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Hmm. I seem to have neglected this thread for a bit.
Since my previous post, I've read a few more books: Under a Graveyard Sky (zombie apocalypse) by John Ringo, which I ended up enjoying more than I'd expected; Poison Princess (YA supernatural/paranormal apocalypse) by Kresley Cole, which I also ended up enjoying more than I'd expected; The Pirate's Wish (YA fantasy - magic, pirates, assassins, romance) by Cassandra Rose Clarke, which I enjoyed just like I'd expected to; and finally Last Scene Alive, the seventh in Charlaine Harris' Aurora Teagarden cosy-ish mystery series, which was enjoyable, but not in any way outstanding.
Last night I picked up The Explorer by James Smythe but didn't get very far into it yet (it's a paperback! eek! I keep forgetting just how much I always disliked reading paperbacks, even when there was no other choice - they're just so cumbersome to hold open).
It seems potentially interesting so far - it's a near-future (I think?) science fiction story that starts off with the only survivor of a deep-space mission talking about how everyone else died (this is pretty much what is in the book blurb/description, so not really a spoiler), but I'm assuming there's more to the story than that, considering I gather it's the first book in a series, and while a lone survivor narrating his lonely days on spaceship might, maybe, at a stretch, work for one book, I can't really imagine it's all that there is.... I've done my best to avoid spoilers beyond what I already knew from the blurb!
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