SCI-FI & FANTASY BOOK REVIEWER… …and struggling writer.

Archive for September 2008

Book Review - The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code

By Robert Rankin
Our story opens with Jonny Hooker’s body - minus head - found floating in the ornamental pond at Gunnersbury Park. This is of great concern to the park rangers, the police and sundry others and thus we spend the next 300 pages following the story the led to Jonny’s demise.
It starts when [...]

Book Review - The Name Of The Wind

By Patrick Rothfuss
Sometimes, it just feels right to wait until all the hype has died down before picking up a debut by a new fantasy author. As a huge fan of the genre, it’s all too easy to get carried away with the groundswell of opinion and give an okay book more credit than [...]

Book Review - Iron Angel

By Alan Campbell

It wasn’t long ago that I posted a review of Scar Night, the first of Alan Campbell’s Deepgate Codex and I remember being totally bowled over by a book that was dark, complex and hugely imaginative. Iron Angel, thankfully, continues in exactly that vain.
Central to the story is the historic war between [...]

Book Review - Strangled Silence

By Oisin McGann
Proving that he’s nothing if not versatile, this latest novel from Dublin-born Oisin McGann is a taut political thriller that centres around the country’s continued involvement in a far-away war. Set in London of the near-future, the population are living under the control of the Drawbridge Act which has eroded civil liberties [...]