Adam Johnson Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/adam-johnson/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:05:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Adam Johnson Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/adam-johnson/ 32 32 38398750 Battle of the Titans: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/battle-of-the-titans-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/battle-of-the-titans-mini-reviews/#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:35:51 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19551 No battle and no giants here. Instead, I’ve got quick reviews of two chunkster books I read this fall. Chunkster being the technical term for big-ass, over 500 pages each, tomes. Both are set in prehistoric times and are the kind of books you’ll either settle into or set aside.   I’ve read a lot […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/03/battle-of-the-titans-mini-reviews/feed/ 0 19551 Darker: The Orphan Master’s Son https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/the-orphan-masters-son/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/the-orphan-masters-son/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 07:25:46 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1700 By its very nature dystopian fiction is dark but Pulitzer Prize winning The Orphan Master’s Son is not technically dystopian. It is set in North Korea, which exists (as we are all too aware recently) and yet the events and lives of the characters are fantastical in their danger, impoverishment, and deprivation. The protagonist is […]

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