Aliens: Bishop by T. R. Napper (2023)
As a kid, one of the first films I ever remember watching was 1979’s Alien. “In Space No One Can Hear you Scream”, my favorite line to ever come from a promotional for a movie. Since then I have been obsessed with the franchise, reading more and more of the books to get a full picture of this Wild West of a space thriller.
Thunderhead Book 2 by Neal Shusterman (2018)
So as I’m going through this series. One of the things I’ve enjoyed the absolute most is the world being slowly built up around me. Yes things are slightly touched on around the function of the thunderhead in the first book, but this book dwarfs the information we had in comparison. Even the lives of every day people have more life breathed into them, making the series feel much less like all the people being Gleamed are just slight foot notes in the lines. The building makes sense, her choice of Gleaming makes sense, the building up into book 3 makes sense.
Scythe Book 1 by Neal Shusterman (2017)
I have to say, I’ve started and fallen off of quite a few first books of certain series out there, leaving the rest of the story of those characters unknown and forgotten. This though, is not one of those books.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2002)
My introduction to this story was, like many people in todays age, through the film adaptation. A girl brought into a world crafted and stylized by Tim Burton.