When I first saw a tweet about Blood Skies, it was something to do with vampires. Oh yay…MORE vampires. Just what the world needed, I thought. Well, I’d been talking to writer Steven Montano on Twitter and as I got on with him, I thought I’d ignore the vampire thing and read the synopsis anyway. […]
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[Book Review] Crooked Fang
I’ve featured a lot of Crooked Fang on my blog over the past few months, including a guest post from the very delicious Carrie Clevenger about turning blog serials into novels. It’s now my very good honour to feature a review of the book itself! Enjoy… Oh yay, another vampire, I hear you cry. Stop […]
[Book Review] Miles to Little Ridge
Anyone familiar with my blog will know I have a fondness for Westerns – hardly surprising, given my first published book, The Guns of Retribution, falls into the bracket of pulp Westerns. I came across the two Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles collections on Amazon (reviewed here and here), and being a big […]
[Book Review] The Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles Vol. II
Way back in December I posted my review of The Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles, a collection of seven short stories set in the old West. Given how much I enjoyed the first collection, it was hardly surprising that I would also buy the second collection, entitled simply The Adventures of Cash Laramie […]
[Book Review] Blood and Fire
I’ve long been a fan of Carrie Clevenger’s Xan Marcelles, and in this novella, the bassist vampire is marched out of Pale Rider, in Pinecliffe, Colorado, and into a hellish house of mysteries. He’s not the only one – Ashton Kennedy, written by Nerine Dorman, is a being known as an Inkarna (essentially a body […]
[Book Review] The Little Stranger
I picked up The Little Stranger by chance, since it was only £2 in HMV. The fact it’s a ghost story naturally caught my eye, and the fact it’s set in a crumbling old house in the 1940s was a bonus. Written by Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger was published in 2009, and shortlisted for […]
