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{4.5/5} Star Trek: The Fall — The Crimson Shadow by Una McCormack, published in 2013 Mhevet, a Cardassian police officer, is not happy she’s been assigned a murder case — a Bajoran man. She’s worried about what some thugs are up to in the rough part of town, and would rather be keeping an eye […]
{4.5/5} Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes by Corinna Bechko & Gabriel Hardman, published in 2012 Exile on the Planet of the Apes by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman & Marc Laming, published in 2012 Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm (3 volumes) by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman & Damian Couceiro, published in 2013-14 This set […]
{4/5} A Birder’s Guide to Everything, released in 2013 David, a member of a birding club at school, thought he saw a duck that’s supposed to be extinct. So he and his friends head out to try to find it again. Meanwhile his dad is getting married, a year and a half after his mom […]
{4/5} “‘You weren’t kidding. You are in the CIA.’ ‘Somebody has to be.’” Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, released in 2014 Jack Ryan is a financial analyst who secretly works for the CIA. When he discovers a Russian plot to devastate the US economy he flies to Moscow to do whatever he can to stop it. […]
{4/5} “He’s not talking to you. First you tell us humans are bad, now they’re good, what else? Up is down, cold is hot, gremlins don’t smell.” Hotel Transylvania, released in 2012 Dracula runs a hotel for monsters, a place where they can be safe from bloodthirsty humans. Dracula wants to keep his daughter Mavis […]
{4/5} Beautiful Lies, released in 2010 Emilie runs a hair salon. She receives an anonymous love letter — unbeknownst to her it’s from Jean, who works for her. Emilie is not interested in the letter for herself but decides to send it to her mom to cheer her up. It’s about mistaken identities. Anyone that […]
{4.5/5} Star Trek: No Time Like the Past by Greg Cox, published in 2014 Seven of Nine is investigating a mysterious signal when she’s whisked into the past and comes face to face with Captain James T. Kirk. They must work together to return Seven to her own time. Meanwhile the Orions have found out […]
{4.5/5} “I sometimes feel like I’m looking down on myself. Like there’s this older, wiser me watching over this 19-year-old rough draft, who’s full of all this potential, but has to live more to catch up with that other self somehow. And, uh, I know I’ll get there. It’s just sometimes I think I want […]
{4.5/5} “It’s wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.” Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore, published in 2002 It’s been decided that it’s time for Biff to tell his story — he was a friend of Jesus when they […]
{4.5/5} “You know, there was a girl in our school… and she had premarital sex. Know what she did on her graduation day? Died! Of a heroin overdose!” — Lindsay and Sam’s dad Freaks and Geeks season 1, aired in 1999-2000 This show only lasted 1 season. It takes place in the 1980s. Lindsay is […]