Category: Books
The Raven (Philip J. Riley’s Nightmare Series book 3) by Eunice Sudak (book review)
I chose ‘The Raven’ from BearManor Media’s ‘Philip J. Riley’s Nightmare Series’ books mainly because I was familiar with this 1963 film. Just in case you don’t know, its three stars were Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff with Hazel Court, Olive Sturges and Jack Nicholson in supporting roles. It was one of the […]
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (book review).
Rin lives in a backwater town with adoptive parents who use her as free labour. She knows that the only way to get out of there and make a life of her choosing is to get accepted to the most prestigious military academy in the country, Sinegard. Yet how can she, a poorly educated commoner, […]
Queen Of Shadows (Throne Of Glass book 4) by Sarah J Maas (book review).
‘Queen Of Shadows’ is book four in the ‘Throne Of Glass’ series by Sarah J Maas, I believe this will eventually be a seven book series with other added novellas. This is her series about Celaena Sardothien. In this book, Celaena Sardothien has returned to Rifthold but, this time as her own person, no longer […]
Obsidio – The Illuminae Files part 3 by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (book review).
‘Obsidio’ is the third and final book in ‘The Illuminae Files’. Please don’t read this review unless you’ve read Illuminae’ and ‘Gemina’, or there may be spoilers and most of it probably won’t make much sense to you neither. This time, along with some of the people from books one and two, we are following […]
Where Angels Fear To Tread (a Remy Chandler novel book 4) by Thomas E Sniegoski (book review).
Remy Chandler is a detective. This is a marked change from his former life as a warrior angel and God’s right fist. Day to day, he struggles to control the angel which lives semi-dormant in his human body. His supernatural nature means he is able to handle the more out-there cases. He can move between […]
Dancing On The Head Of A Pin (a Remy Chandler novel book 2) by Thomas E Sniegoski (book review).
Angels are amongst us and, in the case of Remy ‘Remiel’ Chandler, working as a private detective in Boston. Along with the regular cases, Remy seems to have a large number of the weird and unusual to deal with. The latest case concerns missing weapons with supernatural powers. It seems someone is using divine and […]
SF author Harry Turtledove signs up with John Jarrold Literary Agency (news).
SF and Fantasy novelist Harry Turtledove has joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency for UK and Commonwealth rights. Publisher’s Weekly dubbed Turtledove “The Master of Alternate History”. Within that genre, he is known for creating a variety of alternative history novel counterfactuals, such as survival of the Byzantine Empire or an alien invasion in the […]
3 Of A Perfekt Pear by Daniel C. Smith (ebook review).
This little book contains three stories by Daniel C. Smith, all of which were first published in ‘The Fifth Di…’. Nomadic Delirium Press has an enlightened policy of putting out these one author collections so that readers who like the writer can garner a bunch of his stuff cheap. I like Daniel C. Smith. As […]
After Atlas (Planetfall book 2) by Emma Newman (book review).
‘Planetfall’ was a fabulously engaging novel of deep characterisation and otherworldy intrigue that left me highly impressed. ‘After Atlas’ and ‘Before Mars’ are both dubbed as ‘Planetfall’ novels, as they are set in the same universe, but the stories are seemingly unconnected other than a shared background and references to the departure of Atlas, the […]
The Tulku Of Titan And The Terror Of Titan by Mike Morgan (ebook review).
‘The Tulku Of Titan And The Terror Of Titan’ is a short book so I won’t have a lot to say. I picked it up because I have read and enjoyed Mike Morgan’s stories in various magazines. This batch of two stories was put out by Nomadic Delirium Press, who bundle up works previously published […]
