Category: Book Reviews
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Teaser Tuesday (December 8)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab…
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The Leper House, by Andrew Taylor. A review
Reading The Leper House it finally occurred to me why I was never fond of the novella format, at least when it’s a stand-alone and…
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Worldbuilding for SF – A Writer’s Guide, review
“The classic advice to writers is “Write about what you know.” But if you’re a science fiction writer, you often write about what you…
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SF Classics – The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut is a SF novel portraying a Martian invasion of Earth. Its main theme is free will, and…
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Dark Star by Oliver Langmead. A review
Dark Star is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting books published in 2015, for many reasons: it’s SF, yet built with the pace and the…
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Top Ten Tuesday (September 1) – Top Ten Characters you just didn’t click with
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish, where each week bloggers are given a new Top Ten…
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Top Ten Tuesday (August 18) – Top Ten Autobuy Authors
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish (we are all fond of lists, aren’t we?), where each…
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Liesmith by Alis Franklin. A review
I normally do not like fantasy or even retelling of ancient myths: even when the writing is good, it’s difficult to be fresh and…
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The Damned by Andrew Pyper. Book Review
You can’t say Andrew Piper’s new novel has an original title. Checking on Amazon I have found a few books with identical or similar names…
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Deaths of Tao, Rebirths of Tao – Wesley Chu’s amazing trilogy.
I have already written – rather enthusiastically – about the first instalment of this trilogy, The Lives of Tao, saying that the book is an innovative example…
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Shade of horrors: The Girl Next Door
I was recently discussing with some friends about our favourite horror novels and more precisely which specific kind of horror each one of us…
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Song of Kali, by Dan Simmons – Book Review
In SF fandom Dan Simmons is especially known for the Hyperion Cantos series, and with a reason: those books, especially the first two – Hyperion and…
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VOSTOK – A review
It’s my turn now for the Vostok Blog Tour, presented by iRead Book Tours and that have kindly supplied an ARC of Vostok in…
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Forthcoming on EHM blog – reviews
Busy time ahead, and the books piling up on my desk are now starting to look like the Great Wall. Some are ARCs from Netgalley, others…
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The Ruins by Scott Smith. A review
If jungles, unspeakable monstrosities and places in the middle of nowhere are regular components of your nightmares, search no longer: this is the horror…
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Dangerous Games, an anthology – Book Review
Dangerous Games is an interesting collection of SFF short stories – there are eighteen of them, for a total of 320 pages put together by Jonathan…
