Miles Watson is best known for his Cage Life series, consisting of Cage Life and Knuckle Down, which centres around cage fighting and crime both drawn from Watson's real life experiences, (before any reader gets the wrong idea, he was on the law enforcement side of matters). Cage Life itself is an award winning novel,... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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,... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
