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May 2023

The front cover of The Mandroid Murders by Robin Duncan. The front cover shows a three people looking at a planet through a large window. They all have their back to the reader. There are a number of moons with swirling red mist above the planet

The Mandroid Murders

The Mandroid Murders by Robin C. M. Duncan (Quirk and Moth Book 1) from Space Wizard Science Fiction #BookReview #SciFi #MurderMystery The Mandroid Murders by Robin C. M. Duncan (Quirk and Moth Book 1) Space Wizard Science Fantasy, ebook, £4.99 Reviewed by Nadya Mercik I am so excited writing this… Read More »The Mandroid Murders

The front cover for Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones. The front cover is read and the title runs down the middle in black letters. On the left hand side is a scythe running from top to bottom

Don’t Fear the Reaper

Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones from @TitanBooks #BookReview #Horror Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones Titan Books, pb, £9.19 Reviewed by John Dodd In advance, I hadn’t read My Heart is a Chainsaw, so I came at this cold, as cold as all the bodies… Read More »Don’t Fear the Reaper

Original Sin

Original Sin by Gavin Smith from @TitanBooks #BookReview #GraphicNovel #Marvel #SuperHeroes ORIGINAL SIN By Gavin Smith Titan Books, h/b, £16.99 Reviewed by Matthew Johns Uatu the Watcher is dead. You know him – big chap, bald, wears a toga, lives on the Moon, a bit of a voyeur? Yes, that’s… Read More »Original Sin

Some Desperate Glory

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh from @orbitbooks #BookReview #SciFi Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh Orbit Books, pb, £8.79 Reviewed by John Dodd In advance, I love Space Opera, always have.  It doesn’t have to be a long story, but it does have to be epic, not just in… Read More »Some Desperate Glory

The front cover for Perilous Times from Thomas D. Lee. There is a red dragon's tail wrapped around a tree in the middle of the page. There are bare roots at the bottom of the page and bare branches at the top. In the background are factories with thick black smoke coming out of their chimneys

Perlious Times

Perilous Time by Thomas D. Lee from @orbitbooks #BookReview #Fantasy #Mythology Available for Pre-Order Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee Orbit Books, pb, £8.99 Reviewed by Rym Kechacha It didn’t even take me to the end of the first chapter to know I was in trouble. Context: I’m the mum… Read More »Perlious Times

the front cover for Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway. The cover is in various shades of dark red. There is a dark red outline of a city skyline with the image of a hypodermic needle towering over it in a slight bright shade of red. Towering over that needle is the outline of a man in a darker shade of red.

Titanium Noir

Titanium Noir by Nick Haraway from @CorsairBooks #BookReview #SciFi #DystopianFuture #DetectiveNoir Titanium Noir by Nick Haraway Corsair, HB, £18.19 Reviewed by Sarah Deeming Cal Sounder is occasionally hired by the police as a specialist detective when certain sensitive cases need a special touch. Thanks to a controversial new gene therapy… Read More »Titanium Noir

The front cover for The Fury of Kings by R.S Moule. The front cover shows a person on horseback in the top right hand corner of the page looking down over a rainy hillside.

The Fury of Kings

THE FURY OF KINGS by R.S. Moule from Second Sky Available for Pre-Order #BookReview #Fantasy THE FURY OF KINGS by R.S. Moule. Second Sky, ebook. £1.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Gelick has the blood of kings. They say that Eyrispeak has no summit and can be seen from everywhere. A… Read More »The Fury of Kings

THE JAGUAR PATH by Anna Stephens From @HarperVoyagerUK #BookReview #Fantasy #GrimDark THE JAGUAR PATH by Anna Stephens Harper Voyager, 623 page HC, £16.99 Reviewed by Pauline Morgan The term GrimDark was coined for that kind of fantasy that was steeped in blood and gore, where the character the reader empathizes… Read More »