The heresy revealed Here we are again. Galaxy in Flames is book three in the five hundred book long series The Horus Heresy. Ok, five hundred books might be exaggeration, the current count is fifty four, but I’m convinced that they’re being written faster than I’m able to read them. They may as well be infinite. I’m only on book
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The Heresy Takes Root This is the second book in the umpteen books long Horus Heresy series from the Black Library. The review of the first book can be seen here. Following on from Dan Abnett’s excellent opener of Horus Rising was always going to be a challenge and, for the most part, McNeill’s entry in the series lives up
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Reviewed by Hannah Vernon I instantly admired Breedlove’s character-driven narrative when I began to read ‘Screamcatcher’. Characters are such a pivotal part of the novel, and the point from which the reader can access the world, and so I was delighted when I found that, despite knowing little about the Native American folklore underpinning the novel, through the nature of
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Reviewed by Hannah Vernon When beginning a new story, I see it has a new chapter in life, for it offers a new experience, a new persona, a perspective to gleam from foreign, yet soon to be familiar eyes, a journey to be undertaken not only in mind but in heart that will linger long once the final pages are
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Reviewed by Hannah Vernon Contest. A vicious sounding word, carrying connotations of conflict, destruction. And that was how I found this novel to be. The reader is introduced immediately to Theo, a stowaway, confined to a trunk in the “frigid mountain”s, escaped from Rigol but confined instantly to a carriage and the company of Lorsik, clad only in thin garments
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The seeds of heresy are sown What have I started here? As readers, we are used to embarking on a new series with an ominous mountain of books standing between us and the conclusion of the epic tale we have started. Those people who came late to A Song of Ice and Fire will know the feeling. Those of us
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Wolves is the first part of C. Gockel’s I Bring The Fire series, initially a trilogy but now extended to eight full releases and several novellas. As is usual for self-published series of this length, you can pick up this introduction to the series for free, as I did. Wolves tells a story with many familiar elements. The main character
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This book is the first in a series of BBC tie-in novels known as “The 8th Doctor Adventures”, commissioned and published in the interim years between the show ending in 1989 and being relaunched in 2005. The series of books ran alongside another set of releases known as “The Past Doctor Adventures.” For both of these, the clue is in
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Wow. What a book. This wasn’t my first time reading Dune but, dear God, it is still great. I can’t think of many books that operate on the same scale as Frank Herbert’s epic. Galactic conflict, formation of religions, prophetic visions, political machinations. All encompassed in a classic heroic coming-of-age story for the protagonist, Paul Atreides.
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Stassi is a ‘runner’ – essentially a thief that travels to the past and acquires goodies the affluent in her present desire. The story is primarily set in 1925 France where she and a partner have been sent to obtain an unpublished manuscript. They must infiltrate the author’s social circles by drinking at parties and attending plays until they gain
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