Raven: Blood Eye by Giles Kristian
While I enjoyed reading ‘Raven’, I couldn’t escape the feeling that I had read it before. Obviously I hadn’t, what with the book not being out until February next year, but there were elements that seemed overly familiar i.e. the archetypal ‘boy with a mysterious past who turns out to [...]
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Raven: Blood Eye by Giles Kristian - Review
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson - Review
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, Book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
‘The Well of Ascension’ improves upon what is set out in ‘Mistborn’ and promises good things to come from ‘The Hero of Ages’, a series that is so far proving to be well worth picking up.
Eight and a Quarter out of Ten
Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review: ‘The [...]
The Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker - Review
The Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker
Hood is a beacon of morality in a desert of corruption in which drugs seem to own almost everyone’s soul from Los Angeles to Mexico. The story line is fast-paced but driven by the throwback hero who obsesses with a need to know whether Mr. Wonderful was a bad or [...]
Night of Thunder by Stephen Hunter - Review
Night of Thunder: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel by Stephen Hunter
Night of Thunder is not one of Stephen Hunter’s best, but it isn’t bad either. If you enjoy a wild and bigger-than-life thriller that flies straight, hard, and fast with a hero that can hold his own in a fight—a throw back to the old [...]
Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell - Review
Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
If Bernard Cornwell was born to write one book, this is it. No other historical novelist has acquired such a mastery of the minutiae of warfare in centuries past. No one else could hope to take Shakespeare’s Henry V, strip it of its rhetoric and tell the unvarnished truth about the Battle [...]
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 Five Warriors by Matthew Reilly - Synopsis
The Five Warriors by Matthew Reilly
Having left readers desperately hanging at the end of his action-packed adventure, THE SIX SACRED STONES, Matthew Reilly returns with his biggest and fastest adventure yet, THE FIVE GREATEST WARRIORS.
The action begins right where THE SIX SACRED STONES left off…with our hero, Jack West Jr, falling into a fathomless abyss [...]
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti - Review
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
Hannah Tinti’s first novel, “The Good Thief,” opens at a Catholic orphanage in New England, where the statue of St. Anthony in the courtyard can’t help the boys recover what they’ve lost. Ren, the book’s hero, is missing not only his family but also his left hand, the skin mysteriously [...]
FRESH KILLS by Bill Loehfelm - Review
Fresh Kills by Bill Loehfelm
Bill Loehfelm’s first novel opens with his troubled hero, John Sanders Jr., telling us, “I don’t often answer my door with a gun in my hand.” But he does just that, because someone is banging on the door, he lives in a tough part of Staten Island, and he’s naked in [...]
Ender In Exile by Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel.
At the close of Ender’s Game, Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more [...]
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