Rambo: last blood dir. by Adrian Grunberg
I was very doubtful about this film. The first Rambo First Blood is a classic. And for an action film it has an actual political message. But with every sequel that...
27 September 2019
The poison song by Jen Williams
The Winnowing flame trilogy ; book3 If you’re into your fantasy fiction being epic, your heroes being full of humour and violence, and your bad guys out to utterly destroy the...
23 September 2019
Throne of Eldraine: the wildered quest by Kate Elliott
This book is set in the Magic: the gathering multiverse, a game/’verse I know nothing about apart from the fact that it is a card game of some description. So I...
18 September 2019
A brightness long ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
It has been over ten years since I’ve read a Kay book! Or at least the last post on the blog reviewing a Kay book is more than ten years old,...
6 September 2019
The consuming fire by John Scalzi
The Interdependency #2 You know, I thought I’d reviewed the first book in this series The collapsing Empire last year when I read it, but I can find no trace of...
13 August 2019
The invasion by Peadar Ó Guilín
Grey Lands #2 After reading The call I was happy with how the story ended. I’ll admit, I thought that certain things had come to an end, but in The Invasion...
13 August 2019
Children of blood and bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Legacy of Orïsha #1 I added this book to Mount TBR back in 2018, but it took it being nominated for Not-a-Hugo-but-the-Lodestar to get me to read it. Back then Ana...
13 August 2019
The call by Peadar Ó Guilín
Grey Land #1 Ireland has been cut off from the rest of the world. No ships, no planes. No email contact, not even radio waves make it in or out of...
5 August 2019
Beneath the sugar sky by Seanan McGuire
Wayward Children #3 So usually I’ve never have read this without starting at number 1 in the series. But the description says stand alone, and it was on the Hugo shortlist...
4 August 2019
Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher
I just don’t know how Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher, does it. Every single book/story by her I’ve read I’ve loved, and usually read far too quickly as I try to...
4 August 2019
Ardulum : first don by J. S. Fields
Ardulum book one I can’t quite remember where or why I picked this book up. I would guess I saw it mentioned on twitter and forgot to tag it so the...
13 July 2019
Centurion dir. by Neil Marshall
Writ & Dir: Neil Marshall
I love and adore Dog Soldiers. And The Decent was pretty damn good too Of course Doomsday was utterly preposterous but you win some, you lose some. And I was still prepared to take a chance on Neil Marshall, especially when the story is about Roman soldiers on the run in the second century. I mean it had to be better than King Arthur, right?
4 July 2019
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