Aliens: Vasquez by Violet Castro (2022)
After just coming off of another closely related book called “Bishop”, again one of the all-around favorite characters from the alien franchise, the former being such a great addition to an already built up universe. The things that worked within that book, were either absent or didn’t quite hit the mark I was looking for.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving (1820)
So as I was going through my long listed library to go over a piece I haven’t listened to before during my morning routine, yes it is also the spooky season, I realized I had in my hands a copy of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, a book I had obviously heard of, but yet to take in. Seeing that it was under a 2 hour listen, I gave it a go.
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.