Note: This copy of City on Fire: A Novel of Hong Kong was provided by NetGalley. City on Fire by Simon Elegant is the story that’s hard to put into any one box. Off the top it seems like a police-procedural crime thriller, but it is so much more. Taking place in a Hong Kong …
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Note: This copy of Startup Hell was provided by NetGalley. Let me just start this by saying I did not expect to like this as much as I did. I really picked this book up as a palate cleanser. The premise sounded interesting, and a supernatural romcom seemed like a good way to reset. Instead …
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Note: This copy of Murder Like Clockwork was provided by NetGalley. This book follows the events of the first book in the series 10 Marchfield Square. We’re thrown back into the community of Marchfield Square where our ever mysterious but genial residents yet again find themselves embroiled in a mystery. This time though, the focus …
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Matt Dinniman is fast becoming a must-read author after being catapulted into the stratosphere with his Dungeon Crawler Carl Series. Operation Bounce House is a tad bit different in that it is a completely different genre from the LitRPG books he is more recently known for. Operation Bounce House is a sci-fi dystopian novel set …
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Note: This copy of Mage Mangler was provided by NetGalley Mage Mangler by Kevin Sinclair was much better than I expected it to be. That's not to say I expected a bad book but that with most LitRPGs these days there is usually a formulaic path that very few stray from. While this book doesn't …
The Running Man by Richard Bachman / Stephen King is a 1982 dystopian sci-fi novel that recently came back into the spotlight with the new movie of the same name starring Hollywood's recent darling Glen Powell. While I'm sure the movie is bound to be a action extravaganza, I was more curious about reading the …
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Note: This copy of Gabby Greene Knows Whodunit was provided by NetGalley. I’ve come to realise that despite my love for fantasy and sci-fi, I always find myself coming back to mysteries on occasion as a palette cleanser. This book caught my eye and felt like it would be the ideal cosy break from what …
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Note: This copy of The Impossible Detective was provided by NetGalley. Let me preface this review by saying this book left me with mixed feelings. The Impossible Detective by Bob Reiss has a very interesting premise. A young girl is witness to an autonomous vehicle hitting somebody, not once but twice, and then casually driving …
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Note: This copy of Borderlands: Debt or Alive was provided by NetGalley. If you're looking for anything on a slightly absurd scale with a healthy dose of action and humour, the borderlands franchise never fails to disappoint. While the games were a bit much for me at the time, this book has me considering picking …
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Note: This copy of Hekate: The Witch was provided by NetGalley. There has been a preponderance of books around deities recently and while none have really piqued my interest, this book on Hekate, did. This was partly because Hekate, the goddess of witchcraft and necromancy, appears in the game Hades 2 as the mentor to …
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Note: This copy of The Hungry Gods was provided by NetGalley. The Hungry Gods is a sci-fi dystopian novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky that is, I believe, a part of his Terrible Worlds: Innovations series of novellas. My first foray into the author’s works was with Dogs of War, and I absolutely loved that book. That …
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Note: This copy of A Practical Guide to Evil I was provided by NetGalley. Originally serialised on the web, A Practical Guide to Evil is a very interesting take on the heroes vs villains trope. The series is set in a world where evil has been reigning for the last 20 years. While this may be …
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Note: This copy of The Burning Stones was provided by NetGalley. With a blurb touting the author as the funniest writer in Europe, it'll come as no surprise as to why I picked up this book. The Burning Stones is humourous murder-mystery novel set in Finland. The story follows Anni Korpinen, one of the top …
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Note: This copy of The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam was provided by NetGalley. I went into this book fairly blind. I had heard of the author and that another book of her's was quite popular in the romantasy genre, and so I wanted to give this book a whirl. I was a bit unsure in …
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Note: This copy of The List was provided by NetGalley. I initially picked up this book to serve as nothing more than a palate cleanser from the urban fantasy train I've been riding for a while. This was my first Steve Berry novel which is surprising since he occupies the same space as other noteworthy …
Note: This copy of Murder on Friday Street was provided by NetGalley. Murder on Friday Street by Russell Cooper is a charming cosy murder-mystery set in an idyllic village in England around the early 2000s. The plot follows a now 28 year old woman, Charlie, who had lost her father over a decade before in a …
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All Better Now by Neal Shusterman is a dystopian novel with more than a passing nod at the COVID pandemic. The story revolves around this virus that seems to be spreading that leaves the people that survive the initial fever stage with a deep sense of calm and happiness. They feel no negative emotions and …
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Note: This copy of The Floating World was provided by NetGalley. The Floating World by Axie Oh is a romantic fantasy that hits just the right notes. It is said to be the reimagining of the Korean Legend of Celestial Maidens involving a human who tricks a nymph into marriage. Our protagonists are Sunho, an …
This book left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand I really quite enjoyed the premise, but on the other hand I feel I may have given myself some unjustified expectations of this being something similar to Jurassic Park. It didn't help that the previous thriller I picked up was Eruption by the late …
What happens when a movie starts production for a book before the latter is even published? You get a hell of a lot of publicity, and an air of intrigue and mystery surrounding both. Argylle is the story of (Secret?) Agent Aubrey Argylle and it is interesting, but not in a good way. Full disclosure, …