Category: Book Reviews
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Review – The Quiet Place – Richard Maynard
Format: Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Grafton Publication date: 28 June 1990 ISBN-13: 978-0586208083 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Set in the future, this story concerns a group of astronauts who return to Earth after what they believe is 60 years. They do in fact arrive centuries after they set off,…
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Review – Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Format: Paperback Publisher: Night Shade Books Publication date: 2008 ISBN-13: 9781597801058 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Famine, death, war, and pestilence: the four horsemen of the Apocalypse – these are our guides through the Wastelands… Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades…
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Review – The Dechronization of Sam Magruder – George Gaylord Simpson
Format: Paperback, 160 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Publication date: 15 April 1997 ISBN-13: 978-0312155148 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The Dechronization of Sam Magruder is one of the stranger works of fiction that has appeared in recent years. Its author, George Gaylord Simpson, was widely regarded as the greatest…
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Review – Betrayel At Falador – T S Church
Format: Mass Market Paperback Publisher: Titan Books Publication date: 12 October 2010 ISBN-13: 9781848567221 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ With over 100 million active accounts, RuneScape is widely recognised as the world’s most popular MMORPG. Betrayal at Falador is the first ever tie-in novel to RuneScape. In the kingdom of Asgarnia,…
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Review – Ferney – James Long
Format: Paperback, 416 pages Publisher: Quercus Publication date: 2012 ISBN-13: 9781780875309 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ When Mike and Gally move to a new cottage in Somerset, it’s to make a new start. But the relationship comes under strain when Gally forms an increasingly close attachment to an old countryman, Ferney.…
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Review – Davinci Code – Dan Brown
Format: Paperback Publisher: Corgi Publication date: April 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0552149518 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. As…
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Review – The Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
Format: Paperback, 518 pages Publisher: Touchstone Publication date: 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0743272506 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ From the bestselling author of ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII, and the one woman who destroyed two of his queens. The…
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Review – Cujo – Stephen King
Format: Paperback, 345 pages Publisher: Futura Publication date: 01 January 1982 ISBN-13: 9780708821718 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting… Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had.…
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Review – I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
Format: Paperback Publisher: Millennium (SF Masterworks) Publication date: 1999 ISBN-13: 9781857988093 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Robert Neville is the last living man on earth … but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are all…
