed with superior firepower and the instincts and savvy of a good cop, Travis tracks down the murderers, who are torturing hostage Paige Campbell to get her father, Peter, to reveal another clue. Travis manages to rescue Paige just as Peter confesses the information and is killed. His last words send Paige and Travis into a dangerous world of secrets and conspiracies, where they slowly learn about the eponymous Breach and meet progressively more menacing foes. It’s all here: brilliantly devious enemies; nifty, innovative gadgets and weaponry; hang-on-to-your-hat action; and razor-sharp plot twists aplenty.

  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Harper; X edition (December 29, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780061584459
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City of Fallen Angels: Cassandra Clare

This is the MUCH anticipated 4th book in the Mortal Instrument series. I totally loved this series so much and obviously I was looking forward to reading this one.

It definitely did not disappoint and I think it was a great progression.

It also has a great twist and ending, which of course sets up for more books.

I wish these authors put books out quicker…. sigh.

Five stars and recommend!


Amazon Summary:
The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.
But nothing comes without a price.
Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her. His mother just found out that he’s a vampire and now he’s homeless. Everywhere he turns, someone wants him on their side—along with the power of the curse that’s wrecking his life. And they’re willing to do anything to get what they want. Not to mention that he’s dating two beautiful, dangerous girls—neither of whom knows about the other one.
When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.
Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. The stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels. 

  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry; First Edition edition (April 5, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1442403543
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The Dark and Hollow Places: Carrie Ryan

This is the much anticipated third installment in the Forest of Hands and Teeth series that I adored.

Seriously, I loved this series and felt it had just the right mixture of zombie and humanity to keep me interested.

Anyways, I don’t have any complaints and I felt it wrapped the series up nicely. It was my top book of 2010 for sure.

I recommend it!

Amazon Summary:
There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister’s face when she and Elias left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the horde as they found their way to the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters.

Annah’s world stopped that day and she’s been waiting for him to come home ever since. Without him, her life doesn’t feel much different from that of the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Then she meets Catcher and everything feels alive again.

Except, Catcher has his own secrets — dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah’s longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it’s up to Annah — can she continue to live in a world drenched in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return’s destruction?

  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (March 22, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780385738590
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The Passage

So this book was referred to me by Penny when I wrote the tweet:

And she did not disappoint! First off, this book took me several days to finish because it has almost 800 pages. LOVE it!
It’s this sort of end of the world because of a nasty virus that makes people sort of like vampire/zombie crazy people. But it spans like over 100 years and has such an in depth story. I really enjoyed it and totally recommend it to people who like this type of genre. It also is the first of a trilogy, so I’m really looking forward to the rest of them.

4 stars and yes, recommend it.

Amazon Summary:
Fans of vampire fiction who are bored by the endless hordes of sensitive, misunderstood Byronesque bloodsuckers will revel in Cronin’s engrossingly horrific account of a post-apocalyptic America overrun by the gruesome reality behind the wish-fulfillment fantasies. When a secret project to create a super-soldier backfires, a virus leads to a plague of vampiric revenants that wipes out most of the population. One of the few bands of survivors is the Colony, a FEMA-established island of safety bunkered behind massive banks of lights that repel the virals, or dracs—but a small group realizes that the aging technological defenses will soon fail. When members of the Colony find a young girl, Amy, living outside their enclave, they realize that Amy shares the virals’ agelessness, but not the virals’ mindless hunger, and they embark on a search to find answers to her condition. PEN/Hemingway Award–winner Cronin (The Summer Guest) uses a number of tropes that may be overly familiar to genre fans, but he manages to engage the reader with a sweeping epic style. The first of a proposed trilogy, it’s already under development by director Ripley Scott and the subject of much publicity buzz

  • Hardcover: 784 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books; First Edition, First Printing edition (June 8, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345504968