by Helen | Dec 31, 2023 | Book reviews
The fourth entry in the Stranger Times series starts with someone floating above Manchester. Until they stop floating and land very messily at the feet of one of our main characters… Once again the staff of supernatural happenings magazine ‘The Stranger...
by Helen | Nov 10, 2023 | Book reviews
Another good read in this series. Book 2 picks up directly from the end of book 1 and I wouldn’t advise trying to read it as a standalone if you want to make the most of the story. As before, there are a bunch of kids trying to survive in a nearly adultless,...
by Helen | Sep 29, 2023 | Book reviews
I thought this was a wonderful rom-com. All that is required from you, as a reader, if you are to truly enjoy it, is to have the ability to suspend disbelief a little over some timey-wimey magical ‘stuff’. Essentially, this is a book in the vein of...
by Helen | Aug 20, 2023 | Book reviews
This is a long, complex novel with hard SF ideas at the foundation of its premise and characters you grow to love at its heart. It’s going to be tough to summarise in a review. It begins when scientist Hadiz Tambuwal, based in Lagos, develops a form of amateur...
by Helen | Jul 18, 2023 | Book reviews
Five stars from me. But do take into account that this is a fun, light, very silly and really quite sweary SF book. It’s not going to hit that hard for everyone. (But maybe it will!)Charlie is a substitute teacher with money troubles and a yearning desire to buy...
by Helen | Jun 16, 2023 | Book reviews
The Day The Earth Turned is book one in a post-apocalyptic YA series – and it surpassed my expectations. It begins after a pandemic or two or three. All (or almost all) the adults are dead. The focus is on a small town (village?) and its outskirts, and the two...
