To Read List for 2020

My to read list for 2020. I hope to accomplish reading at least 50% of this list in 2020.

Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)	Corey, James S.A. *
Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)	Connolly, John *
Chinglish	Cheung, Sue
The Remaking	Chapman, Clay McLeod *
The City Among the Stars	Carsac, Francis
Through the Woods	Carroll, Emily
When I Arrived at the Castle	Carroll, Emily
Out of Skin	Carroll, Emily
Omega Days (Omega Days, #1)	Campbell, John L. *
Slashed (Oil Apocalypse, #1)	Cadle, Lou *
Toil & Trouble	Burroughs, Augusten *
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me	Brubaker, Ed
The October Country	Bradbury, Ray
Day by Day Armageddon (Day by Day Armageddon,#1)	Bourne, J.L. *
Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1)	Blake, Kendare *
Brains: A Zombie Memoir	Becker, Robin *
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)	Bardugo, Leigh *
Elevator Pitch	Barclay, Linwood *
The Supervillain and Me	Banas, Danielle *
The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1)	Arden, Katherine *
Death Warmed Over (Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, #1)	Anderson, Kevin J. *
Rules for Vanishing	Marshall, Kate Alice *
Zombie CSU	Maberry, Jonathan *
Dead of Night (Dead of Night, #1)	Maberry, Jonathan *
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)	Maas, Sarah J. *
Night Watch	Lukyanenko, Sergei
Area 187: Almost Hell	Lowther, Eric R. *
The Bone Houses	Lloyd-Jones, Emily *
The Stories You Tell (Roxane Weary, #3)	Lepionka, Kristen *
Braineater Jones	Kozeniewski, Stephen *
The Twisted Ones	Kingfisher, T.
Insignia (Insignia, #1)	Kincaid, S.J. *
The Empress (The Diabolic, #2)	Kincaid, S.J. *
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants	Kimmerer, Robin Wall
A Curse So Dark and Lonely	Kemmerer, Brigid *
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth	Kaku, Michio
Eighth Grave After Dark (Charley Davidson, #8)	Jones, Darynda *
Over the Line	Irvin, Kelly *
Dark Side of the Spoon: The Rock Cookbook	Inniss, Joe
404 Ink, 1: Error	Ink, 404
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)	Hutchison, Dot
Full Throttle	Hill, Joe *
Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)	Henry, Christina *
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires	Hendrix, Grady *
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary	Henderson, Caspar
The Undead: The First Seven Days (The Undead #1-7 )	Haywood, R.R. *
The Gone-Away World	Harkaway, Nick *
A Cosmology of Monsters	Hamill, Shaun *
The Grown-Ass Women's Club: Be Awesome. Earn Badges.	Haggerty, Meredith
Blood for Blood (Wolf By Wolf, #2)	Graudin, Ryan *
Outpost (Donovan Trilogy #1)	Gear, W. Michael
The Graveyard Book	Gaiman, Neil *
Death: The High Cost of Living	Gaiman, Neil *
Snow, Glass, Apples	Gaiman, Neil *
Upright Women Wanted	Gailey, Sarah *
Stone Cold Heart	Frear, Caz
Conspiracy Game (GhostWalkers, #4)	Feehan, Christine *
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1)	Elison, Meg *
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse (The Thorne Chronicles, #1)	Eason, K. *
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon	Dispenza, Joe
Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brujas, #1)	Córdova, Zoraida *
Wanderers	Wendig, Chuck *
The Rosewater Insurrection (The Wormwood Trilogy, #2)	Thompson, Tade *
Docile	Szpara, K.M. *
Godblind (Godblind, #1)	Stephens, Anna *
Rocket's Red Glare: A WWII Era Alternate History Novel	Stein, Cy *
See Jane Die (Stacy Killian, #1; The Malones, #2)	Spindler, Erica *
Extinction Shadow (Extinction Cycle: Dark Age #1)	Smith, Nicholas Sansbury *
They Do the Same Things Different There	Shearman, Robert
The Long Way Down (Daniel Faust, #1)	Schaefer, Craig *
Head On (Lock In, #2)	Scalzi, John *
Skyward (Skyward, #1)	Sanderson, Brandon *
Lock Every Door	Sager, Riley *
Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between (Rhiannon's Law, #1)	Saare, J.A. *
The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)	Ryan, Carrie *
Starhammer (The Vang, #1)	Rowley, Christopher
Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues (White Trash Zombie, #2)	Rowland, Diana *
Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)	Roberts, Nora *
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)	Reynolds, Alastair
A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4)	Raybourn, Deanna *
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts	Racculia, Kate *
The Poison Thread	Purcell, Laura *
The Toll	Priest, Cherie *
Melt (Melt, #1)	Pike, J.J.
Disappearing Earth	Phillips, Julia *
Married with Zombies (Living with the Dead, #1)	Petersen, Jesse *
Becoming	Obama, Michelle *
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)	Muir, Tamsyn *
The Starless Sea	Morgenstern, Erin *
Gods of Jade and Shadow	Moreno-Garcia, Silvia *
After the Flood	Montag, Kassandra *
The Remaining (The Remaining, #1)	Molles, D.J. *
The Silent Patient	Michaelides, Alex *
Domain of the Dead (Domain of the Dead #1)	McKinnon, Iain *
Dead City (Dead World, #1)	McKinney, Joe *
Sparrow Hill Road (Ghost Roads, #1)	McGuire, Seanan *
The Other Wife	McGowan, Claire *
Uncanny Collateral (Valkyrie Collections, #1)	McClellan, Brian *
Subhuman (Unit 51 #1)	McBride, Michael *
The Reign of the Kingfisher	Martinson, T.J.
Monster	Martinez, A. Lee *

Essex Colony by Lia Cooper

Thank you to NetGalley and NineStar Press for the opportunity to read and and give an honest review of #EssexColony by Lia Cooper.

On Essex Prime, there have been no reports or communication with the colonists who are currently living there. It has been over 200 days since the last report.

Doctor Soran Ingram, an artificial intelligence with a psychology education, is sent with a team of others to investigate what happened and hope to find survivors. When the team arrives they find most of the colonists dead and one alien, that Soran knows. As Soran figures out what has happened, it seems history might be repeating itself. 

The story starts out very strong. I enjoyed the writing, the narration and the plot. However, the ending happened so fast it left me feeling cheated for a better ending. This is a novella, so it is expected to be a shorter story, but I didn't feel like it was a complete story. Overall, I would want a better understanding as to what exactly happened. What was it about the planet that made the colonists and rescue team act the way they did? I don't understand it completely.