X Child Stars; City of Mirrors

 "X Child Stars" is one of those books you read for fun to find out what happened to the kids you used to watch on TV all those years ago. Garver was pretty adamant that not every former child star ends up going down a bad path, most end up successful, if not in show business then in some other profession.








"City of Mirrors" by Justin Cronin is the conclusion to his "Twelve" trilogy. I really enjoyed how it ended. In this one, we find out how the virus started that wiped out 7 billion people and through flashbacks we meet the man responsible for it. The survivors have had nearly 20 years without attacks by virals, so they assume they're gone and they start moving out of their safe walled cities, homesteading and establishing colonies farther and farther away. Turns out the virals were merely hiding underground, waiting for the right moment to come back. After killing off nearly everyone again, the few hundred remaining board a ship and head for a deserted island to start again while a few brave souls sail to New York to confront the man responsible for the carnage.