A Darkness Forged in Fire

I finished reading A Darkness Forged in Fire by Chris Evans a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve been a bit slack in getting around to posting a review. A hugely enjoyable read, but I had one minor quibble that I’ll explain in a bit. A Darkness Forged in Fire is in some ways a very traditonal [...]

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Reading Update

I’m usually quite good at buying books only when I want something new to read, but thanks to summer sales in bookstores I’ve got a smallish stack of books needing some love and attention. I’m currently reading Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton, which I’m about a fifth of the way through. So far the [...]

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Jasmyn

I really enjoyed Alex Bell’s first novel, The Ninth Circle, so I was looking forward to her next book, Jasmyn. I managed to get a nice signed copy, only to be warned by the author that the two books are very different. Jasmyn is a supernatural romantic suspense, which isn’t exactly the kind of book [...]

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London Calling

A bit about what’s currently going on with me. My PhD has demanded that I spend some time at the Natural History Museum in London, so I been up in the big smoke since last week. I always have mixed emotions about having to spend a long period of time in London. I have a [...]

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Retribution Falls

I just finished reading Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding about a week ago, and really enjoyed it, so I thought I’d write a quick review. This is the first book in a new series called Tales of the Ketty Jay. Each book is standalone, so no cliff hanger endings. Retribution Falls is centered around the escapades of [...]

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Coffee Table Books – The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

To me ‘coffee table books’ are big lavish photography books with stunning images. They sit around on coffee tables, waiting for guests to be lured into picking them during a conversational lull, and then they wow with glorious pictures. My current favourite is The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian. As you can [...]

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Summer Reading

The weather is glorious today, with the sun shining away – perfect conditions to be outside reading a book in a park or on the beach. Unfortunately I’m stuck in my office, with a stack of papers a couple of inches deep to plough through. Reading aplenty, but not exactly particulary inspiring material. Although scientific papers do [...]

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Best Served Cold

I managed to pick up a copy of Joe Abercrombie’s latest book Best Served Cold on Saturday. I was strong and resisted the urge to skip off work and put life on hold until I had read the book, so rather than reading it on one sitting I only just finished it on Tuesday. I’m [...]

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Where are my books?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss and The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. What do these two books have in common? Both of them are very eagerly awaited by many a fantasy fan, myself included. And if I believed some of the release dates that have been listed on Amazon, I could have [...]

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