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The Red Knight? Early night for me then!
Thanks to the lovely folk at Orbit I have a review copy of The Red Knight to sink my teeth into tonight, so that’s me away to bed with some Good Epic Company, which is just the way I like it “Twenty...
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Seven Princes, as bad as all that?
So I remember this one being completely slated when it came out, but I see the second in the series is due out this month. Was it really as bad as all that? I’m curious to find out. From the blurb it...
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Review: The Red Knight, Miles Cameron
“Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern’s jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing...
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Review: The Vampire Shrink, Lynda Hilburn
“Kismet Knight, PhD, doesn’t believe in the paranormal. She especially doesn’t believe in vampires, but she begins to wise up when she is introduced to a handsome man named Devereux who claims to be...
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Books Received
A small, but perfectly formed little bundle of bookness has arrived this week: Many thanks to the ever lovely Quercus Books, and the I’m sure equally lovely Pocket Books for the review copies. You’ve...
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Review: Babylon Steel, Gaie Sebold
“Babylon Steel, ex-sword-for-hire, ex-other things, runs the best brothel in Scalentine; city of many portals, two moons, and a wide variety of races, were-creatures, and religions, not to mention the...
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Review: A Conspiracy of Alchemists, Liesel Schwarz
“When dirigible pilot Elle Chance accepts an unusual cargo in Paris she finds herself in the middle of a deadly war between the Alchemists and Warlocks. The Alchemists will stop at nothing to acquire...
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And now for something completely different
I’m not big on Horror these days. I used to be, when I was kid. In fact, for about four years or so it was all I’d read. Now though, the only time I dip into the Horror section is where zombies are...
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Books of The Shaper, John R Fultz
I owe Orbit Books a lovely big cuddle for hooking me up with a review copy of the second novel in Fultz’s Books of The Shaper series, Seven Kings. I’m so behind with my reading at the moment, but I...
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Review: Trickster, Jeff Somers
“From master storyteller Jeff Somers comes a gritty new urban fantasy series starring a pair of unlikely heroes: low-life blood mages caught up in a violent scheme not of their own making. Lem has...
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Review: World War Z, Max Brooks
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years,...
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Wheel of Time indecision
Over the last few weeks, with all the anticipation over the release of the final Wheel of Time novel, I’ve been dithering with the idea of making another attempt to tackle the series. I’ve tried a...
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Review: Blood Therapy, Lynda Hilburn
“Kismet Knight knows exactly how to handle her clients, but when it comes to her love-life, she’s on less steady ground. That was until she met master vampire Devereux, an 800-year-old hunk, who not...
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Wheels, Satan and Crescent Moons
I wanted to drop in quickly with the news that I’ve decided to take the plunge and re-attack the Wheel of Time series. That’ll all be kicking off shortly, just waiting on a colleague of mine to unearth...
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Review: Age of Satan, James Lovegrove
“In another e-novella exclusive from Solaris, James Lovegrove adds to his New York Times bestselling Pantheon series – which has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide – where gods are made real and men...
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Review: The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater
““There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead...
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A Natural History of Dragons
It’s almost time for the release of Marie Brennan’s A Natural History of Dragons, which gives me the perfect excuse to post some of the gorgeous artwork that goes with it, courtesy of the ever awesome...
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BRB, Writing Book!
I wanted to drop in with a quick explanation for the lack of fresh reviews just now. They’re piling up, and will be released into the wild next week sometime Right now I’m having a concentrated attack...
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Military SF?
I’ll be honest, I’m not massively into SF, and of the SF I *am* a little bit into, Military SF rarely features. But after my experience with James Lovegrove’s Age of Satan I finally got around to...
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Review: The Farm, Emily McKay
Life was different in the Before: before vampires began devouring humans in a swarm across America; before the surviving young people were rounded up and quarantined. These days, we know what those...
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