Rating: 5 out of 5 William Meikle’s Operation: Yukon is the 11th book in his wonderful S-Squad series. These are fun military-versus-monsters tales with a squad of Scottish lads who get a reputation for being monster magnets. I urge you…
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Review: “Dead Moon,” Peter Clines
Pros: Moon zombies!! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 Dead Moon, by Peter Clines, is a wonderful new take on the zombie story! For nearly a hundred years, the Moon has hosted cemeteries. There’s just no more room to…
Review: “The Pilot,” Michael Cole
Pros: Interesting military-vs-monsters story Cons: Details that don’t add up right Rating: 3 out of 5 Michael Cole’s The Pilot introduces us to Victor Seymour, a Navy SEAL who was discharged due to cancer, recovered, and became a mercenary. He…
Review: “Lords of the Earth,” David Bowles
Pros: Interesting characters and solution Cons: Didn’t pull me in right away Rating: 4 out of 5 I got David Bowles’s Lords Of The Earth: A Kaiju Novel from a Storybundle, so while Kaiju aren’t usually my thing, I was…
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Review: “Subterrestrial,” Michael McBride
Pros: Interesting disaster story with clever tweaks Cons: I had difficulty getting emotionally involved in most of the characters’ fates Rating: 3 out of 5 In Michael McBride’s Subterrestrial a disastrously failed drilling operation in the Arctic unearths signs of…
"A Girl’s Guide to Guns and Monsters," eds. Greenberg & Hughes
Pros: Fantastic execution of a delicious premise Cons: As always for an anthology: not every story will suit you equally Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Review copy courtesy of Penguin Group. Women, monsters, and ass-kicking—what more could I ask…
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