A Short History of the Girl Next Door – Review

"I am completely in love with my best friend from childhood, she has absolutely no idea, and now she's interested in older, more popular guys. This sounds like a bad movie already." A Short History of the Girl Next Door starts with Matt Wainwright catching us up on his lifelong friendship with Tabby, the girl [...]

The Evaporation of Sofi Snow – Review

"How quickly humans could turn on each other when fed suspicion. Like smoke tossed out as solid evidence, whispered into the frightened ears of those needing someone to blame in order to feel safe again." Sofi Snow is a gamer. Working as part of a team of gamers to help her Corporation fight for blood [...]

Strangers – Review

"Both of us are sure we're right, but one of us is living in a world of make-believe right now." Strangers was the January book club read for the Instagram group BlackHeart Reads. If you're on Instagram and are interested in joining their monthly reads, click the link and follow their page! It's always a [...]

Ready Player One – Review

"Going outside is highly overrated." Virtual Reality has been the stuff of science fiction for a long time. Simulated worlds, offering everything that real life simply can't. And as a society that is closer to achieving the immersion into these worlds than ever before, I think the idea of exploring these virtual worlds is more [...]

Match Made in Manhattan – Review

"The more often you go on dates, the more you start to feel like you're dating yourself." Match Made in Manhattan follows Alison on her fast paced introduction to the technology of modern dating. Through her profile on Match.com, we are introduced to various men via dating profiles, text threads, email chains and of course, [...]

The Power – Review

"The shape of power is always the same." The Power is such an amazing book! Anyone who enjoys reading about the complexity and reality of power, both perceived and enforced, implied and physical, will enjoy this novel. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and The Power shows us the harsh truth in those four words. We open with [...]

Morning Star – Review

Here's the deal Howlers! This is the third book in a trilogy, so this review will contain spoilers from the first two books. It can't be helped so stop whining, you gorydamn Pixies. To be perfectly honest darling, if you haven't read this series by now, you are never going to earn your scar at [...]

Exploring the Instagram Algorithm

Anyone who has been on Instagram for the last year knows the dark magic that is known as "The Algorithm". And this is Dark Magic indeed. No one knows exactly what makes it tick, what works, what doesn't. Though, like with any sorcery, there are many, many theories running amuck. The argument for the algorithm [...]

Golden Son – Review

First, my goodmen, let me begin by saying: if you haven't read Red Rising, please stop and go read the bloodydamn book! There will be spoilers for Red Rising in this review. It can't be helped. Don't be a Pixie and cry about it. Just read the gory book. "Once upon a time, a man [...]

Red Rising – Review

"I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war." Anyone who has known me at all, for any time, during the last two years, has probably had me try and push this book on them. I mean, it's pretty bloodydamn amazing. As I've pushed it and raved about it and wanted to [...]