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Book Review – Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow

Fleeing in shame to the streets of London, after copyright infringement gets his whole household disconnected from the Internet, Trent falls in with a good crowd of squatters and learns the ropes. When the copyright corporations push for even harsher legislation, Trent finds himself involved in the fight, and uses his key skill, fan vidding, to shine attention on the issue. . . . → Read More: Book Review – Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow

Book Review – Angels of Vengeance by John Birmingham

This is the third in the After America series by Birmingham, and primarily follows our three main protagonists, all strong willed women armed with vengeance. . . . → Read More: Book Review – Angels of Vengeance by John Birmingham

Book Review – World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

It is the aftermath of the Zombie Apocalypse, humanity has struggled back from the edge of extinction, and a historian is tasked with interviewing the survivors to try and document as many first hand accounts as possible. . . . → Read More: Book Review – World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

Book Review – Fair Game by Patricia Briggs

Anna and Charles find themselves helping the FBI to track a serial killer, one who prefers his victims to be supernatural, and who has been killing for quite some time without the FBI realising. As the group closes in on the killer, Anna and Charles find their lives and their sanity in deadly danger. . . . → Read More: Book Review – Fair Game by Patricia Briggs

Book Review – Dodger by Terry Pratchett

Dodger is a seventeen year old Londoner who makes his living by toshing – scrounging in the city sewers for salvage. When he sees a girl trying to escape from her kidnappers, he gets involved and ends up saving her from them. . . . → Read More: Book Review – Dodger by Terry Pratchett

Book Review – This Case is Gonna Kill Me by Phillipa Bornikova

Linnet was fostered with vampires as a young child, grew up around them, graduated University as a Lawyer, and has now been placed at the prestigious White Fang Law Firm, Ishmael, McGillary, and Gold. When Linnet narrowly survives a werewolf attack that kills her boss, she thinks it’s associated with the case, and begins investigating why someone would want to kill him. . . . → Read More: Book Review – This Case is Gonna Kill Me by Phillipa Bornikova

Book Review – Archangel’s Storm by Nalini Singh

As their two lives entwine (both metaphorically and literally, of course, given this is a Singh novel), they race against a ticking Archangel time bomb to try and discover the murder, before the body count increases by the millions. . . . → Read More: Book Review – Archangel’s Storm by Nalini Singh

Book Review – Cold Days by Jim Butcher

Harry Dresden is back from the dead and powered up, adding Winter Knight to Mab the Queen of Air and Darkness, to his CV. But with great power, comes bigger bad guys, eager to challenge Harry before he gets familiar with his new powers, and that’s before Harry considers Mab herself. . . . → Read More: Book Review – Cold Days by Jim Butcher

Book Review – Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan

Told through the eyes of several narrators, Sea Hearts is a Grimm style fairy tale, where you always need to be careful what you wish for, lest it come true. . . . → Read More: Book Review – Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan

Book Review – The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Only nineteen years old, taciturn Sean Kendrick is the reigning champion of the Scorpio Races, where the capaill uisce (carnivorous water horses) can be more vicious than the humans riding them, and a usual race incurs multiple fatalities. Sean is riding as an . . . → Read More: Book Review – The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater