The author kindly gave me a copy of Cast in Sand and Whalemoon (which I reviewed here) on audio. I’ll talk a little about both here. I like to try out new (for me) authors, including self-published ones. Many I’ve already heard of through social media, but Dustin Porta I just found through Audiobook.boom. It turned out to be a […]
Obligatory Star Wars reference – the author was inspired to write this book by his love of Star Wars. He says it in the book. Every review, even a one-word-review will mention this, so I feel obliged to. Job done. Format: E-Book Obtained from: PublisherPrint length: 592 pagesPublisher: OrbitISBN: 9780316519540 You will read many great novels this year. Some will […]
I received a free uncorrected proof from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The world has changed. Humans once dominated the globe, now we live huddled in walled towns, afraid of the outside world where everything is dangerous. Koli is one such human. He has the same miniscule dreams of everyone else, then he finds a piece of old […]
 I received a free ARC from the author in return for an honest review. This in now way impacts my opinion. I’ve been enjoying this series so far. The basic premise revolves around the people of earth discovering an alien technology that allows them to travel to different forms of earth that have deviated somewhere from the timeline of our […]
Black Creek, a time-spanning novel featuring a battle between powerful beings who roughly equate good and evil, without it being that simple. Also has dinosaurs. Sound good? Here’s my take. Worldbuilding The story spans many time periods, from the birth of the planet right up to its post-apocalyptic near future. A sizeable part is set in the Old West (or […]
Like many of you (I guess), I decided to read this book after the author had died. The book was written forty-odd years ago, and it definitely looks an epic fantasy from the 70s or 80s. Take that as you will, but there is some stuff to like for you modern GRRM types. Here’s a random rundown of my thoughts […]
John Wyndham writes terrific sci-fi, usually based in the future, but the characters and ideals are set very much in the Britain he grew up in. This set contains two such tales. The Chrysalids is set in a post-apocalyptic (well, post-Rapture) English town where anyone who deviates from the norm is considered to be different and therefore evil – like […]
The world has ended, not with a bang, but more of a whimper. There were no meteors, no alien invasions, no zombie apocalypse. Instead, people just stopped reproducing. No more babies = no more humans. Of course, if that were 100% true, this would be a very short book. A minute percentage continued to conceive, and lived on in the […]
Warning – I’ve been reading this series since book one, so in the interest of my own sanity, I’m just going to review this episode. If you want to read about the others, you can look back at my other reviews on Goodreads, As for this one, there will be some spoilers. The earth is on its last legs. Global […]
Not Me: Dude, you’re reading a lot of books lately? Don’t you have other stuff to do? Me (Looks at all the stuff I should be doing): Um, nope? Okay, onto Bird Box. If any of you follow me on Goodreads or Twitter, you may notice I started reading Josh Malerman’s apocalyptic horror a couple of days ago. well. it’s […]
