Category: Fantasy
Paris By Starlight — Robert Dinsdale
If you’ve enjoyed any of Robert’s previous books then definitely give this a read.
Once again, Robert takes a really challenging, real world issue and wraps it up in wonderful, magical, story telling. This time we’re taken into the world of war refugees who have travelled thousands of miles to find a new home.
As is usual in the real world, the politicians welcome them and say all the usual things that they’re supposed to say, but in the streets there are those who need to hate and any difference to the Paris they claim as their own will not be tolerated.
As with Robert’s previous stories, we also have the PTSD character, Hayk, who finds enemies around every corner.
This story really takes one into the lives and issues of refugees and asylum seekers, and in some places it can be challenging for anyone with a decent heart. People, through no fault of their own have their lives torn apart, their homes destroyed, and lose loved ones and friends to the evils of war. All these people are looking for is a place to be safe and at peace with what remains of their families and friends, something too many of us take for granted.
Well done, Robert.
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The Measure of a Man — Kathleen McClure
I once wrote in another book review that “maybe we could all use a dose of ‘silly’ now and again”; likewise, this is a fun short story that will certainly give you a nice little dose of said silly that you didn’t even realise you so desperately needed in this totally messed up world that you take so seriously.
A rat bites a werewolf in the subway, and yes, just like being bitten by a werewolf things also begin to change when you bite werewolves: even if you are just a tiny subway rat.
All good fun, and with the usual non-stop flowing writing that Kathleen’s so good at.
So stop reading the newspapers over breakfast and getting all depressed about things you can’t do anything about, go download this short story and read it instead, then phone in sick and have a nice, silly day off from your serious lives.
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The Ruins of Oz — Alexia Purdy
Winter — Marissa Meyer
The Starless Sea — Erin Morgenstern
Ghosts in the Graveyard — Kathleen McClure
Holy Sister — Mark Lawrence
A brilliant ending to a really enjoyable trilogy.
It was a slow start in Red Sister, some might even say “tedious” in those early pages, but for those who stick with it you’ll be rewarded well for your reading efforts as the whole trilogy has been a good, slow crescendo all the way to the end, and it’s an end that doesn’t disappoint at all.
If you like really good fantasy with a little sci-fi thrown in then these books will not to disappoint. It’s big, a lot of pages, but it’s well worth all the hours.
Best of all, when you get to the end of the Kindle version you’ll find out that it doesn’t end there. For all us Abeth fans, Mark has just begun a new trilogy with The Girl and the Stars. I am so looking forward to more from this ice world.
Ten out of ten.
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Bound — Mark Lawrence
A novella that fits in between Grey Sister and Holy Sister.
Essentially, it’s just an enjoyable little side escapade for our protagonists as we are all invited to a Sis’, young adults, soiree down in Verity after a series of unexplained poisonings. And we even get the beginnings of some real romance creeping into our story line for Nona: ooh-er!
Yes folks, more of that great action packed shenanigans that we have come to expect from a Sis soiree: all good fun.
