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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 for help what do you do? If you’re [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Water for [...]

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 and [...]

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 [...]

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 only being [...]

Currently Reading: The Burning Man by Mark Chadbourn

After stalling on Martin Andrew’s The Necropolis Railway, I know it’s steam powered but good god get on with it!, I picked up the next title on my review copy pile and I’m engaged and reading every moment I can fit in.
What has me so excited? It’s the next title by Mark Chadbourn and his [...]

Review: Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

Title: Fool Moon
Author: Jim Butcher
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 01 September 2005
Price: £6.99
Own Copy
In Storm Front Harry Dresden had to battle with dark magic drawn from lust and desire. Now in Fool Moon he has to travel deeper into our animal natures and battle against werewolves. Being Chicago’s only wizard in the phonebook isn’t just about looking for [...]