Author of Muslim Fantasy & Host of the Fantasy & Faith Podcast
After a couple of weeks of trying to transition from the old site, which still exists in the ether, I have finally managed to configure the trollking web address to the blog site and set up my email using Google Apps. So hopefully you can continue to visit for book reviews and news about my […]
Read More Live AgainThe Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Knife of Never Letting Go. The cover is a clue to what this book is going to be like. The typography wouldn’t look out-of-place on a horror movie and looks like it was written with the tip of a knife, […]
Read More Review: The Knife of Never Letting GoA Kingdom Besieged by Raymond E. Feist My rating: 4 of 5 stars With Kingdom Besieged, we are returned to Midkemia and back to where the saga began; Crydee. Though this is a new trilogy (?) it picks up threads from the previous Midkemian volumes and makes full use of their history and lore. The […]
Read More Book Review: A Kingdom BesiegedThe armchair detectives amongst you will have noticed that the blog is now carrying the website address. There is a perfectly good explanantion for that, which I don’t want to bore you with, but here it is in three words “Microsoft” “Got” “Greedy”. Well, that’s the main reason. The other reason is that whilst the […]
Read More www.trollking.co.ukWicked Hungry by Teddy Jacobs My rating: 2 of 5 stars Wicked Hungry is about a boy (Stanley) coming to terms with a sport’s injury that has taken away his ability to compete as a runner. The need to run gets worse as full moon draws near and a terrible gnawing hunger that his vegan […]
Read More Book Review: Teddy Jacob’s Wicked HungerThe people who know me best, know that my real name isn’t Noor A Jahangir. Relax, I ain’t about to reveal my secret identity just yet. That doesn’t happen until at least season 3 of my life story. But one of my sister’s suggested that the story about how I came by the pseudonym was […]
Read More What’s in a Name?4 out of 5 With the Hunger Games movie coming out soon and my recently developed fascination with archery, I thought it was high time to review the sequel to the brilliant original by Suzanne Collins. Oh, I should say at this point that if you are thinking of reading the original book, which is […]
Read More Book Review: Catching Fire (Hunger Games #2)It was World Book Day yesterday and as a way of contributing to this worthy cause, I offered my book, The Changeling King, as a free download for the day on Kindle. I was blown away by the response! By the Grace of God, 398 copies of the book were downloaded, the majority of […]
Read More Kindle Bestseller!!!“World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.” (http://www.worldbookday.com/about/) This is really my first […]
Read More World Book Day GiveawayYou all know that I’m getting set to launch the print edition of The Changeling King, rocking the Paul Davies cover art. Being a bit of a tinkerer, I’ve redrafted the blurb (the bit on the back of the book) and thought I’d share it with you. As always, your comments are most welcome. So […]
Read More The New Blurb