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The Midnight Bargain by CL Polk (book review).
Beatrice Clayborn is a young woman about to be married off to the most eligible bachelor in order to secure her family’s fortunes…
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October 2020
ReviewFantasy
Smoke by Dan Vyleta (book review).
If you sin, you smoke, visible for all to see and infectious to everyone around you. Thin wisps of white smoke for tiny…
ReviewBooks
Disney Block: art by Peskimo (book review).
Out of all the books I’ve ever reviewed, the ‘Disney Block’ is probably the hardest to write about. I think part of my…
August 2020
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You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce (book review).
Renowned author and suspected murderer Cassandra Tipp is missing, presumed dead. After a year with no leads, her estate is willed to her…
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On Spec: The Canadian Magazine Of The Fantastic vol. 30 no. 3 #113 (magazine review).
‘On Spec’ is billed as ‘The Canadian Magazine Of The Fantastic’ and this is the first time I’ve read this particular publication so…
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Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey (book review).
When a murder occurs in an exclusive magic school, private investigator Ivy is drafted in to solve the case. To complicate matters, her…
March 2020
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Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (book review).
“Are you a coward or are you a librarian?” This might be the best tagline I’ve ever seen for a book and it…
January 2020
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High Fire by Eoin Colfer (book review).
‘Lord Highfire’ was a magnificent dragon, flaming whole villages when angered and ruling his kingdom through fear and awe. These days he goes…
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Athena’s Champion (Olympus Trilogy book 1) by David Hare and Cath Mayo (book review).
Odysseus has travelled to Pytho to seek the blessing of his grandmother, the famous seer known as the Pythia. Expecting this to be…
ReviewBooks
Superhuman: Life At The Extremes Of Mental And Physical Ability by Rowan Hooper (book review).
‘Superhuman: Life At The Extremes Of Mental And Physical Ability’ is a popular science book looking into the science behind performance at extreme…
ReviewScifi
The Book Of M by Peng Shepherd (book review).
In the near future, a strange plague has swept the Earth. People are losing their shadows and, with them, their memories. Without memories,…
October 2019
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Songs Of The Earth (The Wild Hunt book 1) by Elspeth Cooper (book review).
Gair is resigned to the fact that he is about to die, due to be executed for being a witch, so it comes…