How to avoid spoilers in ten steps?

1. Don’t answer the phone. 2. Avoid your siblings and friends 3. Rip your modem out of the socket 4. Drop your smartphone into toilet 5. Wrap your laptop in foil 6. Don’t go into work 7. Definitely don’t read a magazine or newspaper (do people still do that?) 8. Put earplugs in when outside […]

Book Review: Starship Grifters by Robert Kroese

A Star Wars spoof that takes its pointers from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Month Python.

Exclusive Preview: The Adventures of Some Kid

Midnight Flight Things started to go pear-shaped for Zach Caan when a Madrid airport security officer mistook him for an infamous baby-faced terrorist. The teachers who had accompanied his class on the trip to Spain waited until the last minute before boarding the flight home. Getting the rest of the kids home was apparently a […]

Interview: Elbert Lim, Artist

Long time followers will be aware that as well as writing book reviews, I also write fiction (surprise!). My latest contribution to the world comes in the form of a Young Adult adventure story (with elements of mystery and mysticism), titled The Adventures of Some Kid. The protagonist, Zach Caan is a regular kid who […]

Exclusive Preview: Eternal Night by Jade Kerrion

My Rating: 4/5 A genre-bending love story by the award-winning author of the Double Helix books, Jade Kerrion. Every full-moon for a thousand years the humans of Aeternae Noctis have dreaded the arrival of the vampires who steal away their five year old children. Now it’s the turn of the child who has been prophesied […]

Book Review: Max Brook’s World War Z

Its very rare to find a peice of creative writing that goes beyond just being a clever use of words, structures and gimmicks that is worthy of commercial and literary success; and yet World War Z is just such a work. A great many people will be put off by the oral history (interview) format […]

Book Review: Camdeboo Nights by Nerine Dorman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars To relegate Camdeboo Nights to being a mere gothic romance would be unfair and inaccurate, although a romance between a vampire and a young woman is at the center of this tale. Despite its misleading cover, Camdeboo Nights is an urban fantasy novel mixing western superstitions with the more […]

Book Review: Mockingjay (Hunger Games)

My rating: 4 of 5 stars Mockingjay is the third book in the Hunger Games trilogy. I started reading this trilogy back in September 2011 and have had this final part sitting on my kindle for nearly eight months. Its not that I didn’t want to read it right away. I wanted to draw out […]

Book Review: Nightingale by David Farland

My rating: 4 of 5 stars Nightingale is the first in a series of urban fantasy books by David Farland, bestselling author of the Runelord fantasy series and mentor to a whole new generation of bestselling genre writers. Nightingale is about a changeling boy named Bron Jones who has been raised through the social welfare […]

Review: Perfect Betrayal by Jade Kerrion

My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the sequel to the award-winning Perfection Unleashed. It starts where the original left off. Danyael Sabre, the world’s most powerful empath arrives home with no memory of the last two days. At his apartment he finds a beautiful and dangerous mercenary waiting for him, Zara Itani. She […]