Review: Williams T, The Heart of What was Lost (Random House: 2019)
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The great war against the evil Storm King has been won and the armies of his people, the Norns, flee Northwards, pursued by Duke Isgrimnur and his Rimmersgard. If Isgrimnur doesn’t end the Norn threat now it will only return when their dread Queen is revived. But at one point does the quest to defeat the Norn become genocide? And how far are both sides prepared to go to survive?
(more…)Review: Cline E, Ready Player One, Science Fiction (Arrow:2012)
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In a depressingly believable future where we failed to do anything about climate change, income inequality or rubbish global leadership, the vast majorities’ only escape is a fully immersive virtual reality known as OASIS. In his will, the creator of OASIS declared that whoever found three hidden Easter Eggs would inherit the entirety of his estate. Now the race is on between the independent Gunters and the evil IOI corporation to determine the future of the world.
(more…)Review: Druon M, The Poisoned Crown, Historical Fiction, (Harper Collins: 2014), tr Humphrey Hare
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Here we are at the third book in the Accursed Kings series, and Louis X still isn’t a very good King, but he is very excited at the prospect of a new Queen (having murdered his last one). So much so that he neglects or outright ignores the brewing conflict between Robert of Artois and his Aunt Mahaut, and the violent struggle between his father’s progress or a return to feudalism.
(more…)Gaiman N, Coraline, Urban Fantasy, (Bloomsbury: 2002)
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Corliane is a bored adolescent stuck in a strange new home with parents that don’t listen to her and a cat the occasionally talks. But that isn’t the strangest thing about the house. The strangest thing is the hidden door in the drawing room; the door that leads to the other mother, the mother with the button eyes, the one that wants to keep and love and care for Coraline forever, if she’ll only let her take out her eyes.
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