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Leonard is still nursing the injuries he sustained in the duo's last wild undertaking when he learns that his Uncle Chester has passed. Hap is of course going to be there for his best friend, and when the two are cleaning up Uncle Chester's dilapidated house, they uncover a dark little secret beneath the house's rotting floor boards—a small skeleton buried in a trunk. Hap wants to call the police. Leonard, being a black man in east Texas, persuades him this is not a good idea, and together they set out to clear Chester's name on their own. The only things standing in their way is a houseful of felons, a vicious killer, and possibly themselves.
This is the second in the Hap and Leonard series and I think I enjoyed it even more from the first. Since all of the characters were pretty well established the story got started much quicker than in the last book. The only slight problem with this one was that I didn't find it too much of the mystery, I could see the plot twist coming but that said it was still very enjoyable.
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In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
This was one of Matt's wild card recommendations for me because he thought I might maybe like it. And he was spot on. Although I like science fiction this isn't the sort of book I'd normally pick up and I'd been putting off reading it after glancing at the back cover. I did find it a little hard going but I really enjoyed it. It felt like more of a crime novel once you'd got over the whole 'consciousness is stored and so can be transferred to different bodies'. I'm not sure if I'll read the rest of the trilogy as they seem more military but I certainly liked this one.
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WARNING: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR. You will dismiss this as ridiculous fearmongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fearmongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection-the creature secretes a chemical into the brain to stimulate skepticism, in order to prevent you from seeking a cure. That's just as well, since the "cure" involves learning what a chain saw tastes like. You can't feel the spider, because it controls your nerve endings. You can't see it, because it decides what you see. You won't even feel it when it breeds. And it will breed. So what happens when your family, friends, and neighbors get mind-controlling skull spiders? We're all about to find out.
Matt surprised me with this last week and I was so excited. John Dies at the End was one of my favourite books this year so I was excited to get stuck into this, the sequel. It also felt right that this would be my last book of the challenge. It certainly didn't disappoint. Just as strange as the first one and just as addictive, I didn't want to put it down. I loved it, maybe even more than the first one.
So that's it. I completed it. 50 books this year. I'm really proud of myself and I'll definitely be doing this again next year as I've discovered so many different books. I've learnt a lot about the style of writing I enjoy and, equally important, what I don't. I'm going to continue to do updates for the remainder of the year because I want to keep in the habit of doing them and I'm not going to stop reading.
As always you can keep up with what I'm currently reading on my Goodreads page or look at all of the past weeks of the challenge here.
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