Books tagged with: epistolary
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![Apocalypse: Diary of a SurvivorMatt Pike]()
Science FictionApocalypse novels are all the rage these days, and with good reason, as any rational person can sense that we are rapidly approaching some kind of great calamity. There are plenty of choices: climate change, rapidly depleting resources, drug resistant disease, or even a straight up revolution of the...
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![CrossedEvelyn Blackwell]()
Science FictionCrossed is riding the heights of topical subjects, that of environment, ecology and global warming. In the very near future a cartoon is created that will ultimately change the world. It follows the adventures of a sea turtle who crosses the ocean and encounters other marine life struggling within a...
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![Garden of RamaArthur C Clarke]()
Science FictionThese books are the third and fourth in the Rama series (number one being Rendezvous with Rama and number two being Rama II). I have decided to review them together - as they should be read together and right after each other. If you haven't read the first two Rama books, do not read these books and...
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![Luna for the LuniesIra Nayman]()
Science FictionReview by Luis Villazon. Ira Nayman bills himself as the proprietor of the “Alternate Reality News Service”, a sort of Reuters for the multiverse. This collection of short stories is structured like a newspaper, with technology stories, crime reports, obituaries and advice columns supplied by ARNS c...
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![Among OthersJo Walton]()
FantasyAmong Others is about as different from any novel I have read than the Moon is from a piece of pie. It's not even a book I thought I would enjoy either, if someone had approached me and asked me to read a novel about a 15 year old girls account of her life in a boarding school - delivered in the...
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![The Supernatural EnchancementsEdgar Cantero]()
FantasyQuirky, accomplished and a great deal of fun, The Supernatural Enchancements is a solid, unusual novel. The premise of the story is the protagonist (known only as A) inherits the American estate "Axton House" following the death of his second cousin "Uncle" Ambrose, whom A had never met or even kne...
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![World War ZMax Brooks]()
FantasyA Zombie novel by the son of comic legend Mel Brooks, World War Z is told as a series of interconnected interviews from survivors of the zombie war all over the world. This method of storytelling is very different, there is no central protagonist or contiguous plot, instead we learn about the story...
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![The ThreeSarah Lotz]()
HorrorOn a single day that will come to be known as "Black Thursday" four passenger planes crash at almost the same time at four different points around the world. Each crash has one single survivor, three children who emerge from the wreckage seemingly unhurt and Pamela May Donald who lives just long en...
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![CottingleyAlison Littlewood]()
FantasyMy second review of the Newcon Press Novella series released in Autumn 2017. This is a set of four stories. The Wind by Jay Caselberg, Cottingley by Alison Littlewood, Body in the Woods by Sarah Lotz and Case of the Bedeviled Poet A Sherlock Holmes Enigma, by Simon Clark. Cottingley by Alison Lit...
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![Sleeping GiantsSylvain Neuvel]()
Science FictionI missed reviewing Sleeping Giants when it first came out. I've finally got round to picking up a copy to find out it's now been out long enough that there are two further novels in the series: Waking Gods and Only Human. Back in 2016 It was one of those break-out novels such as The Martian...
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![Missing PersonSarah Lotz]()
General FictionThe crime genre is a well-trodden one, so much so that anyone who reads the genre exclusively may find themselves jaded by similar storylines occurring over and over again. One way to excite both author and reader is to try and find new approaches. How about a crime novel told entirely from the pris...
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![The Cottingley CuckooA J Elwood]()
HorrorFairies are not real. If they were we would have more evidence of them than a suspect looking photo taken by a couple of Victorian School Girls. However, Fairies are just brighter than you think. Why would they risk being seen by humans who have in recent years pro...
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![The Butcher's DaughterCorinne Leigh Clark]()
HorrorI enjoy a retelling of a classic tale from an unfamiliar perspective. I have read about Sherlock Holmes from the point of view of almost everyone he ever met. I have read about Beowulf written by his niece. King Authur, Robin Hood, many others, but never a character as dark as Sweeny Todd. The Demon...
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![AwakenedLaura Elliott]()
Science FictionScience has taken humans to amazing places, prolonged our lives, made living better, but it has also created great harm. Have some diseases been developed in a lab then released, on purpose or by accident? Perhaps legitimate research led to tragic mistakes. In the world of Laura Elliott’s Awak...
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![BasiliskMatt Wixey]()
HorrorI have read thousands of books, and they normally follow the same structural rules, but on occasion an author likes to experiment with the format. Perhaps they will forgo the need for speech marks and instead write people speaking as part of a sentence. No thanks. What about telling the story as a s...
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