The Book Plank

October has come and gone again so time for the Review Round-up. The past month has been very busy for me, a lot of new things have happened and of course I was gearing up for my one big event this year, the Amsterdam marathon (which I ran in 3h08min), so I had been a bit off of focus in the last weeks and couldn't really read how I usually do it, I had a break after the marathon just to get some rest and actually planned to read quite a lot but just somehow my focus was off, I will be upping the ante for the last two months of the year, want to try to get at least another 40 book through the review pipeline so fingers crossed! And just a note up front, with the holidays around the corner, the blog will be getting a break in the last weeks of December till the first weeks of January. Oh and did I tell you that I ran the marathon in 3hour and 8 minutes? A full post on me experience on running it will be up later this week (I hope). But I will stop blabbering now, here are my picks ...

The Plague Forge by Jason M. Hough, Dire Earth Cycle #3 The elevators connected Earth to the stars. The towers suppressed the deadly plague. As the final Builder event approaches, five keys will unlock their secret. After discovering the first key in the wreckage of a crashed Builder ship, Skyler Luiken and his crew follow the migrating aura towers in search of the four remaining relics. But time is running out: the survivors learn that the next Builder event will be the last, and one of the objects has already fallen into dangerous hands... As the alien Key Ship looms above Earth, and the surface below is ravaged by corrupt councils, fanatical cults and infected subhumans, the team race to retrieve the missing artefacts. Will they finally reveal the Builders’ plan? OK so first off YES the conclusion to the Dire Earth Cycle! Ever since picking up The Darwin Elevator this has been a series that I have been looking forward to read. Its action packed, has great characters ...