Blurb: You’ll lose a lot of sleep . . . Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start – the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. That’s when Ralph begins to lose a…… Continue reading Insomnia by Stephen King – A Book Review
Blurb: When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother’s house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more – Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at…… Continue reading The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher – A Book Review
Swords and Spectres happens to be the stop for the Re-Coil Blog Tour today so sit back, relax and get your appetite whetted for some good old Sci-Fi goodness. Other stops along the way can be found on the following blogs: Blurb: The Expanse meets Altered Carbon in this breakneck science fiction thriller where immortality is theoretically…… Continue reading {Blog Tour} Re-Coil by J. T. Nicholas – A Book Review
Blurb: Gladiator meets 1984 in this near-future thriller featuring timeslips, ancient magic and a disturbingly plausible dystopian Britain… 68 CE Fleeing disaster, young Winston Monk wakes to find himself trapped in the past, imprisoned by the mad Emperor Nero. The Roman civilization he idolized is anything but civilized, and his escape from a barbaric home has led him…… Continue reading Echo Cycle by Patrick Edwards – A Book Review
Blurb: 1901. After the death of Queen Victoria, England heaves with the uncanny. Séances are held and the dead are called upon from darker realms. Helena Walton-Cisneros, known for her ability to find the lost and the displaced, is hired by the elusive Lady Matthews to solve a twenty-year-old mystery: the disappearance of her three…… Continue reading The Golden Key by Marian Womack – A Book Review
Ordinarily I am not the fastest of readers but, when I had a few books offered my way that were all due out within a 4-week period, and all sounded pretty awesome to me, I decided I had to get my reading speed up. Frustratingly, of the two of these I have already finished ……… Continue reading ARC Book Haul
Blurb: SUPER HEROES SURVIVE. IT’S WHAT THEY DO. BUT SO DO THE VILLAINS THAT HAUNT THEM. Steve Rogers knows the art of survival better than most. Decades under ice will do that to a man. But the Avengers chipped more than rock-hard morality and super-strength out from under that permafrost. When Cap takes out a…… Continue reading Captain America: Dark Designs by Stefan Petrucha – A Book Review
Blurb: On winter solstice, the birds disappeared, and the mist arrived. The inhabitants of Nebulah quickly learn not to venture out after dark. But it is hard to stay indoors: cabin fever sets in, and the mist can be beguiling, too. Eventually only six remain. Like the rest of the townspeople, Pete has nowhere else…… Continue reading Soon By Lois Murphy – A Book Review
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve managed to get my hands on more books than I expected in such a short time. Some purchased, an ARC, a Library find and a viking trilogy gifted to me by my dad (we are both viking-crazy when it comes to books). Been a good few weeks ……… Continue reading Book Haul
Blurb: 15 years ago, this enigmatic graphic novel performed its mental autopsy on Batman and his enemies, and in doing so set both its creators on the road to greatness. In Gotham City’s home for the criminally insane, Batman confronts his arch-nemeses, including the Joker, Two-Face and more. Before the battle is over, Batman’s mental…… Continue reading Batman: Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison & Dave McKean – A Graphic Novel Review
Swords & Spectres 