ReviewFantasy
A Terrible Fall Of Angels (A Zaniel Havelock novel) by Laurel K. Hamilton (book review).
Angels are real. Guardian angels watch our backs and try to guide us to the safer paths. The higher orders sing amid the…
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November 2021
ReviewFantasy
Look Where You Are Going Not Where You Have Been (The Harvester series book 9) by Steven J Dynes (book review).
Many writers at the start of their careers are told to write about what they know. Indeed, one agent told their author that…
ReviewHorror
Hell’s Bounty by Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale (book review).
‘Hell’s Bounty’ is a book with a chequered history! The copy I received from the SFCrowsnest review stockpile was the original Subterranean Press…
ReviewScifi
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Clarence Brown (book review).
Reading about ‘We’, it was originally released in 1921 by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) and centred on a dystopia and got promptly…
ReviewScifi
Isolate: A Novel In The Grand Illusion 1 by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (book review).
Steffan Dekkard is a security aide to Councillor Obreduur of the Craft Party in the state of Guldoran. He lives in the Councillor’s…
ReviewHorror
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (book review).
I love reading ghost stories. I am also interested in learning about Japan, its people, culture and fiction. So when I got offered…
ReviewScifi
Welcome To The Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change, edited by Gordon Van Gelder (book review).
‘Welcome To The Greenhouse’ is an anthology edited by Gordon Van Gelder. He asked 16 writers ‘who speculate about the future to consider…
ReviewFantasy
Sanctuary by V.V. James (book review).
‘Sanctuary’ is a standalone urban fantasy novel written by V.V. James. Meggie Knight has an interesting case on her hands. The star quarterback…
ReviewScifi
Fleet Of Knives (An Embers Of War novel – book 2) by Gareth L. Powell (book review).
‘Fleet Of Knives’ is book two in the ‘Embers Of War’ series by Gareth L. Powell. As this is a review for the…
ReviewFantasy
In The Ravenous Dark by A.M. Strickland (book review).
‘The Ravenous Dark’ is a standalone fantasy book by A.M. Strickland. Rovan watched her father die to protect her and her mother from…
ReviewScifi
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (book review).
‘Project Hail Mary’ is the third standalone Science Fiction novel by Andy Weir and the second one I’ve personally read. Ryland Grace wakes…
ReviewScifi
Putting The Science In Fiction edited/co-written by Dan Koboldt (book review).
I do think that there should be more books like ‘Putting The Science In Fiction’ about. Not just covering the sciences, but popular…