ReviewScifi
Halo: The Thursday War (book 2) by Karen Traviss (book review).
Taken from the cover: ‘A divided, warring Sangheili nation is no threat to a resurgent Earth and its interests. But even as the…
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Karen Reay-Davies
September 2014
June 2014
ReviewFantasy
The Art Of How To Train Your Dragon 2 by Linda Sunshine (book review).
‘Animation is an art form that begins and ends with the imagination.’ – Linda Sunshine author of ‘The Art Of How To Train…
May 2014
ReviewFantasy
Not Flesh Nor Feather (an Eden Moore story book 3) by Cheri Priest (book review).
Taken from the cover: ‘The disappearance of homeless men foraging through trash at night and nuisance skater kids rolling their boards along the…
February 2014
ReviewFantasy
Wings To The Kingdom (an Eden Moore story book 2) by Cheri Priest (book review).
Taken from the cover: ‘The fields at Chickamauga, Georgia — America’s oldest national military park — claimed thirty-five thousand casualties during the Civil…
January 2014
ReviewScifi
Love In The Time Of The Fridges by Tim Scott (book review).
Taken from the cover: ‘New Seattle Health and Safety. Do not die for no reason. This is the motto of a city so…
November 2013
NewsCons
World FantasyCon 2013 Brighton UK 31 October–03 November 2013 (convention report).
By the pricking of my thumb… The roving carnival of creativity that is the World Fantasy Convention rolled into Brighton and set up…
October 2013
ReviewCons
Bristol-Con 2013 by KT Davies (convention review).
‘Bristol-Con is a one-day convention organized by the Bristol Fantasy & SF Society, under the auspices of the Bristol-Con Foundation’. Taken from the…
September 2013
ReviewFantasy
Atlantis: Episode One: BBC One, Saturday 28th September 2013 (review) by KT Davies.
You’ve heard the phrase too much of a good thing? Well, that just about sums up ‘Atlantis’, the new programme for the family…
August 2013
ReviewFantasy
Discworld Ankh-Morpork Board Game (game review).
Lord Havelock Vetinari, the dictator *ahem* I mean, the patrician of Ankh-Morpork, the fabulous pit of a city at the heart of Terry…
May 2013
ReviewScifi
The Last Full Measure by Jack Campbell (book review).
Taken from the cover: ‘In a transformed mid-nineteenth century America dominated by plantation owners and kept in line by Southern military forces, a…
February 2013
ReviewScifi
Halo: Glasslands by Karen Traviss (book review).
Taken from the cover: ‘The Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and her colonies. For…
ReviewGames
Carcassonne, designed by Klaus-Jurgen Wrede, artist Doris Matthaus (board game review)
What you get: 72 tiles, 1 score table, 40 wood followers in 5 colours, 4 sheets of instructions. Did you ever have a…