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100 word review: Control, by Kim Curran 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Like its predecessor, Shift, Control crackles with energy, driving the story forward with cutting prose. Curran picks up where Shift left off, with Scott Tyler working – hard – at his job, keeping his...
100 word review: The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar 21 Aug 2013 | 02:07 pm
Where do heroes come from? How are friendships made? What makes us human? These are the questions that Lavie Tidhar grapples with, in this story of friendship writ large upon a canvas that stretches f...
100 word review: Shift, by Kim Curran 19 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
Scott Tyler, 16 year-old loser, good at nothing: not school, making friends, talking to girls, or anything, discovers that can to undo any decision, with a little concentration, for the next three or ...
100 word review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman 14 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
I’ve been a fan of Neil Gaiman for twenty years. He delivers. Sometimes more, sometimes less, and he strives to tell the greater truths, even in the face of darkness and fear, to remind children and a...
100 word review: Blood and Feathers: Rebellion, by Lou Morgan 12 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Morgan’s follow-up to Blood and Feathers, out recently, picks up a few months after the events of book one, and things are getting worse. People are quite literally having shoot-outs in the middle of ...
Several hundred words review: The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde 5 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Hodderscape have asked me to be a part of their review project, so they’re going to be sending books to me and my fellow bloggers over the next year or so. Much as I love doing the hundred words revie...
100 word review: The Glass Republic, by Tom Pollock 2 Aug 2013 | 01:26 pm
I admit loving The City’s Son. Inventive, joyfully snarky, compelling and fun – and a Kitschies nominee. The Glass Republic is by degrees darker and several steps more grown-up, and shows Pollock’s ...
100 word review: Blood and Feathers, but Lou Morgan 29 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
Angels are real. Hellmouths open on earth. Morgan’s action-fuelled first effort is just. Plain. Fun. Characters with murky pasts? Check. A new, interesting set of takes on old, worn-out tropes? Yup. P...
100 word review: Dark Eden, by Chris Beckett 24 Jul 2013 | 02:20 pm
A strange accident leaves a tiny, inbred colony on an alien world. The book is about the struggle between awaiting salvation and making your own way in the world. One of the most complete and invent...
100 word review: Lightborn by Tricia Sullivan 9 Jul 2013 | 01:04 pm
Every now and then you realise you’ve been remiss in not reading an author. This book isn’t perfect – there’s a mystical author handwave or two that slightly whacks you in the face – but it’s a fasc...
