9.5/10 This will be posted on Grimdark Magazine on the 08/02/2020. I received an advanced review copy of A Time of Courage in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank John Gwynne and Tor for the opportunity. A Time of Courage is the final entry in the Of Blood and Bone trilogy... Continue Reading →
8.5/10 I received an advance reading copy of The Wise Friend in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank Ramsey Campbell and Flame Tree Press for the opportunity. This was the perfect example of why I love being a book reviewer. Being sent a novel I knew nothing about and randomly deciding... Continue Reading →
9/10 I have been looking forward to reading The Light of All That Falls ever since I finished An Echo of Things To Come and have been counting down the days until I could return to the world of Davian, Caeden, Asha and Wirr. I won’t go into too much detail here regarding the actual... Continue Reading →
Hi, all. Apologies I haven't been that active recently. My laptop decided to give up the ghost so I've been in internet no man's land. As I have a new computer I thought I would catch up and it is that time of year for me to list my favourite reads. Everyone loves a good... Continue Reading →
9/10 Soon to be posted on Grimdark Magazine. I received an uncorrected proof copy of The Girl and the Stars. I would like to thank Mark Lawrence and Harper Voyager for the opportunity. This tale is set in the same world as The Book of the Ancestor, yet in a completely different environment. We follow... Continue Reading →
8.5/10 The Liveship Traders is the second trilogy in Robin Hobb's The Realm of the Elderlings saga. After a couple of false starts, I ended up loving The Farseer Trilogy. I adored the tale of The Fitz and the Fool so much that I carried on following their narrative, probably incorrectly as this chronologically is... Continue Reading →
7.5/10 I received an uncorrected proof copy of Riot Baby in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank Tochi Onyebuchi and Tor. Riot Baby begins in Compton, USA depicting topics that could have been straight out of an N.W.A song. Racism, police brutality, gang banging etc... This chapter is presented by a... Continue Reading →
8.5/10 To be posted on Grimdark Magazine in the next few days. I received an advanced review copy of The Bard's Blade in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank Brian D. Anderson and TOR for the opportunity. Vylari is hospitable and picturesque although it is a quite mundane environment where we... Continue Reading →
8/10 I received an advanced review copy of A Little Hatred in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank Joe Abercrombie and Gollancz. This first novel in The Age of Madness series is set a generation after The First Law trilogy. We are reintroduced to this world as it is in a... Continue Reading →
8.5/10 "History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took." - Spoilers from the first series will follow. Fool's Errand is set 15-years after the finale of Assassin's Quest. Once again we follow FitzChivalry Farseer - the assumed dead royal bastard. In... Continue Reading →
