Michelle Herbert reviews Blood Ink by Dana Fredsti… Blood Ink is the second novel in the Lilith series and follows on from the events of The Spawn of Lilith. When we meet Lee again, she is struggling with being independent and paying her own way. Lee has been effectively blacklisted from working on movie sets […]
Book Review – Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
Michelle Herbert reviews Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield… Once upon a time, there was a pub on the river near Oxford where stories are told. People have been telling stories at The Swan since the 1300s. Five hundred years later it looks like The Swan is about to become the setting for a […]
Book Review – The Possible World by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz
Michelle Herbert reviews The Possible World by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz… The Possible World is a book that is hard to pigeonhole, which is a good thing. It is a book that focuses on three protagonists, each with their own lives and stories which slowly shows how they are each connected. The Possible World, lets us […]
Book Review – The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
Michelle Herbert reviews The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas… The Psychology of Time Travel begins in 1967 when four women manage to develop a way to travel through time. There are a few rules that seem to be unyielding; you can only travel to places where the machine has been built and is […]
Book Review – Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
Michelle Herbert reviews Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill… Sea of Rust is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It is unlike many post-apocalyptic settings that we have read before, as humanity has been decimated and all those surviving in the Sea of Rust are robots. Some, those known as freebots were created by humanity, […]
Book Review – I Still Dream by James Smythe
Michelle Herbert reviews I Still Dream by James Smythe… I Still Dream is a thought-provoking novel that will get under your skin. It begins in 1997 with Laura and the computer programme she has created, known as Organon. Laura is in many ways a typical teenage, racking up the phone bill and making meaningful mixtapes. […]
Book Review – The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross by Lisa Tuttle
Michelle Herbert reviews The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross by Lisa Tuttle… The second investigation of Jesperson and Lane follows on from the events of The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief. It starts with a stranger knocking on their door who as soon as the door is opened, […]
Book Review – Before Mars by Emma Newman
Michelle Herbert reviews Before Mars by Emma Newman… Before Mars is the third novel in the Planetfall Series, this book is set almost concurrently with the events of After Atlas. I don’t think it will matter if you read either After Atlas before or after Before Mars as they are very different stories, but I […]
Book Review – Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima
Michelle Herbert reviews Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima… Territory of Light was written and set in 1970’s Japan and is split into twelve segments that move from piece to piece picking up the plot sometimes months after the last section ended. We follow the story of a woman who finds herself having to find […]
Book Review – The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan
Michelle Herbert reviews The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan… The Gloaming is one of those books filled with mystery and wonder. Unlike a fairy tale, that doesn’t mean that everything is good, as lots of bad things happen. The Gloaming is a book full of stories that people tell each other and the truths they omit […]
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