(Mostly) Book Reviews

 This is the first adult fantasy novel by the writer of the massively successful Artemis Fowl series of children's/young adu...

I feel Mythos is the stronger of the two, the characters detailed within are better and more interesting.  Dealing with, as Fry ...

Read this one on the back of just finishing the first in the series. Travis McGee is a compelling, if not very likable character...

 Set in a pseudo medieval Renaissance style world, this richly told tale centres around the would-be assassin Mia Corvere, bent on reve...

I posted this originally on Wattpad, but apparently you have to sign up to that site before you can read this, so I'm posting it he...

 I read this because of the hype surrounding Liu Cixin's more recent novel, The Three Body Problem. I wanted to read some of the aut...

This book had a lot to live up to. One of last year's standout debuts, Traitors Blade was a fun action-packed thrill ride owing more...

I've read that The Liars Key is not a redemption tale. I think it absolutely is. Perhaps not for Jalan, but for the reader. We may no...

                        As usual Sean Kavanagh does not disappoint with another strong collection. With a couple of real standout stori...

The first thing that impressed me about this book was the cover. Hauntingly beautiful, with an impression of scale and loneliness, an imp...

Sean Kavanagh, author of Fiction on Foreign Planets, Volume 1  and Volume 2, previously released and reviewed here as A Country Fit For Zer...

  "The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been ...

Excellent as always by Sean Kavanagh. A darker twist than his previous two collections, but retaining the same short, sharp clarity of pr...

A piece of short fiction I have written for a competition.  Any and all feedback welcomed. He made me a liar. He made us all liars. For y...

Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. ...

I enjoyed this book, but I loved the ending. I won't give anything away here, but suffice to say that Underwood turns the entire b...

Jurassic Park meets How to Train your Dragon. I can't think of a better way to describe this book. A fantastic read, which drew me ...

I started a new blog today. It will be totally dedicated to my book which will hopefully be published in early 2015. The book is called A ...

City of Stairs (Robert Jackson Bennett) A wonderful book which defies genre classification, using elements of fantasy in its intricate ...

Having read (and loved) Lawrence's debut trilogy, you could be forgiven for thinking you knew what to expect with his latest effort. I...

The author of the high fantasy series The Malazan Book of the Fallen, has crossed genres with this comedic spoof of Star Trek. Similaritie...

Sometimes a book comes along which exceeds already lofty expectations. Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Stairs is such a book, and mor...

**NON-Book Related Post** The recent international fixtures have made me think.  Surely there’s a better   way of organising these gam...