Category Archives: Fiction

June reviews: part one

It’s the middle of the month and yet I haven’t posted a single book review. To make up for it I’m going to review four today.
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May Reviews

Good morning, I’m sick again and the sun has disappeared so I can’t sit around in the garden writing. I’m going to laze in luxury in my room instead. I have two book reviews to write; I’ve been putting them off because of working, but it’s Saturday and I actually have a bit of free time.Continue reading “May Reviews”

Review: ‘The Greenland Breach’ by Bernard Besson

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Originally published: Groenland
2011
Odile Jacob (France)

Present edition: Translated by Julie Rose
2013
Le French Book (New York)

ISBN:9781939474070

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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:’Intervention: The Pandora Virus’ by WRR Munro

Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Members’ Titles

Oct 21 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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