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Best Book Reviews

Your Best Book Reviews are right here, my friend. These are the best books I’ve read this month.

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Life After Life Chronicles Best Book Reviews
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Best Science Stories or Science Fiction More Good Things Best Book Reviews
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Best Book Review – your first one’s here

Best Book Reviews
Cover of The Stars Must Wait Click to read full review

Keith Laumer, in one of his last books, describes a dystopian United States from the perspective of Terrance Jackson, an astronaut awoken from suspended animation after eighty years.

It’s a delicious premise. Just as the spaceship was to launch a colonization trip to Callisto, the launch was aborted with one second to go. There are about a dozen crew members aboard: a full crew and a full backup crew.

All the crew is suspended, but they awake at different times by the computer program. Meanwhile, more

by Andy Zach on Goodreads

Surprise! You’ll like this next book review

July Joy My Undead Mother-in-law
Review of My Undead Mother-in-law. Click to read review and listen to excerpt

Outlandish Fun

Andy Zach continues his unrelenting attack on the horror/zombie genre with outlandish humor. What will society do with the new human zombies after the havoc caused by The Turkey Zombies?!? That was a rhetorical question…so just laugh! 😉

by JH & DDDH on Audible

Your Third of Best Book Reviews is Below Here

Axevictime on Amazon UK

4.0 out of 5 stars 

Originality Overload!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2021

Wow! I think my originality meter overflowed! This short story collection includes fantasy and science fiction. Its settings go from post-apocalyptic Mars to medieval worlds where magic reigns. There’s humor and horror, sex and violence, victories and defeats, villains and heroes. Oh, and time-travel too.

Further, many of the stories are set in the same universe and cross-reference each other. At times, they feel like chapters from the same book.

I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys originality and creative use of medieval dialect as well as invented alien languages.

by Andy Zach

I’m embarrassed to say this, but I’m biased here; two of my short stories are this book. So you can disregard this review, even though it’s only about the other short stories.

The Last Best Book Reviews

Doctor Doolittle’s Zoo

Hugh Lofting continues his imaginative exploration of the things the good Doctor Doolittle can do through talking to animals. This time it’s a post office run by them. In the fictional West African country of Fantippo.

As usual, the Doctor spends whatever money he gets on animals and people in need. As usual, his animal friends work together to get him more money. Hugh Lofting surprises us with an imaginative riff within his story: how about a series of short stories by animals for an animal magazine?

by Andy Zach

But Wait! There’s More Best Book Reviews!

Turkeys!

This was a fun listen! Sam Melvin is a reporter for a small newspaper in a small town. When people start being attacked by turkeys, Sam is on the job! As the first one to report the outbreak of a disease turning the turkeys into zombies, Sam is busy trying to find the flock and let the world know what is happening.

The story follows numerous attacks by the hoard of turkeys and the various ways that people try to fight them off. There is a little romance along the way for a few couples, even in the face of possible death. Add in the backstory of online news and entrepreneurship, a football game turned zombie fight and a great white shark and you have some great scenes!

from Amazon by Nessie315
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Get Your Favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

Out of the Dark Fantasy Book

Get Your Favorite Science and Fantasy Books from my reviews. I’ve been busy reading and I try to review every book I read. Here are the very best books I’ve read this month.

If you want free audiobooks, you can get them here, through my newsletter by clicking here. If you want a free ebook (and laughter!), just contact me here and I’ll send you one, Zombie Turkeys, my first novel.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Books – You Begin Here

Out of the Dark - SciFi/Fantasy Book
David Weber’s book

David Weber once again creates a page-turning series. This one focuses on an invasion of the Earth by an alien species sent from a galactic empire.

The Earth is devastated. Half the population is killed from kinetic bombardments. Will the Earth surrender?

With vastly superior technology, the alien species is confident of conquest. Too bad humanity doesn’t know how to surrender.

The plot proceeds somewhat predictably but ends with a surprise twist. Some reviewers hated the twist. I liked it. Maybe I’m twisted?

