The Fifty-Two Catch-up - Books 14 to 33...
Having seen my reading in 2007 drop off to one or two books a month I set myself a goal, to read fifty-two books in one year. Tomorrow is the start of week 41 so I've fallen behind slightly due to comics and Silent Hill: Homecoming taking up my travel time but I aim to catch up soon as I have a few Who books and a couple of Georgiana books I'm really looking forward too...
Book Number 14: Doctor Who - Wishing Well by Trevor Baxendale
A good read about a village with a creature down the well. Can’t help but think it was written as a Krynoid story but got changed into this.
Book Number 15: Doctor Who - The Pirate Loop by Simon Guerrier
An okay space yarn with a fun time-loop plot device featuring Space badgers!
Book Number 16: Doctor Who - Peacemaker by James Swallow
Excellent Who story with cowboys and aliens.
Book Number 17: Doctor Who - The Many Hands by Dale Smith
Excellent Who book set in Edinburgh. The Doctor vs Zombies.
Book Number 18: Primeval - The Shadow of the Jaguar by Steven Saville
A surprisingly good book, using the slightly rubbish second season idea of ‘future’ dinosaurs in a very very good way. The pay off is very good indeed, a shame the series can’t be this good.
Book Number 19: Torchwood - Something in the Water by Trevor Baxendale
A good Torchwood tale featuring a water hag.
Book Number 20: Torchwood - Trace Memory by David Llewellyn
An excellent book that would have made an awesome episode featuring a man who becomes unstuck in time (very similar to Babylon 5 plot).
Book Number 21: Torchwood - The Twilight Streets by Gary Russell
Hmm, should have been excellent but was sadly lacking.
Book Number 22: Doctor Who - Snowglobe 7 by Mike Tucker
A good book featuring creepy snow spiders.
Book Number 23: The Last Wish by Andrecjz Sapkowski
The first of the Geralt books (the bloke from the PC game, The Witcher). Top format short story collection which sets up the series.
Book Number 24: The Somnambulist by Jonathon Barnes
A really good setting, a really good story. However, an utterly wank unfulfilling ending.
Book Number 25: Bernice Summerfield Missing Adventures - Edited by Rebecca Levene
This book featuring tales of a young Bernice Summerfield started a bit too slow but then got really good as soon as it caught up to the early twenties Benny we’ve seen in the recent books.
Book Number 26: A Murder in Marienburg by David Bishop
This is yet another excellent dark fantasy book set in the Warhammer world. Warhammer has crept ahead of the Realms books in my opinion recently.
Book Number 27: Necromunda: Blood Royale by Gordon Rennie
A fun little book set in the ‘grim future’.
Book Number 28: Doctor Who New Adventure - Cold Fusion by Lance Parkin
An awesome book. It’s not often two Doctor’s are used together well but |Lance Parking does it. The companions are used to great effect in the two concurrent storylines.
Book Number 29: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
An excellent book ! A great start to another psedo-fantasy retelling of the Napolenic wars.
Book Number 30: Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Whilst not as fast paced as the first book an excellent continuation of Temeraire’s story.
Book Number 31: Doctor Who - Shining Darkness by Mark Michalowski
A good enjoyable space-quest type adventure. Really good characterization of Donna and the Doctor.
Book Number 32: Revenge of Captain Paine by Andrew Pepper
The second Pyke Mystery in which Pyke is still a bit too spiteful and horrid to be a likeable anti-hero. Very unexpected ending though, definitely worth reading but if you want this type of book but with a more Sharpe-esque heroic quality then check out…
Book Number 33: Ratcatcher by James McGee
An excellent book, one can almost imagine Harkwood and Jago as Sharpe and Harper after the war. An excellent start to a new series.