The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

Title: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife Author: Meg Elison Publisher: Sybaritic Press Pub. Date: 5 June, 2014, 11 Oct. 2016 Genre: Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Survival   When an illness sweeps across the world wiping out nearly all women and children and many men as well, one of the few survivors—a woman who happens to be…

Wipe

Title: Wipe Author: Joseph Turkot Publisher: Indie Pub. Date: 5 August, 2014 Genre: YA, Post-Apoc, Spec Fic   This review is for the omnibus – parts 1-5, the complete series.   Long after the world-as-we-know-it ended, civilization has pooled into communities held together by dogma of one sort or another. In Acadia, Maze and Wills…

Wolves

Title: Wolves Author: D. J. Molles Publisher: Blackstone Pub. Date: (projected) 30 Aug. 2016 Genre: Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Recommended   With nothing left to lose, Huxley, a man driven by grief to become a force of destruction, moves across the land toward a singular vengeful goal. He seeks his daughter, and the death of man…

The City of Mirrors

Title: The City of Mirrors Author: Justin Cronin Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 24 May, 2016 Series: Book #3 The Passage Trilogy   First off, anyone thinking of tackling this series should be fair-warned and fore-armed—it is loooonnnnnggg. Many think of it as ‘literary’ in the sense that it meanders and internalizes and thinks a…

Eirelan

Title: Eirelan Author: Liam O’Shiel Series: Book 1, Saga of the Latter-Day Celts Publishing platform:  CreateSpace Publication Date: November 11, 2011 Genre: Speculative Fiction, Alt-Future, Semi-Medieval Low-Tech Science Fiction, Recommended, Future Historical Fiction       First off, I interrupted my reading of this book with several family emergencies, and I always itched to get…

Black Moon

Title: Black Moon (audiobook) Author: Kenneth Calhoun Narrator; Neil Shah Publisher: 2014 Dreamscape Media Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Apocalyptic When the world becomes sleepless and insane, it falls to one man to dream for all. Biggs is a man who is surrounded by the chaos and fractured despair of a world filled with humanity wracked…

The Book of Ivy

Title: The Book of Ivy (audiobook) Author: Amy Engel Narrator: Taylor Meskimen Publisher: 2014 Listening Library (Audio) Genre: YA, Romance A young daughter raised to be driven by murderous hatred is forced to marry the son of mortal enemies in order to keep a historic peace. In a divided society walled off from the devastated…