Weekly Roundup

This week’s reading started out great, with me finishing two books and starting too more. I also put out three blog posts! But now I’ve got a nasty cold that has left me feeling rundown and interrupting my sleep, so there might be a rough week’s reading ahead. Read on to find out the details!

Mini Review: Clay’s Ark

In a frightening near future, an alien disease is poised to become a devastating global epidemic—unless someone can stop it

Blake Maslin and his two daughters are driving to Flagstaff when bandits swarm their car. At gunpoint, the marauders kidnap one of Blake’s children, promising to keep her safe in return for medical care. Warily, the doctor goes with them, not realizing that he has just taken the first step down a terrifying path that will consume his life.

The gunmen take him deep into the desert, to a colony of people infected with a gruesome alien disease. It causes weakness, sallow skin, and birth defects so horrible that the children who suffer them cannot rightly be called human. The victims have quarantined themselves in the desert lest their illness spread and doom mankind. But as their willingness to accept isolation falters, Blake becomes the last hope for the survival of an uncontaminated Earth.

Clay’s Ark by Octavia Butler is the third book chronologically in her four part Patternist series, although no characters continue over from that series, barring a singular mention. In that way it can be read as a standalone, although it hits on some of the same themes and the other books. Click ahead to read the rest of this brief review.

Weekly Roundup

This week I’ve finished four books and posted one review (now that’s a worrying ratio)! It’s been a good week for reading, and I feel energised for my reading week ahead. Read on to get a roundup for the week and find out what I’m reading!

Weekly Roundup

This week I’ve finished two books, posted two reviews, and started two more! Read on to get a roundup for the week and find out what I’m reading!