Fantasy With a Hint of Asian Spices
If you’re thinking that I’m not really the Halloween type, then you would be right. The origins of Halloween lie in the creepy pre-Christianity past of Britain, though its also celebrated as All-Hallows Eve. But then I’m a Muslim, so it doesn’t make a difference to me one way or another (…I’m gonna find ya, […]
Read More Its the Season to be Spooky, Fa La La La Argh!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 […]
Read More Review: J Eathen Satterwhite’s Vanguard SocietyThe 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 […]
Read More Review: Simon Stone’s The Shadowed PathNekropolis: 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 […]
Read More Review: Tim Waggoner’s NekropolisThis 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 […]
Read More Review: The Black God’s War: A NovellaFacebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Authonomy, Google+, Smashwords. This is a list of my current online social networks. Now most of these networks are inter-connected in some shape or form. I write a blog post and it appears on Goodreads. I put up a link on my Facebook page and its copied on to my Twitter account, […]
Read More Social Network FatigueApexology: 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 […]
Read More Review: Apexology Science Fiction and FantasyMy son turned 4 this week. I bought him a World War Hulk action figure (he’s a big Hulk fan). He played with it all day and went to sleep clutching it in his hand. But as my children get older, so do I (33 at the time of writing this post). Only a […]
Read More LegacyDepartment 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, […]
Read More Review: Will Hill’s Department 19The 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 […]
Read More Review: Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games