Premonition

First of all, before I say one word about the plot or the characters, I just want to point out how freaking metal that cover is. You can't tell from the picture here on Goodreads, but the title font is embossed in raised, metallic ink, and the wooden scary face is also embossed in a faux wood grain......more

Finished my first book read of 2021 and it was a car wreck, in the sense that I could not put it down, could not look away. To be more precise, it was a multi-car pile-up on the interstate. Let's look at the plot, shall we? So the plot involves a modern institute on an island, dedicated to researchi......more

Too bad I didn't have a premonition that this book would be a dud. It's a shame because this had potential. It does not live up to any of them. It starts out well. But goes straight down hill. The crux of the plot is, a disused island that was once a Walt Disney type park for kids is now a center fo......more

Premonition has the old school sci-fi, adventure story vibe of an early H.G. Wells novel. It focuses on a shadowy group–headed by an unscrupulous sexy female scientist and her team of terminal lackeys–who set up their own island laboratory to find the secret of immortality. It’s a wild ride that inv......more

A follow-up to The Ritual that has no connection other than the sameain protagonist, this entry devolved into a weird and off-putting meld of science and the supernatural that never really seem connected to one another. Random cloning, eternal life via astrology, and a mound "demon" just never conge......more