Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
The book is a modern wartime thriller based on the premise of cold war conflict. The large scale, land, air and sea battles are crisply described, building tension and curiosity in the reader, making it very hard to put the book down. The story is told from a handful of [...]
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Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy - Review
A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson - Review
A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
A Stir of Echoes is written in Richard Matheson’s effective and understated prose style. The dialogue is strong and it has the sound and texture of reality. It is technically a ghost story, but it is much more. There is a well-developed mystery with a subtle flow of paranoia [...]
Quiver by Peter Leonard - Review
Quiver by Peter Leonard
The author is the son of legendary crime writer Elmore Leonard - about as impressive a launch pad as you can get. Like many of his father’s books, this one is set in Detroit, and has a suitably varied cast of creepy bad guys plus a feisty heroine. Kate McCall is trying [...]
The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan - Review
The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
Is there entertainment to be had here? Oh, indeed. There is not, exactly, a surfeit of originality, but you knew that when you saw Morgan’s name on the byline. Much of the book — maybe too much — feels like he’s going back to the same old well. Morgan [...]
Anathem by Neal Stephenson - Review
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Too much of the book is dominated by lengthy dialectical debates, whose conclusions are hardly earth-shattering (if you are reading this review, I suspect you already know how to divide a rectangular cake into eight equal servings) and which do little to promote a reader’s engagement with the characters of “Anathem,” any [...]
Once Were Cops by Ken Bruen - Review
Once Were Cops: A Novel by Ken Bruen
The novel’s tone somewhat resembles “The Shield,” an FX TV series in which Michael Chiklis plays Vic Mackey, the leader of a gang of ruthless cops. But viewers of the show find themselves rooting for the anti-hero. It is impossible to develop a rooting interest in either Kebar [...]
The Last Colony by John Scalzi - Review
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
… a fast-paced political thriller laced with observant characterisation, great dialogue, and some genuinely original science.
SF & Fantasy book review: The Last Colony by John Scalzi | Books | The Guardian.
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Every Last Drop by Charlie Huston - Review
Every Last Drop: A Novel by Charlie Huston
Huston supplies terse dialogue and convincing gore in expertly pitched prose, but the beautifully cinematic nastiness doesn’t quite mask a key difficulty: Pitt’s enemies set their hate aside too easily at his appearance, and their rational behavior is at odds with the emotional intensity (and sheer implausibility) of [...]
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane - Review
The Given Day: A Novel by Dennis Lehane
What kicked ass about this novel? The dialogue. The freaking dialogue. I don’t know if Dennis Lehane records himself talking or what, but he makes his dialogue so real, so gritty, that I would just like to know how he does it.
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