Review: Containment

Containment is hard science fiction. In fact some may even say that its more science than fiction. Much of this novel reads like a science textbook from the future. The cover features a futuristic city scape which has little to do with the actual storyline. The story follows young Arik’s coming of age and induction […]

Review: Mike Shevdon’s Sixty-One Nails

Sixty-One Nails by Mike Shevdon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Sixty-One Nails is urban fantasy in the vein of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Its set in London and follows the journey of an office worker into the realisation that the Fey are real and coexist alongside humanity. His adventure begins after he experiences a heart […]

Review: J Eathen Satterwhite’s Vanguard Society

The Vanguard Society by J. Eathen Satterwhite My rating: 2 of 5 stars The cover of The Vanguard Society is a black and white affair. A woman’s face peers out, drawn in black ink and effecting a kind of negative image of a women standing in the dark with a little light spilling over her […]

Review: Simon Stone’s The Shadowed Path

The Shadowed Path follows the attempts of a young man to put a traumatic experience behind him and get some answers as to why things went so badly wrong for him and his companions 4 years ago. The book is heroic fantasy in the vein of the late and great David Gemmell. The book cover […]

Review: Tim Waggoner’s Nekropolis

Nekropolis: A Matt Richter Novel by Tim Waggoner My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nekroplis is a strange concoction of genres. Its a detective story set in a fantasy background with every describable (and some indescribable)monster from horror featured in it. Its perhaps why it took Nekroplis so long to be taken up by a […]

Review: The Black God’s War: A Novella

This is an interesting book. I bought it because David Farland recommended it in one of his Daily Kicks. I started reading it initially but couldn’t get into, then left for about half a year. Then a few days ago, I picked it up and started reading it again and was pleasantly surprised. Its like a blend […]

Review: Apexology Science Fiction and Fantasy

Apexology: Science Fiction and Fantasy by Maurice Broaddus My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Apex Book Company are known for producing some of the best new fiction out there. This anthology is no different, though many of the stories seem to be reprints. The writing is tight, the plots are intriguing and the characterization […]

Review: Will Hill’s Department 19

Department 19 by Will Hill My rating: 4 of 5 stars Department 19, a covert government agency, was set up by Van Helsing and the small group of men who survived the destruction of Dracula. A fresh spate of killings across Western Europe alerted them to the fact that Dracula had made three other vampires, […]

Review: Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Hunger Games is based in a post-apocalyptic USA, where only one city remains standing, the Capitol. Around the Capitol are 13 districts, each producing an important resource for the people who live in the Capitol. The districts tried to rise up against […]

Review: Tracie McBride’s Ghosts Can Bleed

Ghosts Can Bleed is an eclectic collection of short stories and poems, in fantasy, horror and sf genres, by New Zealander, Tracie McBride. The titular story is about a chap called Maurice, who believes he is dead and is trying to convince his wife of this fact but all is not as it seems. The […]