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Category: Literary Reviews

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…

October 14, 2020

Review: Heirs of the Blade, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 4 out of 5 While this started out slow, I ended up enjoying this volume in the Shadows of the Apt saga far…

October 13, 2020

Review: Icons of England, Bill Bryson

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was tricked. That can’t be right, can it? Well… It’s my fault obviously, but I still feel as…

October 12, 2020

Review: Galatea, Madeline Miller

Rating: 3 out of 5 It’s clear that Ms Miller has a knack for getting Greek myths right—yet, though this short story spoke to…

October 11, 2020

Review: America in the Gilded and Progressive Era, Edward T. O’Donnell

Rating: 2 out of 5 Mr O’Donnell’s scholarship for this work is impressive, no doubt, but I found the presentation complex and illogical. The…

October 10, 2020

Review: The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

Rating: 3 out of 5 I really enjoyed some parts of this—especially the descriptions which linked to how Achilles fared after the death of…

October 9, 2020

Review: The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

Rating: 5 out of 5 Not only was Hiro Arikawa’s work a wonderful investigation of human emotion, I found she also perfectly captured the…

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