Synopsis: 17th century London, Benjamin Weaver, ex-boxer, thieftaker and general rogue is blackmailed by a mysterious figure into investigating a plot surrounding the East India Trade Company. Conspiracies on conspiracies abound, as Weaver investigates. Review: I'm a fan enough of this book that I...
This is a book written for science fiction fans, in more ways than one. Zeke (the mc) is selected, along with three of Earth's most talented young people, by the Confederation of United Planets to live on their space station for a year. When the Confederation evaluates a species, they always choos...
Modern life seems to have a soundtrack for everything. Even crime.CRIME + MUSIC: The Sounds of Noir, collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors Brendan DuBois, Alison Gaylin, Craig Johnson, David Liss, Val McDermid, Gary Phillips, Peter Robinson and,...
For my Summer Book Bingo card we had to read a comic or graphic novel. My son has just recently showed interest in comic books so I picked one of his- Mystery Men. It's the first book in a five book mini-series that was written in 2011. It featured all new pulp-era characters set in Marvel continuit...
This is what I've finished so far...“Pipers” by Christopher GoldenOh my, this just super grade A creepy! Though you get at a closer look at what is really going on with the Mexican Cartels, and the people that it immediately affects. David Liss’s “A Bad Season for Necromancy,”Oh wow! Wow, wow, wow, ...
I was given a free copy for an honest review.This book contains two novellas. Paleo is a strange story about a group of men who are on the paleo diet and live like cavemen. A middle-aged man joins the group and finds out just how powerful the spirit animals are.The second story is about preppers. A ...
When I entered into this giveaway to read this book I was in love with not only the title but the cover as well it just CALLED to me. Now it took me a while before I could read it as we all know my book list is long! Now when I started the book we are given an introduction by Christopher Golden on ...
It wasn't great. It wasn't terrible. If you find you want to read this book, I won't stop you but I will warn you there are other books out there. Books that are probably more deserving of your time. The characters in this book were blah. They were just there because a story requires people. I didn'...
This is all about doing a soft reboot. The Shadow now operates in the modern day, but there's a lack of courage to really modernize the character. Disappointing.
This review is about Kelley Armstrong's "Suffer the Children" only. I picked this up just for her story. I liked the idea behind the novella (each author had to write a story based on this: "A strange visitor comes to town, offering to raise the townsfolk's dearly departed from the dead- for a price...
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