Cradle

3.5 stars I keep telling myself that I'm tired of these apocalyptic virus stories… but yet I keep reading them. I was pulled into this one as it pulled on my emotions as a parent. There were some particularly hard sections to read at the beginning that have really stuck with me. That being said, I fel......more

Dracon, the first novel from C A Cascabel ruled and owned. It was awesome and adds to epic fantasy. Cradle is a different kind of book. Biological thriller might be called. But it is a lot more than that. The familiar " Dracon" writing is here. Fast paced when it needs, focused in other situations, g......more

This is not the type of book I usually read, but I had loved C.A. Caskabel's first novel (which was such a doorstoper it had to be split in 4 books), Drakon, and I decided to give this book a chance. I was not disappointed. I expected an ambitious novel from the author and got it in spades: Cradle is,......more

A real page turner. Such a pro-feminist voice from a male author! Cudos to Mr Caskabel for his imagination, insight and good writing.......more

I almost DNF'ed this book (actually I did, but felt compelled to return to it) and that would have been a tragedy because I loved it. The book wasn't perfect. In fact, the misuse of hundreds of prepositions made me slightly anxious but not enough to stop reading, at least once I accepted it as a wei......more