Many Worlds, One Li-Bro-rian

Parker, N. (2018) Seafire. New York, NY: Penguin Random House LLC On the Bullet Seas, the only thing you can trust is your family.  For Captain Caledonia Styx, that refers to her crew, her sisters.  She had another family once, but that was taken away by Aric Athair bullets.  Her family was murdered, her ship burned, and she was left for dead.  She didn't die though.  Instead she grew stronger, rebuilt her ship, and raised an all girl crew to sail it. Now her new family is being threatened, but this time she's going to give it right back. I absolutely loved this book!  I laughed, I cried, I got angry, I felt tense, and I lusted for adventure.  This book took me for a ride that I'm not ready to get off from.  I can tell you I'll be checking out the sequel, Steeltide, as soon as I can.  The characters are engaging and the setting is so interesting.  It' s sort of a post apocalyptic world, in which those errors of the previous civiliza...

Taking a short break from the Bluebonnets, I decided to read a more adult level book from one of my favorite authors, Michael Crichton. Crichton, M. (2017) Dragon Teeth . New York, NY: Harper Collins If William Johnson seems to be nothing more than a rich, spoiled, Yale college student, that's because he is.  However, a bet with a fellow will have him traveling to still wild west of the late 1800s, and it will change him forever.  He signs up on an expedition to find dinosaur bones, but what he finds is  a whole lot of trouble. Michael Crichton has an amazing way of blending fact with fiction, reality with fantasy, that really gets your mind wondering "could this be real?".  Dragon Teeth is no exception.  Crichton does so much research into his novels, they always have a factual feel to them.  That feel makes the adventure within that much more thrilling.  If you like the wild west, paleontology, or just a good adventure, this could be the book...