This my first dual review. I was offered the chance to review Avilion by The Book Smugglers (where this review originally appeared). I always try to start at the beginning when possible so I thought I’d review both Mythago Wood, that’s considered a classic and the sequel that comes after a twenty-five year wait. The [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
Sunday Thinking: Genre has no value, or is this just more Stephen King bashing? At least it sells!
Under the Cosh, this may as well have been called, which is perhaps a little unfair, but you didn’t have to speed-read it inside a week. It’s not that this is a bad book. It is, in many ways, a good book: King’s take on the America of Bush and 9/11, a nation on the [...]
Catching up: Signings, books, books and books
I was in London on Thursday as Forbidden Planet had another of their mega signings bringing together five Gollancz authors: David Devereux, Paul McAuley, Justina Robson, Adam Roberts, Chris Wooding all there signing their new books. Strangely I only spoke to Adam Roberts and Chris Wooding. I was too shy to speak to Paul McAuley [...]
This is something you can really safely ignore
I think I’m supposed to put this up for Technorati: SDFUNGCFGYMS At least that’s what Unbound! did.
Review: Under The Dome by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
Under the Dome is a big book in both pages and in terms of scope but one that takes place in one town, Chester’s Mill. And it’s probably true to say that that King is going to be testing himself to the limit with this book. The title of Under the Dome describes the events [...]
Sunday Thinking: Reviews, what are they good for?
There is a really fascinating debate on the nature of covers, centred around SFF, but I’m sure they apply across the board. It started off with the cover of The Black Prism by Brent Weeks and has now moved on to the cover I was showing off a couple of days ago for paperback release [...]
Trailer: The Brothers Grossbart on Sin from The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington (Orbit)
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington has come up on this blog before when I fell in love with the cover. Is it a skull or something else? This is very very high on the TBR! Its been getting great reviews and I love the video!
Feature: Reached 100!!
Firstly I have a confession. I have, I think, after a few checks and finding a review I hadn’t listed already published 100 reviews on NextRead. Woohoo!! I was hoping that I was on 99 (as I wanted Under The Dome to be 100th) but it’s not and I really couldn’t be happier that the [...]
Cover P0Rn: Paperback of Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton (Tor UK)
The paperback has a different cover from the hardback. I think I like it and it’s in trend with all ‘the other ‘figures on covers’ that is popular at the minute. The only reservation I have is it’s going to imprint on me a new image of one of the characters. It works for Terry [...]
Review: Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs (Headline Review)
I’m guilty of putting books I buy on the back burner, it really is a bad habit to get into as I keep missing out on reading books like this one earlier. The good thing about reviewing though it that getting hassled by a publicist (actually that’s really not true) but getting informed that a [...]
