*Disclaimer: I received an Advanced Reader Copy of this book, and I'm leaving a voluntary review.* The kind of all-encompassing, enveloping fantasy that drags you in. It's a subtly built world, but a massive and detailed world nonetheless. It's difficult with a shorter story, to paint the type of full picture you'd be able to... Continue Reading →

I've been a fan of Stephen King since before I started writing, almost since as long as I've been reading, even though I only recently started to read his stuff (I know, it's weird). All of his great books, albeit in movie form, scared the shit out of me when I was younger, and I'm... Continue Reading →

This is, as far as I know and remember, the shortest story I've read and reviewed. Short stories are something else. They're like an exam, where you have to cram everything you know into a much shorter time-frame. You've got to state your claims, put forth your argument, and prove your point much more quickly... Continue Reading →

Second book in the PC Grant series, and I loved it as much as the first. You can read the review for that here, but the short of it is that PC Peter Grant discovers there's magic in the world, and Peter becomes the first apprentice in ages. Aaronovitch writes with a lot of British... Continue Reading →

Gary and Fiona live a seemingly perfect life. Happy marriage, great home, wonderful jobs, they have it all, topped off with their perfect little daughter Charlotte, or Charley for short. With the only downside being that work is sometimes stressful, their lives are pretty great, and their biggest worry is Charley's upcoming twelfth birthday. Everything... Continue Reading →

And there we finally have it. The end. It's over. Good bye. I know there are two more books that were added later (one that comes before the first, and one between the fourth and fifth), but I haven't read those yet. I might, at some point, but so far I'm happy with these. For... Continue Reading →

After the death of King Grifo and the fall of the Avaelian kingdom, former solider Elstan now makes his living as a mercenary. Accompanied by his friend Venutius, they rack up coin by taking care of the occasional Minotaur, ogre, wolf, troll, or vampire. But when a stranger in a small town gives Elstan a... Continue Reading →

Reasons to kill God follows war criminal and thought-to-be-dead Nazi, Klaus Hermann as he is taken to court after being caught by the authorities in South America. He is allowed, as a last meal kind of deal, to write down his life story before he is executed, and off we go. We start with his... Continue Reading →

Harry Potter for adults. I was recommended this book by a colleague, in fact I was given this and the next book in the series by them to read. I had never heard of these books before so I went in completely blind. And I loved it. The book follows Probationary Constable Peter Grant who... Continue Reading →