I enjoyed the storytelling & narrative aspect of the book. The story is about Ciri, but we follow everyone else around her, as well as events which concern her

While The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy could certainly classify as a horror novel, I found it to be less scary and more of a science-fiction thriller.

The delivery by such luminaries as James McAvoy, Kat Dennings, John Lithgow, David Tennant, and Jeffery Wright make this audiobook an event to be heard.

The setting for Scourge of the Five Kingdoms’ story is a decade-long war, not just a war story. The war and rogue’s gallery of antagonists are a clear threat.

In a futuristic society people are grown as nearly identical embryos & conditioned to remove strong desires. They take a drug called soma to keep them docile.

This is not part of an epic saga which is a staple in the world of fantasy. Geralt rides the countryside, meeting people, talking to them, and killing a monster

Piranesi is an apt novel for 2020. The theme of being alone in your own world, in a “House”, a study in solitude, is something we could certainly understand.

Telling the stories, and how they differ, is a main point in this book. Retelling the same passage in either a different way, or a different perspective.

This book has a lot going for it, police drama, corporate intrigue, murder, action, a new kind of tortured super-hero, and the effects on a small community.

The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette tells of seven people wake up one morning and slowly realize the rest of humanity has simply vanished.