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Spaceside by Michael Mammay
SPACESIDE follows on two years after the events that take place the end of Planetside without so much as missing a beat. And Mammay doesn’t play catch up, like some authors might do, but goes straight to Butler having to deal with the aftermath of his decision—having become the most infamous person in the galaxy.…
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The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett
This debut novel from the imaginative and decidedly twisted mind of S J Bennett is one of the best reads I’ve had this year, and that’s saying something given the quality of reads I’ve had of late. But what Bennett has done is capture the essence of Her Majesty, QEII, and turned her into a…
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Zombie Cults
Truly, it’s quite frightening when you stop to think about it, organised religions are nothing short of zombie cults. Nearly everyone of them promotes and pushes the premise of us all being resurrected at some future point, to the greater glory of the whatever god (small g) it is they’re pushing. They’re resurrecting what, exactly?…
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The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan
Inspector Ashwin Chopra (Retd) a former member of the Mumbai police, is now one of my favourite characters. In this second installment of the Baby Ganesh series, we find Chopra settling into retirement as a private investigator, working out of an office in his new digs, a restaurant named after his wife, Poppy. This wonderful…
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Little Things #5
at the botanic gardens So another week fades into the rearview mirror of my life and what were the highlights this week? Well, I can’t say it was the weather and, yet, we had some lovely warm sunny days. I’ve cooked from scratch dinners all this week in an effort to get back to some…
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The Silenced by Anders de la Motte
There are, I am sure, plenty of well written books that I have yet to read, but until I discover them THE SILENCED by Anders de la Motte has to be one of the best plotted novels I’ve ever read. Certainly up there with the best of them. Showing a depth and skill mastered by…
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Bring on the Fantasy
Not all fantasy has to be grim. After having a back and forth chat with an online friend about fantasy reads, I admitted I had never read GRRM and was not likely too, ever. The truth is I’ve not read a great deal of fantasy over the last 4-5 years and it took the likes…
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The Silent Girls by Erik Rickstad (DNF)
I can’t go on. I mean it, I simply cannot go on … reading this book. This is one long monotonous boring read. It’s the equivalent of a long straight driveway covered in grey chippings. This endless ribbon of uniform grey that stretches off into the distance, hard and uneven under foot, unyielding in form…
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Botanic Gardens
botanic gardens We woke up to perfect clear blue skies and 16C at 7:30am, so I knew I had to get out as soon as possible and hoof it around the botanic gardens. I haven’t been for what seems like weeks. And I so wanted to see if the peony garden was in bloom yet. …
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The Liar by Steve Cavanagh
The one thing you can be certain of when reading a Steve Cavanagh, Eddie Flynn novel, is great plotting. Always cleverly twisted with plenty of red herrings, mis-directs, and side-bars to make you wonder where the plot’s heading next. And so it is with THE LIAR the third in the Eddie Flynn series of legal…
dandelion
a prolific weed