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TW feels that this story is going in the wrong direction
Dear Publishing, can we just stop now? NOW? Last decade would be better, but now will do ( Read more... ) -
TWR, with great delight: Edward Marston: The Merry Devils
This is the second volume in a series of mysteries set in an Elizabethan theatre ( Read more... ) -
TW skims: James Lee Burke: A Morning for Flamingos
This book was a freebie, and it's walking out the door mostly unread ( Read more... ) -
TWR: Dudley Pope, Ramage & the Rebels
I have a weakness for Age of Sail fiction. I don't read a lot of it, but I come from a seafaring family - my grandfather was a captain - so while I've never been on a tall ship under sail (and would not be able to negotiate the rigging), I soaked up a fair amount of sea stories and, well, general ambience ( Read more... ) -
TW never expected to find so much fail in one package
So. Ian Whates, The Noise Within. People - including Neil Asher, Stephen Baxter (who gave cover blurbs - guess whose books I won't pick up after this?) and the editor who bought this - must have seen something in this book ( Read more... ) -
TWR with great enjoyment: Kat Richardson: Poltergeist
(Greywalker Volume 2 ( Read more... ) -
TWR reads, for fairness sakes, Ian Whates: The Noise Within
Ian Whates, with his editorial hat on, recently came to the attention of the blogosphere as the editor of an anthology with 17 male contributors and 4 female ones ( Read more... ) -
TW was not part of the conversation
Steve Cockayne: The Iron Chain (Legends of the Land Book Two)
I picked this up on a charity table. It's published by Orbit, blurbed by SFX, Interzone, and China Miéville among others, contains The Iron Chain [...] confirms Steve Chockayne's place at the head of the new generation of great fantasy fiction writers.. Considering I'd never heard of ( Read more... ) -
TWR with delight: Edward Marston: The Repentant Rake
*Not* a book from the 'to review' shelf; a book from the 'I have two books I really want to buy, I need another for the special offer' shelf ( Read more... )