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

Posts Tagged ‘historic’

Lavinia

In Book Reviews, Fantasy on 20 November 2009 tagged fantasy, historic, Lavinia, novel, review, Ursula LeGuin with no comments

I’ve had this book sitting on my pile for a while now and I while I thought I ought to read it - it’s had rave reviews everywhere - it really didn’t grab me. Now that I’ve read it I have to say my first impressions were right but I seem to be in [...]

The Secret War

In Book Reviews, Fantasy on 16 February 2009 tagged author, book, debut, fantasy, historic, MFW Curran, novel, review, The Secret War, writer with no comments

I’ve got several piles of books around the house. There’s the pile of absolute, definite must reads - it’s a short pile because whatever is on it tends to get devoured pretty quickly - then there’s the ‘never-in-a-million-years’ pile of books that, for one reason or another, I’ll never read but will inevitably donate [...]