Book Reviews
A Darkness At Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Thursday 30 October, 2008
A Darkness At Sethanon happily avoids the pitfall that seems to trip the last leg of many potentially-great trilogies from time to time, as it continues the Riftwar Saga's fine line in quality di... Read More...'48 - James Herbert
Written by Kyle Coare in Book Reviews, Wednesday 8 October, 2008
James Herbert has been writing horror fiction for many years now, with such classics as "The Rats" and "Haunted" to name just a couple, these books have pushed him to the forefront of British horro... Read More...Silverthorn - Raymond E. Feist
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Sunday 21 September, 2008
Magician was a full-blooded fantasy affair if ever there was one. Though it displayed its traditional, swords 'n' sorcery brand of fantasy with pride, it clearly didn't do things by halves; over th... Read More...Stand By, Stand By - Chris Ryan
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Saturday 30 August, 2008
Chris Ryan's first foray into fictional writing struggles to hit the highs that its predecessor The One That Got Away managed. Stand By, Stand By is written with the same attention to detail tha... Read More...The One That Got Away - Chris Ryan
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Monday 25 August, 2008
It is often said that truth can be stranger than fiction, and in the case of Chris Ryan's debut novel, it can also make a story a great deal more compelling. The One That Got Away sits snugly be... Read More...The Stars, Like Dust - Isaac Asimov
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Monday 19 May, 2008
For 1951's The Stars Like Dust, Isaac Asimov opted to take the second instalment of his Galactic Empire series down an altogether more action-orientated path than its predecessor Pebble In The Sky.... Read More...Pebble In The Sky - Isaac Asimov
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Wednesday 14 February, 2007
“To the rest of the galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky.” It's a running theme in a great deal of Asimov's novels - a refreshing view of a galaxy that doe... Read More...Legend - David Gemmell
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Tuesday 26 September, 2006
My good friend and fellow-writer Gildor_Inglorion knows a thing or two about books - and more specifically, about the fantasy genre from which seemingly no major work has escaped him. A little while a... Read More...The Colorado Kid - Stephen King
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Monday 8 May, 2006
Generally speaking, the arrival of a new Stephen King novel is a rather big event given that he is one of the most popular and well-recognized authors in the world. It came as something of a surprise ... Read More...Desperation - Stephen King
Written by Tom Clare in Book Reviews, Sunday 2 April, 2006
I bought the hefty-looking Desperation from a market stall recently, knowing that the least I would get for my 95p would be a decent pennies-to-pages ratio. Having now compiled more or less all of Ste... Read More...A Darkness At Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist
A Darkness At Sethanon happily avoids the pitfall that seems to trip the last leg of many potentially-great trilogies from time to time, as it continues the Riftwar Saga's fine line in quality di...
'48 - James Herbert
James Herbert has been writing horror fiction for many years now, with such classics as "The Rats" and "Haunted" to name just a couple, these books have pushed him to the forefront of British horro...
Silverthorn - Raymond E. Feist
Magician was a full-blooded fantasy affair if ever there was one. Though it displayed its traditional, swords 'n' sorcery brand of fantasy with pride, it clearly didn't do things by halves; over th...
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