If you like David Weber’s Honor Harrington series or John Ringo’s Posleen series, you’ll probably like this one

Andy Zach’s review on Goodreads and Amazon

Here Comes Your Fantasy Book Review

Song for the Basilisk - Fantasy Book
Song for the Basilisk by Patricia McKillip

This was my second reading of ‘Song for the Basilisk’, the last one was over 20 years ago.

It’s even better the second time. I read it more slowly and understood the political machinations and the mysteries the author presented the reader. Patricia McKillip definitely has the ‘mystery’ + ‘fantasy’ combination to herself.

The premise is simple. There are four factions contending for rulership of the kingdom. The Basilisk slaughters one that has ruled for hundreds of years. One child escapes to a school for the bards.

The bards are musicians, storytellers, and magicians. But they only come to power by going to the hinterlands, where the magic is.

Meanwhile, the Basilisk rules in peace for 37 years. He has several daughters, one of which grows up learning all his magic.

Ms. McKillip brings all the elements together in a dramatic and surprising novel. It’s one of her best and that says a lot.

Review by Andy Zach on Goodreads and Amazon

Your Last Chance to Get My Free AudioBooks

New review for Zombie Turkeys on Audible! Overall 5 out of 5 stars Performance 5 out of 5 stars Story 4 out of…

Posted by Zombie Turkeys on Saturday, March 20, 2021

New review for Zombie Turkeys on Audible!

Overall 5 out of 5 stars

Performance 5 out of 5 stars

Story 4 out of 5 stars

Dumb…silly…juvenile…couldn’t put it down. Comfort food for that juvenile part of you that never quite outgrew your comic books. Just forget that it’s preposterous (after all, you were already warned by the title; what did you expect?), and go with the flow…

Andy 03-20-21 on Audible

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More Good Things About 2020 That You Didn’t Know

“More Good Things About 2020? Andy, I didn’t know ANYTHING good about 2020.”

“Then you need to read my first post, Why I’m thankful for 2020 – Author Andy Zach. When you’re done come back, then you can come back.”

“Welcome back! Let’s begin with April 2020, the worst month, until later in the year.”

More Good Things from April 2020

You need this blog post in your life:

Your Five Funniest Memes of April, Curated by Me.

Here’s the best of the bunch:

More Good Things
Wear this on your next trip to Walmart.

From my Zombie Turkeys page in April, I had this following book review:

Did you know zombie turkeys may be safely consumed by 11-year-old boys?

Posted by Andy Zach on Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Let’s close out April 2020 with one of my favorite videos by one of my favorite comic musicians:

Maybe May Was Good

More Good Things in May? You bet! My audiobook tour of Secret Supers was one.

Virtual Book Tour More Good Things
Andy Zach’s audiobook tour.

Too bad the tour is over. But lucky for you, all my audiobook excerpts are still available for listening right here. I think the links to all the additional excerpts in the blog posts all still work too. Be sure to leave a comment on these blogs. The authors love engagement, just like I do.

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All audiobooks follow, each linked to Audible.

Best Science Stories or Science Fiction More Good Things
Click to listen to free sample of Secret Supers.
Zombie Turkeys Laughter
Zombie Turkeys audiobook cover. Click to get!
July Joy My Undead Mother-in-law
Review of My Undead Mother-in-law
More Good Things
Listen to Paranormal Privateers! Click above.
More Good Things
Click and laugh at Oops!

Just June? Not Jejune, but Good as a Macaroon

I love macaroons, so June 2020 was pretty good. See this post:

More Good Things

Your Top 10 Links for June – Plus Book Deals for You

And in this post, my favorite link was:

Do you remember Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? If you do, contact me and I’ll send you a free book.

But wait! There’s more to June 2020. Besides silly memes and ridiculous videos, I also follow science.

Your 10 Best Science Updates of June

And what’s the best of best?

Happy New Year! May this coming year have more excitement and laughs.