Category Archives: Doubleday

Review: The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Jenn

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Doubleday (August 12, 2014) ISBN: 978-0385538152 Source: Publisher (egalley) After an unknown cousin commits suicide, twenty-something A. finds himself owner of a beautiful, yet slightly ominous, estate in Point Bless, Virginia.  Questions surround his cousin’s death; … Continue reading →

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Review: The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon (Audiobook)

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Jenn

Listening Length: 16 hours and 23 minutes Version: Unabridged Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. (April 8, 2014) Source: Publisher (via Audiobook Jukebox) The death of print is eminent. Books, magazines and newspapers have been replaced by Memes, handheld devices that are not only … Continue reading →

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Review: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Jenn

Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Doubleday (July 8, 2014) ISBN: 978-0385534833 Source: Publisher (egalley) Emily Shepard is a sixteen year-old only child of parents who work at a nuclear plant in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. She has her fair share of struggles: … Continue reading →

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Review: Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Jenn

Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Doubleday (June 10, 2014) ISBN-10: 0385537093 Source: Publisher In Robopocalypse, humankind was at war with robots. The world as we know it is destroyed, a pathetic wreckage of what once existed. Once Archos, a “super” robot is destroyed, … Continue reading →

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Review: The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Jenn

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Doubleday (February 11, 2014) ISBN-10: 0385538499 Source: Publisher West Hall, Vermont has a centuries-old history of strange disappearances and activity tracked back to old, family legends.  The most infamous is that of Sara Harrison Shea, found … Continue reading →

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Review: Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Jenn

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Doubleday (July 10, 2012) ISBN-10: 0385535783 Source: Publisher Twenty years ago, sixteen-year-old Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town.  Her boyfriend Richie, whom just also happened to be her brother Peter’s best friend, was the … Continue reading →

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Review: Amped by Daniel H. Wilson

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Jenn

Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Doubleday (June 5, 2012) ISBN-10: 0385535155 Source: Publisher (via Edelweiss) In a near-future world, the medical profession has found a treatment for various diseases/ailments: brain implants. These implants, referred to as amps cures such diseases as … Continue reading →

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Frightful Friday: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Jenn

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! This week’s Frightful Friday read is Robopocalypse by Daniel H. … Continue reading →

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Review: A Dark Matter by Peter Straub

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Jenn

Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (February 9, 2010) ISBN-10: 038551638X Source: Publisher The year is 1966 in Madison, WI.  Four high school students Hootie Bly, Dilly Olson, Jason Boatman, and Eel Truax, become enamored by Spencer Mallon, a … Continue reading →

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Review: The Rapture by Liz Jensen

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Jenn

Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Doubleday (August 11, 2009) ISBN-10: 0385528213 Source: Publisher   Sixteen-year-old Bethany Krall is a patient at Oxsmith Adolescent Secure Psychiatric Hospital.  She was committed two years ago after brutally murdering her mother.  Bethany’s last psychologist was … Continue reading →

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