Deadfall by T. Graham

Deadfall: The Fallen Forest

by T. Graham

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Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘1/2
Genre - Dystopian, Science Fiction
Format - Paperback
Pages - 324

*Blurb* 

Trees begin falling in the American Northeast, only a few at first, but a building storm promises a disaster of biblical proportions. The government is helpless to stop the carnage as the world watches the Northeast reduced to a tangle of tree limbs and branches.
Roads are impassable and thousands are trapped in damaged rural homes without electricity and communication with the outside world. Flooding from obstructed waterways threatens lives and property as water cuts off escape roads and food supplies are running out fast...


*Review*

When I was contact by the author to do a review, my interest was peaked when he told me that the parts of the story took place in the area I live in. I figured it was going to be the Adirondacks or some well known place like that. When the actual town was mentioned I was shocked and it made those parts of the books not only easy to picture, but it was almost like I  could "see" what was going on.

Imagine waking up to trees being knocked over by the slightest breeze with no explanation. Would you make out ok or do you, like myself, live in an area that is mostly wooded? Imagine your home surrounded by trees, that once fallen, cause massive flooding from backed up streams and rivers. What would you do first? Would you try to ration the food you have and wait for help or would your try everything in your power to get out without knowing if there's any place to go?
The book jumps back and forth between characters each dealing with their own tree situation. Some trying to get out, some trying to get in to save their family or help others that may be trapped.

As much as I enjoyed the book, I feel liked it jumped from character to character too quickly. There wasn't enough time to form any kind of bond with them because you were only given a few pages at a time. And while I wasn't given time to form a bond, it seemed like the characters formed them too quickly. I know that people tend to get closer to each other when it seems things might be ending, but these characters got really close.

The Dinner List by Rececca Serle

The Dinner List

by Rebecca Serle

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 ARC - Release Date September 11, 2018

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘📘📘
Genre -Romantic Comedy, Coming of Age, Metaphysical
Format - Paperback
Pages - 273

*Blurb* 
“We’ve been waiting for an hour.” That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That’s the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed.”
At one point or another, we’ve all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we’d like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? These are the questions Rebecca Serle contends with in her utterly captivating novel, THE DINNER LIST, a story imbued with the same delightful magical realism as One Day, and the life-changing romance of Me Before You.
When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn. As the appetizers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation begins, it becomes clear that there’s a reason these six people have been gathered together.

*Review*

Who would your 5 be?

The book starts out as Sabrina finds herself sitting down with the 5 people she wanted to have dinner with....dead or alive. The chapters go back and forth between the dinner itself and Sabrina's life with the guests. It is very easy to follow along with and the chapters are very short which I prefer.

Though I don't find this book to have suspense, twists or romance.....I can't stop reading it. I am curious what will happen when dinner is over. The main part of her life that is being discussed during dinner is her relationship with Tobia. Is this all a dream, will anyone remember what happened or will time reverse so that they can fix any errors they made in their life (ok, I guess you could say it has suspense). There were definitely some situations that I was not expecting and I really felt for Sabrina. The whole time I was reading and hoping that they were going to be able to change the past and wind up in a better future after dinner. I was

The only thing I didn't quite understand was why Conrad was there. Maybe I missed it, but I don't see what made him important enough in her to for her to choose him. Still it recommend this book. It isn't like any other than I've read. Props to the Author.

The Dead House by Billy O'Callaghan

The Dead House

by Billy O'Callaghan

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Rating (1-5) - 📘📘
Genre - Ghosts, Horror, Supernatural
Format - Hardcover
Pages - 202

*Blurb* 
This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital and, after she’s healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit. On the rugged west coast of Ireland, perched on a wild cliff side, she spies the shell of a cottage that dates back to Great Famine and decides to buy it. When work on the house is done, she invites her dealer to come for the weekend to celebrate along with a couple of women friends, one of whom will become his wife. On the boozy last night, the other friend pulls out an Ouija board. What sinister thing they summon, once invited, will never go.
Ireland is a country haunted by its past. In Billy O'Callaghan's hands, its terrible beauty becomes a force of inescapable horror that reaches far back in time, before the Famine, before Christianity, to a pagan place where nature and superstition are bound in an endless knot.


*Review*
The Dead House was a dead book to me. I was quite disappointed throughout the whole book. It start off with the main character, Mike, describing Ireland in great detail. I'm not saying that explaining the land wasn't important, but I don't think it needed to take that much of the book before it really started to get interesting. Then it was only interesting for a few pages before it went back to Mike describing the land, his life, feelings and all that. It did pick back up again toward the ending only to, once more, last a few pages. The book was a slight love story, but without all the sappy romance that some books have with a slight twist of ghosts.

I would've given only a 1 book rating but instead gave 2 because I do want to give credit to the detail that the author uses to describe the scenery and feelings he has, but I think that he spent too much time doing that and not enough time on the ghost parts that could've made the story awesome.

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