Category: Books

The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp Review

Jack Sparks died while writing this book. Cheerful eh? The Last Days of Jack Sparks follows the popular, social media obsessed star as he researches his latest book about the supernatural, trying to find evidence that ghosts and spirits actually exist. As time goes on things get truly...
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Bite by K.S.Merbeth Review

Now this is an idea I can get behind – a mashup of Borderlands and Mad Max. In Bite we follow a teenage girl, picked up but a small gang in the middle of the desert and taken along to a small town where things soon go a...
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Revenger by Alastair Reynolds Review

Revenger takes a little while to get going. There’s a few words dotted around which clearly have importance (and indeed, come to form the basis of the story) which aren’t explained until later, and as such it would be easy to switch off and read something else. But,...
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The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone Review

Spiders. Lots of Spiders. A whole river of spiders in fact. Spiders that eat people, burst out of people, and act in a way that spiders don’t tend to act. In case you missed the point of that first paragraph, The Hatching is all about a race of...
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Undercover by Joe Carter Review

Joe spent over twenty years working in the murky world of a British undercover police officer. He fraternised with thieves, international drugs and arms dealers, he worked along side some pretty dangerous criminals and some pretty shady characters, he was always in fear of his life as it...
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Armada by Ernest Cline Review

Anyone who enjoyed Ready Player One has probably heard of Armada, the book which followed from author Ernest Cline. Again, the focus here is on video games, this time focussing on a college kid who balances his job in a games shop with school, playing his favourite space...
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Broken Hero by Jonathan Wood Review

Arthur Wallace is back with MI37, and this time he’s got a simple matter of some Nazi-built robots to deal with, some of which are hell-bent on ending most of humanity with a fairly hefty bomb. The fourth book in the Hero series, Broken Hero picks up not long...
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