Here be dragons.

Oh boy, finally a book that allows me to use up all the reviewer clichés in one go! You don’t know how long I have waited for this. Stop the printing; I am sure the next round of paperbacks is … Continue reading
I love the premise here: every twelve years twelve people are chosen for a ritual; they wake one morning to find a coloured stone beside them, or under their pillow. They then have to travel to the capital, throw their … Continue reading
Less than a year ago when this blog began I put in a submissions page because that how it is done. I don’t think we had big lofty goals for the blog, we wanted to watch numbers grow but never … Continue reading
This is a break away from fantasy for the author, but not very far. It’s technically science fiction – a guy builds a time machine in his Detroit garage, and after a diagnosis of terminal cancer he decides he has … Continue reading
Steampunk adventure! This book was like reading a blockbuster movie, and it was a whole lot of fun. Like most blockbusters that come up in the summer months you have to prepare for some conveniences, assume all the characters will … Continue reading
It’s a strange thing, but I had ‘Prince of Thorns’ sitting on my Kindle for a full year before I got round to reading it. I’d read the reviews, I knew something of what it was about, I knew it … Continue reading
Another infuriating entry in the Spiritwalker Trilogy. How can a book do some things so damn good, and make a complete mess out of others? I was going to finish off the book, then be done with the series despite … Continue reading
If I just throw out my random thoughts about this book could someone do all the work and put it into a cohesive review? Because I have honestly tried three times, and have deleted everything I wrote each time. So … Continue reading
Nathan’s review [23rd December 2012]: While I try to keep them at a minimum, this review may contain some spoilers to ‘Prince of Thorns.’ What a difference fifty pages makes. I had almost put the sequel to ‘Prince of Thorn’ … Continue reading
I see the issue with my ranking system here. ‘The Emperor’s Knife’ is not a one star book. There is too much good in it. Highly ambitious, fairly unique, and with some fairly strong writing in the early going. But … Continue reading