Book Review: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare My rating: 2 of 5 stars City of Bones is the first book in the successful ‘The Mortal Instruments’ series by Cassandra Clare. The cover art features a city skyline representing New York (that is where the story is set), with the muscular torso of a man in the […]

New Cover Art and Print Version Announcement

Dear Readers, I thought I’d give you a little break from all the book reviews that I’ve been doing recently and share some real, exciting news. First of all I’d like to share with you (to the left, to the left, to the left) the brand new cover art for The Changeling King, by Paul […]

Review: The Ancients by Nick Marsh

The Ancients by Nick Marsh My rating: 2 of 5 stars The Ancients is a fantasy novel with an element of science fiction thrown in. The setting is the aftermath of a civil war, with the king captured and his former advisor and friend installing himself as the Lord Protector. The last of the Royal […]

Book Review: Frags by Thomas K Carpenter

Frags by Thomas K. Carpenter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Frags is the sequel to Gamers, a book I recently reviewed. It continues to follow the adventures of a former high school student as she traverses a post-apocalyptic dystopian world in search for information that will help her locate her friend, Zaela. Gabby, the […]

Book Review: Gamers by Thomas Carpenter

This is a story about a high school girl that wants to graduate with good results and get her best-friend in the the same University as her. The only difference between this girl and any other high school girl is that she lives in our future when everything is hidden behind layers of augmented reality. […]

Book Review: Blood and Fire by Carrie Clevenger and Nerine Dorman

Blood and Fire is the new Xan Marcelles short story and the second collaboration between authors Carrie Clevenger and Nerine Dorman. Xan is a self-proclaimed dude who happens to be a member of Crooked Fang, a rock band who play out of the Pale Rider, a back country tavern in Colarado. He also is a […]

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […]

Christmas Message

So . . . 2011 . . . What a year, right? The year started with funding cuts and job losses in the public and third sector, with only the Royal Wedding to distract us and lighten the mood. Natural disasters seem to have become a permanent annual fixture. News of a single, white, male […]

Review: Elizabeth C Mock’s Render

Render by Elizabeth C. Mock My rating: 3 of 5 stars Render is the second book in Elizabeth C. Mock’s Children of Men series. It continues the story of Faela, Kade and Jair, the three Hands of Lior, agents of change who are chosen whenever a great need arises in the land. One of their […]

Review: Elizabeth C Mock’s Shatter

Shatter by Elizabeth C. Mock My rating: 3 of 5 stars Shatter is the first book in the trilogy, The Children of Man. When magic of Light was misused by the sorcerers, in order to safeguard it from being abused again, magic was split into different colours and each colour became championed by colleges and […]