Trials of Apollo: The Tyrant’s Tomb by Rick Riordan continues to follow Apollo and Meg as they work to secure the Oracles. Now at Camp Jupiter, Apollo must prepare to face a new threat, worse than even Caligula. I read this book right on the heels of the previous one, only to realise it wasn’t […]
Echoes of the Runes by Christina Courtenay is a charming tale of timeless love remanifested. This is a dual time novel, shifted between the past where Ceri has been kidnapped by Haukr’s raiding party and brought back to be ransomed, and the present where Mia and Haakon are excavating property left to Mia by her […]
So, I finally got around to reading The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware! The story follows Lo Blacklock, a travel mag writer, as she sets off on a ’boutique’ cruise ship (read large yacht) sailing around the Norwegian fjords. She’s there to do a piece on the ship and it’s amenities. Her first […]
Ross’ The Daemoniac kicks off the Gaslamp Gothic series, and introduces us to Harry and Weston. Harry’s sister, Myrtle, is away on a case and when clients come calling, Harry decides she and Weston will look into it instead. Harry wants to join the Society for Psychical Research and hopes solving this case is a […]
Apollo’s trials and tribulations continue in The Burning Maze. He and Meg head to California, accompanied by the satyr Grover. The southern part of the state is withering away thanks to the trapped energy of the sun Titan Helios. Fires rage across the land and drought parches what doesn’t burn. Along the way, they recruit […]
Wheeler’s The Killing Fog kicks off his new Grave Kingdom series, introducing us to Bingmei, the orphaned child of warrior parents. Now she belongs to Kunmia’s mercenary group. When their normal employer asks Kunmia’s ensign to partner with another to locate the mythcal city of Fusang, it sparks an unprecedented chain of events. Ancient, restless […]
Loki by Mohammed Ghassan Farija puts a new spin on the legends and myths of the Norse pantheon. Myth is a culture’s way of encoding important events, among other things. And, as Tolkien notes, sometimes history becomes myth under the weight of time. This story, centred on one of the Norse pantheon’s rather more misunderstood […]
The Unwilling by Kelly Braffet follows Judah, a foundling raised in Lord Elban’s household with his eldest son. As the two children grow older, it is discovered that they share a psychic link such that what one feels, so too does the other. Not just emotional, but physical as well. If one is cut, the […]
A Beginning At The End by Mike Chen is a tale of humanity’s survival following a slatewiper pandemic that killed off over two-thirds of the population. Those left either live in Metros (remnants of large cities), or out in ‘Reclaimed Territory’ (more like homesteaders, reclaiming areas away from the Metros). There are piratical gangs that […]
As promised, here’s my longer review for Oasis. I adored the archaeology aspect! I wish we had been able to take more of a gander at the actual dig site, and artefacts. My first degree was in archaeology, and it is still near and dear to my heart. I loved the descriptions of the dig […]
