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October 26, 2025

Review: Blood of the Mantis, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 4 out of 5 Overall, this is a decent continuation of the series! I like Che’s adventures in Solarno quite a bit more…

October 21, 2025

Rating: 5 out of 5 In truth, I had forgotten to follow my standard procedure: to review a book before starting another in the…

October 19, 2025

Rating: 5 out of 5 ‘Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen’ is not my first Wodehouse book. Ever since picking one up some years ago (‘My Man…

October 17, 2025

Rating: 4 out of 5 This is not my first time to read this book or this series. It might, in fact, be the…

October 5, 2025

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Shiba’s writings are definitely in the top when looking at historical fiction, or historical journalism as the author’s…

October 2, 2025

Rating: 4 out of 5 The story of the White Ship (Blanche-Nef) is probably mentioned to some degree in most histories of England as…

September 9, 2025

Rating: 5 out of 5 I found the book very interesting altogether, though I rather picked it up because I wanted to read something…

September 3, 2025

Rating: 5 out of 5 I picked this book and author up because of her participation in the Empire podcast where I found the…

August 17, 2025

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 I’ve generally really liked Mr White’s overviews as they are relatively light-hearted but still informative. I began the plane…

August 13, 2025

Rating: 2 out of 5 I think this is an okay introduction into the Austrian (and Austro-Hungarian) state, but at the same time there’s…