Books tagged with: rape
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![The Face of FearDean Koontz]()
HorrorQuite a small book on the whole, just coming in at over 200 hundred pages but I must admit not one of those pages was wasted, each one moving the story along in a fast paced manner. The book is more suspense than horror or thriller but I do find it sits nicely on the bookshelf amongst his other work...
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![Trinity RisingElspeth Cooper]()
FantasyWhen we left Gair at the end of the spectacular novel Songs of the Earth there had been a pretty big shock. Rather than start where the story left off, Trinity Rising instead follows Teia, a young woman who seems destined to witness great and terrible things. a young woman who has hidden powers few...
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![AxiomaticGreg Egan]()
Science FictionAxiomatic is a collection of science fiction short stories by Greg Egan. Most science fiction fans these days would agree what when it comes to hard science fiction, Greg Egan is one of the best. In ten years he has given us a good handful of novels, all every much driven by the laws of nature, as...
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![Mother of StormsJohn Barnes]()
Science FictionMother of Storms is a science fiction novel by the author John Barnes. I read an article recently saying that the big difference between old (anything not from the last ten years, I guess) and new science fiction is that the old stuff is more about technology and the new stuff is more about people....
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![Shades of EmpireCarmen Webster Buxton]()
Science FictionSet within the same universe as the authors previous novel Tribes, Shades of Empire follows the ex-soldier Alexander Napier, merchant starship captain Madeline Pallestrino and a host of other colourful characters. Alexander still reluctantly wears the marks of his servitude to the Emperor but it's...
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![The Girl in the RoadMonica Byrne]()
Science FictionIn the future world of "A Girl in the Road" global power has shifted and a revolution blows with the easterly wind. It's a future where the technology so long held in the west meets the culture of the east. Into this maelstrom of technology walks Meena, a complicated girl in a complicated world who...
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![Death of an EmpireMK Hume]()
FantasyI have always loved the Arthurian legend, there is something quite special about King Arthur, the Knights of Camelot and of course Merlin, by far my favourite character from the stories. One of my favourite cartoons is still the Disney classic "the Sword in the Stone" and I always look forward to re...
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![EmpressKaren Miller]()
FantasyEmpress is the first volume in the Godspeaker trilogy, written by Australian author Karren Miller. Hekat is a girl treated worse than a slave with a violent father who beats her mother and rapes her repeatedly on the insistence that she should give him more sons. Not even named, she is eventually s...
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![Logic of DemonsH A Goodman]()
FantasyLogic of Demons: The Quest for Nadines Soul is a contemporary fantasy novel by H A Goodman. Devin's life has been ripped to pieces, his wife raped and murdered while still carrying his unborn child, revenge is the only thing that drives his continued existence. He listens as his father-in-law couns...
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![ManrootAnne Steinberg]()
FantasyManroot opens in the spring of 1930 with Katherine Sheahan and her father, Jessie, looking for work in the tourist town of Castlewood, Missouri. Jesse gets a job as a handyman and Katherine as a hotel maid. While her father eventually embraces the drink and disappears, Katherine makes a living for h...
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![RoseannaMaj Sjowall]()
General FictionThis review is written for the Killer Reads website, a fantastic resource for anything crime and thriller related. Originally written in the 1960's by the Swedish author Maj Sjowall and her partner Per Wahlöö, Roseanna is a defining point in the genre of crime fiction, not only founding the a...
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![Zeus Is A DickSusie Donkin]()
General FictionOne man’s truth is another man’s myth and whilst the Greek Gods may have once been worshipped as real, they are now considered by most as myths. This is great for a genre review site as the Greek Gods are as fantastical as they come. They turn themselves and others into an...
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![PomegranatesPriya Sharma]()
Science FictionIn the aftermath of the global pandemic, there is a darkness to the world that has yet to retreat. The way in which writers approach their craft in this moment is crucial. Some are electing to ignore it in the stories that they create, whilst others embrace the context directly in their work. In gen...
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