Literary Reviews – Page 27

December 19, 2020

Review: Dead Mountain, Donnie Eichar

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was impressed when I originally heard of the author’s goal: to retrace the steps of the lost Dyatlov…

December 16, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 I enjoyed the previous two volumes in this series—though the second one was a step below the first book….

December 13, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 I’m not in two minds after finishing this book—but I can’t deny that when I started it sounded a…

December 8, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 Both Attlee and Churchill were the giants of their time, there is no doubt about that. One might doubt…

December 3, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 The Satsuma Rebellion, or at least its Hollywood version in ‘The Last Samurai’, is probably known to many but…

November 27, 2020

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

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

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

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

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