Trust a Few by E.M. Swift-Hook My rating: 5 of 5 stars This gritty story mixes military SciFi and cyberpunk elements with interesting characters. Throw in some amnesia, organized crime, a well organized rebellion, and a touch of predictive modelling & engineering the future, and you have a winner. A bit of effort is required […]
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Book Review: The Wake Up
The Wake Up by Angela Panayotopulos My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book gets off to a really great start, darkly beautiful in its prose, and unconventionally so, like the velvet wings of a moth, or the silken mouth of the wind. We are sucked into the devilry of glassblowing and a hidden world […]
Book Review: Errant
Errant by Florian Armas My rating: 3 of 5 stars Errant is a story of kingdoms and exiles, bloody blades and broken promises. If you love medieval fantasy, you will like this book. If you don’t like fantasy this book is not going to change your mind. It has all the usual long journeys, sword […]
It’s Called Disturbing by Buddy Roy Baldry My rating: 5 of 5 stars Somewhere between Glengarry Glen Ross and Fargo, between Office Space and Fight Club, Baldry exudes in rich tones the familiar neurosis of relationships and careers and the quiet hell of modernity. With sullen desperation, Tom Ryder’s sickness of normalcy turns inevitably toward […]
Book Review: The Collector
The Collector by Stjepan Varesevac Cobets My rating: 2 of 5 stars Honestly I found this book hard to read, because it seemed to move too fast. It was all “this happened, then that happened” with very little character development or anything. I guess a lot of people like that type of action, but it’s […]