Title: Kraken Author: China Miéville Pages: 400 Genre: Urban Fantasy (sort of) Standalone/Series: Standalone Release: 7 May in Hardback Publisher: Macmillan Synopsis Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Urban Fantasy’
Update – Läckberg, BSFA Awards, Short Stories, Magazine and being elsewhere…
It’s been a quiet around here though I hope that I’m giving you enough book choices to keep you happy. I have been doing stuff behind the scenes and I have some special things coming up on the blog. Reading Challenge Floor to Ceiling Books jokingly mentioned on Twitter that I don’t do enough reviews. [...]
Green Review: Turn Coat by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
Title: Turn Coat Author: Jim Butcher Pages: 437(hb) 544 (pb) Genre: Noir, Urban Fantasy, Crime Standalone/Series: Series – The Dresden Files Book 11 Release: Out Now in Hardback – 4 March in Paperback Publisher: Orbit Synopsis When a man who has in the past been trying to kill you turns up at your door asking [...]
Green Review: Small Favour by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
Title: Small Favour Author: Jim Butcher Pages: 437(hb) Genre: Noir, Urban Fantasy, Crime Standalone/Series: Series – The Dresden Files Book 10 Release: Out Now in Paperback Publisher: Orbit Synopsis The trouble with fairy tales for Harry Dresden is that they are mostly true. In this case in the shape of the Billy Goats Gruff and [...]
Green Review: White Night by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
Book Info Title: White Night Author: Jim Butcher Pages: 454 Genre: Noir, Urban Fantasy, Crime Standalone/Series: Series – The Dresden Files Book 9 Release: Out Now in paperback Publisher: Orbit Synopsis Harry Dresden is called in to investigate what first appears to be a suicide but it isn’t that simple there is a taint of [...]
Review: A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris (Gollancz)
The things I knew about Sookie Stackhouse before reading A Touch of Dead could have just about managed to fill the back of a postage stamp. I knew that it was the basis for the TV series TrueBlood. I knew that the books themselves are very popular and that they had vampires in them. I [...]
Review: The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey (Orbit)
The Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey Published by Orbit and Out Now in Paperback Felix Castor has made it to book five seemingly in one piece though not after more than a few scrapes along the way. You’ll have to read The Devil You Know, Vicious Circle, Dead Men’s Boots and Thicker Than [...]
Cover P0rm: Nekropolis by Tim Waggoner and Slights by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot Books)
Well here they are. The first two covers of the new imprint Angry Robot Books. Their mission: quite simply, is to publish the best in brand new genre fiction – SF, F and WTF?! And these two Nekropolis and Slights seem to be just that. Both are eye catching. Slights is almost terror inducing [...]
Review: Dead Beat by Jim Butcher (Orbit)
Dead Beat by Jim Butcher The Dreden Files Book 7 Published by Orbit and out now Dead Beat is book seven in the The Dresden Files series. The problem in reviewing series is that there a is a lot of commitment required and the commitment of a reader can be tested if the writer [...]
Review: Eagle Rising by David Devereux (Gollancz)
Eagle Rising by David Devereux Published by Gollancz and out now Well Jack’s back after battling Lesbian Terrorist Witches in Hunter’s Moon. This time Jack, Undercover Secret Service World Saving Magician, has to a stop a bunch of Neo-Nazi crazies who want to clean up England into something a bit more ordered and controlled, whilst [...]
