One of the things lockdown is good for (in addition of help fight Covid-2019) is that you get additional time for reading (even if you have, as in my case, kids to home-school). I have finished early my March’s books and already started with these three I present here today (in one case I’m almost done).
The Anomaly by Michael Rutger. I have heard a lot of good things about this novel (also recommended by Ellen Datlow), therefore I couldn’t but give it a try. The log-line? Not all secrets are meant to be found. While it is allegedly pitched to ‘Dan Brown’s lovers’, I can already tell it is much better written than the Da Vinci Code, and that I’m not going to be disappointed.
Ancestor by Scott Sigler is a great example of an SF thriller that promises to keep readers glued to its pages. Here’s the blurb: “Cancer. Obesity. The flu. Old age. They can all kill you – and modern medical science hasn’t ever found a cure. Until today. On a remote island in the Great Lakes, an unusual group of scientists are using extinct DNA to create the perfect organ donor. It could save millions of lives and win Dr Claus Rhumkorrf the Nobel Prize he craves. The donor animal is genetically the ancestor of all species on the planet – but Nature wiped it out two hundred million years ago. Rhumkorrf and his team are about to find out why.”
A Mortal Glamour by Chelsea Quinn Yabro. This was a suggestion from a fellow writer, and it is solid historical horror. The back cover gives good hints about what you could expect from this novel. “Amidst the many calamities of the late 14th century something sinister is at work among the sisters of la Tres Saunte Annunciacion, a force the women and the men around them seem powerless to fight. What is overwhelming both the holy and the damned? The true horrors of a dark age combine with ingenious imagination for a tumultuous tale of tragic love and disastrous desire.” Intriguing, isn’t it?
Happy Reading during the Easter break (or whatever you celebrate. After having lived in East Asia for long, long time, I happily enjoy anything festive that comes my way). And stay safe!