Sunday 5th January 2014
BBC1 8.30pm
THE SIGN OF THE THREE
Stephen Thompson
I will solve your murder, but John Watson will save your life.
Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Sherlock
Series 3 Episode 1
The Empty Hearse
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
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.
Review: ‘The Bride’ by Kacie Taylor
2013
A YA retelling of the fairytale ‘The Beauty and The Beast’
Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
I celebrated New Year’s Eve by going to the cinema with my two best friends this afternoon. We had been looking forward to seeing ‘The Desolation of Smaug’ since seeing the first Hobbit film last year.
The journey of Bilbo and his dwarven companions continues as they try to escape the orcs. They take refuge in the house is Beorn the skinshifter, who offers them limited assistance. He dislikes dwarves, but hates orcs more.
A journey through Mirkwood goes badly wrong but Bilbo, and a dozen barrels come to their rescue. Kili makes a conquest if a romantic nature. Later, they make their way to Laketown, and from there their ultimate goal, Erebor – The Lonely Mountain – is only a stones throw, or a dragon’s wingflap, away.
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Review: The Best British Fantasy 2013
Editor: Steve Haynes
Salt Publishing
2013
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
Review: ‘What should we tell our daughters? The pleasures and pressures of growing up female’ by Melissa Benn
John Murray (Publishers)
2013
It’s possible I was bawling just a little when I finished this book.
Review: Bad Santas and other creepy Christmas characters, by Paul Hawkins
My Midwinter reading
I saw a tweet from Simon and Schuster yesterday afternoon asking for reviewers. The book in question is ‘Bad Santas’ by Paul Hawkins. It arrived this afternoon.
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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Everything Is Better With Dragons 