ReviewBooks
The Art Of Solo: A Star Wars Story by Phil Szostak (book review).
With the dust having settled on ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ and the franchise’s own fandom becoming entangled in a Sarlacc pit of…
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June 2018
May 2018
ReviewFantasy
Reign of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy book 3) by Angus Watson (book review).
‘Reign Of Iron’ is the third and final part of Angus Watson’s ‘Age Of Iron trilogy’, a blood and guts soaked fantasy series…
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Clash Of Iron (The Iron Age Trilogy book 2) by Angus Watson (book review).
It’s a weird thing seeing something you wrote quoted in the blurb for a book, even if not attributed to me and just…
ReviewBooks
Space Helmet For A Cow – The Mad, True Story Of Doctor Who – Volume 2: 1990-2013 by Paul Kirkley (book review).
The return of ‘Doctor Who’ is in many ways a remarkable thing. Today, it’s tempting to forget just how unlikely the show’s comeback…
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Running Through Corridors – Volume 1: The 60s by Robert Shearman and Toby Hadoke (book review).
‘Running Through Corridors: Volume 1: The 60s’ is the first volume of Rob Shearman and Toby Hadoke’s correspondence as they attempt to watch…
April 2018
ReviewFantasy
The Mabinogion Tetralogy by Evangeline Walton (book review).
‘The Mabinogion’ is the cornerstone of Welsh myth comprising of a collection of tales that fuse folklore, culture and Arthurian romance. They are…
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The Shannara Chronicles: The Elfstones Of Shannara (book 1) by Terry Brooks (book review).
There can’t be many fantasy novels with the MTV logo on it, but here I am looking at the 2015 re-release of ‘The…
ReviewFantasy
The Annotated Sword Of Shannara (Shannara book 1) by Terry Brooks (book review).
It was with a great deal of trepidation that I approached Terry Brooks’ ‘The Sword Of Shannara’. It was once described by the…
March 2018
ReviewFantasy
Stranger Of Tempest (Book 1 of The God Fragments) by Tom Lloyd (book review).
Lynx is a warrior abandoned by his own nation and picked up by a band of mercenaries who have been sent on an…
February 2018
ReviewAnime/manga
Attack On Titan – Season 2 (2018) (Blu-ray anime series review).
‘Attack On Titan’ is the anime based series on the phenomenally successful debut manga by artist Hajime Isayama, has now had its second…
January 2018
ReviewFantasy
Age Of Myth (book one of The Legends Of the First Empire) by Michael J. Sullivan (book review).
The author Michael J Sullivan has built a successful career out of the ‘Riyaria’ fantasy series of books, nine books in total, but…
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The Art Of Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Phil Szostak, foreword by Rian Johnson (book review).
Please note, there are mild spoilers below for ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’, you have been warned! As the dust (salt?) settles on…