Category Archives: Fantasy

October Reviews, part 1

While I’m getting used to my new job I’m going to post my reviews in a single blog post. They will probably be quite short, a summary of the content or plot, followed by my opinion and reasons for that opinion.

Enjoy

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August Reviews: part 2

And I returneth with a small number of book reviews. I hadn’t planned to post this set of reviews yet but I managed to read two fairly long books yesterday and thought it would be sensible to post them rather than waiting ten days.
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August reviews: part 1

I know I posted a few reviews a couple of days ago but that was to celebrate the Hugo Awards. I do wish I’d been able to go to Loncon but such is life. Right, enough with the wishing, on with the reviews.
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500th post!

Good lord, this is my five hundredth post. I’m going to use it to review a book, which isn’t a great surprise I suppose.

Review:

Revelations

The Merlin Chronicles Book One

Daniel Diehl
GMTA Publishing, LLC (Imprint: Mythos Press)
Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Members’ Titles

Pub Date   Sep 30 2013

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Review: ‘Steam City Pirates’ by Jim Musgrave

Steam City Pirates

Pat O’Malley Steampunk Mysteries
Jim Musgrave
English Majors Editors and Publishers, LLC

Pub Date: Dec 1 2013

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Like Alice’s rabbit, a strange “mechanical-like man” leads 1869 New York Detective Pat O’Malley down into the world of steam power. A group from the future calling itself the World Scientific Advancement Society for Progress is living secretly beneath Central Park. These pirates are inventors whose only goal is to keep the Earth in the Steam Age in order to save it from a future nuclear holocaust. Five alien assassins from other universes are ordered to kill O’Malley and his group, and each alien has a unique ability to do the job. As the Steam City Pirates build a steam-powered amusement park on Coney Island, O’Malley and his group are hunted down in the streets of New York City. The future of the world is at stake in this mystery and adventure featuring a twisting plot, steampunk time travel, steam men duels, crafty inventions, and monsters from other planets.

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