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Shadow of the Colossus – Video Game Review
Thanks to Sony’s marvelous PSN Plus service, I recently got the chance to play Shadow of the Colossus, one of the great classics of the Playstation 2 era that, in my humble opinion, stands marvelously to the test of time. Everything in the game is extremely minimalistic. The opening scene shows us the hero riding […]
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
Welcome back to Low Town and the world of the Warden, a disgraced secret police enforcer turned drug dealer. It’s not a place for the faint-hearted but for anyone who likes things just a little on the dangerous side, it’s well worth the trip–as anyone who’s read Polansky’s previous two novels, The Straight Razor Cure […]
Happy Hour in Hell by Tad Williams
Happy Hour in Hell sees angel Doloriel–AKA Bobby Dollar–make a welcome return, following on from his adventures in The Dirty Streets of Heaven. If you haven’t already pounded those pavements with Bobby, you’d best look away now to avoid any spoilers. Bobby’s as down on his luck as any man can be, even one with […]
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Are you ready for adventure, magic and drug fuelled dragons? Come sit down with Kvothe and get consumed in his world. The blurb alone is enough to convince anyone to read this book; it pulls you in with the promise of all these great adventures yet at the opening of the book this legendary Kvothe […]
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol (Translated by Michael Biggins)
‘Nothing is true, everything is permitted.’ – The Supreme Ismaili Motto Alamut is an impenetrable fortress which houses a small Ismaili army ruled by the enigmatic Hasan ibn Sabbah. He is a charismatic yet elusive master. The subjects of Hasan ibn Sabbah, also called Sayyiduna, are in awe of their master on many different levels–some […]
She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky
Editor’s Note: This review contains minor spoilers for the entire Low Town trilogy. If you search for “define warden” on Google, you’ll get the following: a person responsible for the supervision of a particular place or thing or for ensuring that regulations associated with it are obeyed. Clearly, The Warden was not misnamed. She Who […]
The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wild Girls is a Nebula award-winning novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, republished in 2011. It follows the story of two girls kidnapped and sold into slavery as children, and their subsequent haunting by the ghost of a baby that died in the same raid. The rest of this neat little book contains a […]
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
Because this is the first review of Red Country (that I’m aware of) and we’ve been given the exclusive trailer, which you can see above – this review is a cross between an advanced preview and a review. VERY little has been said about Abercrombie’s latest book so I wanted to lift the veil (not […]
Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama – Manga vs Anime
One of this season’s anime sensations is based on Hajime Isayama’s manga with the same title, Attack on Titan. The series has been called a “one-in-a-decade hit” with its extremely popular anime adaptation, followed by over 20 million manga copies sold in Japan. The Attack on Titan anime has won multiple awards (e.g. Newtype Anime […]
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is a very well crafted debut novel. I think the major component that sets it apart is the truly alien feel that you get from Breq’s perspective. Who is Breq? Well, that’s where the story gets interesting. Breq is not used to being an individual as we think of individuals. […]
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
A few weeks ago, I picked up my paperback copy of Alice in Wonderland and smiled, but then I saw another version of this tale that I have read countless times before. The world of Alice in Wonderland has always interested me; the card soldiers, the spirit danes, the Red Queen with her standard, ‘OFF […]
The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
If you want your Arthurian legend splattered with mud and blood, read The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell. I love Arthurian tales for the nobility, the tragedy, the love that destroys, the love that heals, and the heroism that fades into the mists with a promise to return. In the superb rendition Mists of Avalon, […]
