Michelle Herbert reviews Friendly Fire by Gavin G Smith… Friendly Fire is the second novel in Gavin G Smith’s The Bastard Legion series, this started with the novel The Bastard Legion or when I reviewed it The Hangman’s Daughter. My review of that book can be found here, spoilers for that book will be mentioned […]
Book Review – The Switch by Justina Robson
Michelle Herbert reviews The Switch by Justina Robson… The Switch throws you straight into its story, where we find Nico, the main character, standing before a judge about to be sentenced to death for a crime he cannot remember committing. On the way to Nico’s execution, we follow Nico’s life story from his time at […]
Book Review – The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
Michelle Herbert reviews The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel… The Roanoke Girls is a deeply insidious story told from the perspective of Lane Roanoke, a girl who had grown up with an emotionally abusive mother. When Lane’s mother kills herself Lane is sent to live with her grandparents at Roanoke (the house is named after the […]
Book Review – The Spawn of Lilith by Dana Fredsti
Michelle Herbert reviews The Spawn of Lilith by Dana Fredsti… The Spawn of Lilith feels like a slightly different take on urban fantasy, where instead of a young woman being thrown into a world she never knew existed, this world is part of her everyday existence. Set in Los Angeles and focusing on stuntmen and […]
Book Review – Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan
Michelle Herbert reviews Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan… Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore starts unsurprisingly, with the store closing at midnight. We meet the main character, Lydia, almost immediately as she checks to see if a regular (Joey) is still in the store or not. Unfortunately, when she finds […]
Book Review – Godblind by Anna Stephens
Michelle Herbert reviews Godblind by Anna Stephens… Godblind is set in a world that has become complacent in their trust that the Red Gods will remain in exile. We are told very quickly that the Red Gods were banished almost 1000 years ago, during this time the Gods of Light have kept the people of […]
Book Review – Relics by Tim Lebbon
Michelle Herbert reviews Relics by Tim Lebbon… Relics is one of those books that you’re not really sure what to expect from, at the start we are introduced to Angela, who is being interrogated by the police. We are not told why she has been arrested or why they believe she is involved in a […]
Book Review – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Michelle Herbert reviews Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman… Eleanor Oliphant is Gail Honeyman’s debut novel and it is a powerful and astounding novel. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first started reading the story but soon found that I couldn’t put it down. There were so many layers to the […]
Book Review – Greatest Hits by Laura Barnett
Michelle Herbert reviews Greatest Hits by Laura Barnett… Some writers are good at writing about life, this was seen in Laura Barnett’s debut: Versions of Us. In which Barnett told a story with three versions of a life, each shaped by one chance encounter, being told three times with one minor change, this sent Barnett’s […]
Book Review – All Our Wrongs Today by Elan Mastai
Michelle Herbert reviews All Our Wrongs Today by Elan Mastai… Tom Berren, has messed up the present, or at least his present, as he now inhabits the present we have always known. Tom grew up in what we would think of as a post-scarcity utopia. People still work in that reality, but they work to […]
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