Category Archives: Fiction

Review: ‘The House on Blackstone Moor’

Carole Gill
Creativia
2013

When nineteen year old Rose Baines returns home from visiting a dying aunt and finds her Mother, sister, and brother massacred by her mad, abusive ex-barrister and now dead Father, her life falls apart.

First she’s shipped off to Bedlam and then, through the intervention of a suspiciously understanding doctor, to Marsh Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire. Through the good offices of a patroness of the asylum she gets a position as governess to two children at a house on the moors.

Not everything is as it seems; Miss Baines must defeat the ultimate evil and suffer terribly before she takes a final decision and finds love and a measure of peace.

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Review: ‘A Study in Ashes’ Book Three of The Baskerville Affair Series by Emma Jane Holloway

31st December 2013
Del Rey Press

ISBN 9780345537201
$7.99
Mass market paperback

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Eveline Cooper has finally got to University, unfortunately it’s not all she hoped. It’s a prison that occasionally explodes. Nick is dead and Imogen is in a coma; Eveline is alone with only notes from her uncle Sherlock to keep her sane. The Baskerville conspiracy is building up to openly rebel against the Steam Barons but they need Eveline free to help them on Dartmoor.

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Review: The Best British Fantasy 2013

Editor: Steve Haynes

Salt Publishing

2013

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Contributors:

Jon Wallace                           Lavie Tidhar                       Joseph D’Lacey

E. J. Swift                             Carole Johnstone              Cheryl Moore

Steph Swainston                Kim Larkin-Smith                Mark Morris

Cate Gardner                         Sam Stone                      Alison Littlewood

Simon Kurt Unsworth         Lisa Tuttle                        Simon Bestwick

Tyler Keevil                          Adam L. G. Nevil

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And my next review will be

‘The Bride’ by Kacie Taylor. Ms Taylor contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing her take on the ‘beauty and the beast’ fairy tale. Of course I love to read new authors and I was intrigued by the premise so I said yes. So far I’m enjoying the story. I will post a review once I’ve finished the novel.
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Two book reviews

I know I said I wasn’t reviewing any books this month because I’m concentrating on my novel but I got to 43000 words yesterday so I took some time off to finish reading an ARC I’d got from http://www.netgalley.com and another book I’d borrowed from the library. My reviews follow.

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Review: A Study in Darkness Book 2 of The Baskerville Affair by Emma Jane Holloway

 

29th October 2013

Del Ray

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  • ISBN 9780345537195
  • $7.99
  • Mass Market Paperback

 

After the events of A study in silk Eveline Cooper was exiled to her Grandmamma Holmes’ Devon estate, Nick has given up the circus and his horses to become a pirate, captain of the Red Jack, Imogen Roth is fending off unsuitable suitors and Tobias Roth is engaged to the Gold King’s daughter Alice Keating, who is pregnant. Desperate for her company in Scotland Imogen persuades Alice to invite Eveline to visit them at the Keating shooting estate. After a joyous reunion all is turned upside down by Tobias’s unexpected arrival. The Gold King manipulates all concerned and Eveline is once more exiled, this time to Whitechapel. Her mission is to seek out the Blue King’s ‘maker’ – the person designing and creating his weapons and war machines.

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Review: Donny and Ursula Save the World by Sharon Weil

2013
Passing4Normal Press

Ursula has never had a orgasm, she has drank an awful lot of wheatgrass juice though. She belly dances badly and keeps bowls of mushrooms all over the house.
Donny lives alone with his comic book collection, and has never touched wheatgrass. Until he meets Ursula.

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