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Month: November 2020

November 27, 2020

Review: Viking Britain, Tom Williams

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was disappointed in this. Norse influence in Britain is a wonderfully intricate subject, so to begin a book…

November 26, 2020

Review: The Last Emperox, John Scalzi

Rating: 5 out of 5 Perfect ending to this trilogy though perhaps difficult to describe without giving too much away. Suffice to say that…

November 25, 2020

Review: Lords of the Desert, James Barr

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Barr has the quality of being able to find the most outrageous anecdotal incidences that led to an…

November 24, 2020

Review: Seal of the Worm, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 4 out of 5 The long-awaited end of the series (well, if one was the reader…). The ending let me down, but as…

November 23, 2020

Review: Between the Rivers, Alexis Q. Castor

Rating: 3 out of 5 The rating is for the content and not the presentation… Having investigated Ancient Egypt last year, it felt reasonable…

November 22, 2020

Review: The Consuming Fire, John Scalzi

Rating: 5 out of 5 I enjoyed this! The action continues with Grayland more certain than previously that the end for the Interdependency is…

November 21, 2020

Review: War Master’s Gate, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 3 out of 5 This volume continued the trend from the previous book—a trend by which the rapid technological advancement of both the…

November 20, 2020

Review: The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Scalzi was first recommended to me a number of years ago—having now finished the Interdependency books, it’s to…

November 18, 2020

Review: The Air War, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 5 out of 5 This was Mr Tchaikovsky at his best. It’s not a few weeks since I finished this book, but the…

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