Synopsis ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island paradise her husband promised it to be when they wed. Now with four young children, she struggles to provide for her family while her husband grows increasingly distant. When a stranger comes ashore to rent an abandoned cottage, […]
Reviews
Review: Gogmagog (The First Chronicle of Ludwich) by Jeff Noon & Steve Beard
Synopsis Gogmagog tells the story of an epic journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon. Travel is by boat, a rickety steam launch captained by veteran taxi pilot Cady Meade, on the river Nysis. In her heyday Cady carried people and goods from the thriving seaports of the estuary into Ludwich, the capital […]
REVIEW: His Ragged Company (Testimonies of Elias Faust #1) by Rance D. Denton
SYNOPSIS A pissed-off warlock with a taste for revenge. An army of sand-golems with fistfuls of magic. A wishing well with a mind of its own. No wonder Blackpeak, Texas never got its spot on the map. Town marshal Elias Faust thinks that he can make any problem go away if he throws enough lead […]
Review: Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle #5) by Christopher Paolini
Synopsis The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the […]
Review: Krieg Chess by Phil Tucker
A realistic gritty redemption story with Chess themed battle arena fights and players with tech enhanced superpowers. Fast paced page turner.
Review: Mewing by Chloe Spencer
There will be likes. There will be follows. There will be blood. Synopsis Vixen would sell her soul to get into the Bleach Babes and, if she isn’t careful, she might just get what she wants. One of the most exclusive influencer co-ops in LA, the Bleach Babes live and work together in one big […]
Steamforged Sorcery by Actus
Mad Max meets Indiana Jones but with magitech. A fun adventure entertainer with trap filled treasure hunts, lost magic, lots of action and a fast paced plot.
Review: The Wise Friend by Ramsey Campbell
Synopsis: Patrick Torrington’s aunt Thelma was a successful artist whose late work turned towards the occult. While staying with her in his teens he found evidence that she used to visit magical sites. As an adult he discovers her journal of her explorations, and his teenage son Roy becomes fascinated too. His experiences at the […]
Review: The Knowing by Emma Hinds
I think it’s important to start this review with a warning that The Knowing is a very dark book, and there are themes of sexual violence from almost the very first page. I wouldn’t say that there’s a single relationship within the book that doesn’t have some kind of manipulation or abuse in it.
If you’re okay with reading books with these types of content warnings then you’ll be utterly spellbound. Once I’d gotten over the shock of how almost every event in the book centres around sex I found myself wrapped up in the story. Flora is a mystic who can speak with the dead, only she’s been told she should never acknowledge the ghosts (and boy does it get interesting when she does)
Review: Your Blood and Bones by J. Patricia Anderson
Synopsis Kill the monsters when they’re found. No matter who they used to be. The girl with secret feathers in her skin and strange bones jutting out beneath her clothes is resigned to her fate. Her deformities mark her a monster and the stories say monsters must die. When her family finds out and turns […]
REVIEW: Sea of Souls (Sea of Souls Saga #1) by N.C. Scrimgeour
SYNOPSIS Dark be the water, and darker still the creatures that lurk within… Free-spirited Isla Blackwood has never accepted the shackles of her family’s nobility. Instead, she sails the open waters, searching for belonging on the waves. But when tragedy calls Isla home, she realises she can no longer escape the duty she’s been running […]
Review: The Fear of Moncroix by Bryan Asher
Synopsis All the Waywards have Fallen… After a mission against the Royal Vampiric Court goes horribly wrong, all of the Waywards are slaughtered. All except one. Davion, the last surviving member, must consume potions to mask himself and hide amongst the very people who killed his brethren. After a decade of living this double-life, Davion […]