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Raising Caine (Caine Riordan book 3) by Charles E. Gannon (book review)
Caine Riordan has a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In ‘Fire With Fire’, he stumbled into an…
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December 2015
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The Prince And The Program (The Mordred Saga book 1) by Aldous Mercer (book review)
‘The Prince And The Program’ by Aldous Mercer is a very strange book. The ‘strange’ is what turns every page, however, as you’re…
November 2015
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The Shards Of Heaven by Michael Livingston (book review).
Every now and then TOR books sends me something I did not request. Every time this happens, I open the envelope with equal…
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Y Negative by Kelly Haworth (book review).
Ember is Y Negative. In the world created by Kelly Haworth for her novel, ‘Y Negative’, that means Ember is not a man…
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Son Of The Black Sword (Saga Of The Forgotten Warrior book 1) by Larry Correia (book review).
I have been looking forward to ‘Son Of The Black Sword’ ever since I read ‘The Keeper Of Names’ in Baen’s ‘Shattered Shields’…
October 2015
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Purpose by Andrew Q. Gordon (book review)
I don’t often re-read books, but when Andrew Gordon sent me an updated copy of his book ‘Purpose’, I dove back in right…
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Gold Throne in Shadow (World of Prime: Book 2) by M.C. Planck (book review)
‘The continuing adventures of Christopher Sinclair, mechanical engineer turned priest of war.’ The end of ‘Sword of the Bright Lady’ (World Of Prime:…
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Rising Tide by Rajan Khanna (book review).
In Rajan Khanna’s first novel, ‘Falling Sky’, we meet Benjamin Gold, a fairly typical post-apocalyptic survivor in an atypical post-apocalyptic world. Combining zombies…
September 2015
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Archmage (Homecoming Book 1) by R.A. Salvatore (book review).
‘Drizzt returns to the Underdark!’ ‘Archmage’ numbers twenty-eighth in ‘The Legend Of Drizzt’. As always, I’ll preface my review with the caveat that…
August 2015
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Zero World by Jason M. Hough (book review).
I didn’t actually read the synopsis of ‘Zero World’ when I requested a copy for review. I had enjoyed Jason M. Hough’s ‘Dire…
July 2015
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Stormbringer: Book 2 of The Wyrd by Alis Franklin (book review).
The good news is that the first chapter of ‘Stormbringer’ confirms all my suspicions regarding the last chapter or so of ‘Liesmith’, the…
June 2015
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Storm And Steel (The Book Of The Black Earth book two) by Jon Sprunk (book review)
Poor Horace. In ‘Blood and Iron’ (part one of The Book of the Black Earth) he escaped death only to be tossed in…