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Books in the Bathroom
Today finds me off work, sick as a dog. My little son, carrier of toddler-bugs a-plenty, and yesterday’s Olympic vomiting champion, is all recovered today and has merrily gone off to nursery. Why do...
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Review: Zenn Scarlett, Christian Schoon
“Zenn Scarlett is a bright, determined, occasionally a-little-too-smart-for-her-own-good 17-year-old girl training hard to become an exoveterinarian. That means she’s specializing in the treatment of...
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Library Haul
Just a small one for me this week, as I need to concentrate more on Project Wilt next week and want to take it a bit easy on the long-suffering TBR pile; Graphic novels and I don’t always get on, but...
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Review: House of night: Legacy
Until recently, Zoey Redbird was an average high-school student worrying about grades, boys, and breakouts. But priorities have a way of changing when you’re Marked as a vampyre, enroll in the vampyre...
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Not a review: Lament, Maggie Stiefvater
Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a painfully shy but prodigiously gifted musician. She’s about to find out she’s also a cloverhand—one who can see faeries. Deirdre finds herself infatuated with a...
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Project Wilt; Unexpected Progress
It’s been a great weekend on the writing front. I think that’s a first! Everything may be crumbling around my ears in the workplace, but at least this week hasn’t been a total loss. Far from it in...
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Some thoughts on bloggers, publishers and biased reviews
So I’ve been thinking, over the last week or so..(not always a good idea!) I spend a LOT of time reading for this site, much as I did for its long-running predecessor, and I enjoy it, I really do. But...
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Review: Monster Blood Tattoo; Foundling, D M Cornish
“Set in the world of the Half-Continent—a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols—the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered...
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Not a review: Lonely Werewolf Girl, Martin Millar
Obviously I can’t review a book I’ve not finished, and I didn’t get very far into this one at all. Every time my innards are cheering for a werewolf novel to be amazing, it never fails to let me...
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Cover Twins?
A little too close for comfort these two, surely? In a genre so bursting at the seams with carbon copies, the covers are now looking as indistinguishable as the plots. I should probably point out...
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Project Wilt Update & Game of Thrones re-read
It’s been another promising weekend on the Project Wilt front! Which came as a huge surprise to me as the rest of this week was something of a disaster. I had four chapters to revise, and was trying to...
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Impeccable Timing!
Naturally, having said that I’m not going to be involved much with Advance Reviews at the moment, this little lot landed in my mailbox today. Solaris, Pocket, and Indies are cool with me, and I’ll...
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Happily continuing to accept ARCs from, and only from..
Today I had a good look through all my past reviews from my old site, a rummage through a lot of emails and another look at the sites & accounts that have aroused my suspicions recently, and I’ve...
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Doctor Sleep
The thought of this kept me going at work today when I was about ready to throw in the towel. I absolutely cannot wait to get my paws on this one!! I can’t embed the snazzy interactive image on here,...
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James Herbert
I wanted to write a post about James Herbert earlier, but is the first chance I’ve had to really sit down and think about it. It’s so sad that he’s gone. He was our very own Stephen King. Like...
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Interested in Indie/Self-Pub reviews?
Have a look at http://www.theindiefantastic.com/ And if you like what you see, the first three authors to email in get free reviews across the board.
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Some Indie News!
Whilst I’m not currently accepting any mainstream titles for review, if you’re at all interested in Indie & Self-Pub titles you’ll find me reviewing over at www.theindiefantastic.com. Would love to...
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Some Updated Indie News!
Having had a week to iron out the initial wrinkles, I’ve now made some changes over at www.theindiefantastic.com. I can now offer a proofreading service for Indie & Self-Published authors for an...
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Review: Monster Blood Tattoo; Foundling, D M Cornish
“Set in the world of the Half-Continent—a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols—the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered...
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Fans of James Treadwell’s Advent are going to be delighted with the second in the series, Anarchy. Corporal “Goose” Maculloch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police isn’t expecting much from her new...
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