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The Witcher meets The Hobbit in this wonderfully crafted and delightfully terrifying fantasy! Cor'il Silvermoon has been exiled from his homelands - but he doesn't know why. Forced to roam the world outside the safety of what he used to call home, he is destined to meet friends, make enemies, and face the terrors that... Continue Reading →
The most terrifying book you'll ever read - and it's all true! I love thrillers. Thrillers, horror, mysteries, crime and action, whatever it is, I love reading and watching things that can make my heart beat faster. So when I first discovered the true crime genre at some point in my early teens, I was... Continue Reading →
Monstrous demons clash against dark and devastating magic in this fantasy novel full of adventure, thrills and betrayal. This is the second book in the Champion of Psykoria series, and though it's been a while since I read the first, the world came back to me pretty quickly. We follow Jrak Swadoh - King Breetor's... Continue Reading →
As an archaeologist I'm always fascinated by books and authors who dare play with history. Whether it is in fantastical worlds that only draw inspirations from our own, like Tolkien; historical mysteries and conspiracies like those woven by Dan Brown; or those incredible tales set in a more accurate past like Conn Iggulden. No matter... Continue Reading →
I've got a new favorite type of science fiction, and it's whatever Andy Weir writes! I never read the Martian. I never read a lot of things, but I never read the Martian either. I saw the movie though, and I liked it enough to remember Andy Weir's name when I saw Project Hail Mary... Continue Reading →
A definite must read — especially in this day and age. A few years ago, the only thing I knew about George Orwell was that he'd written 1984, and that it was about the government surveilling its citizens or something. So when I came across a cheap paperback copy of it in Oslo airport a... Continue Reading →
It's suddenly over and now I don't know what to do with myself. Josiah Bancroft's Books Of Babel series is fantastic. If you could only read one more series of books before the world ended and you're into fantasy steampunk, then I'd give you this. It's the kind of book series that will be remembered... Continue Reading →
Dark Cure is the jungle born love child of The Thing and Alien. Except the horrible creature that's hunting you is human. Set in a top secret research facility, I though Dark Cure was going to be a familiar story about people who wander off into a dangerous forest in search of some legendary font... Continue Reading →
What a great start to the new year! I set out to read this at the start of the pandemic, some time in spring, 2019. It was a weird mix of wanting to read a book about the world ending due to a super-flu (wonder where I got that idea), finding the book on offer... Continue Reading →
This is what you'd get if Dan Brown wrote an Indiana Jones novel.A incredible fast-paced, action-packed, thrilling and intriguing mystery about Biblical myths and Nazi conspiracies.I read the first of these books a few years ago, and I though I have to admit I don't remember it in detail, I remember being hooked. As an... Continue Reading →
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