Archive for the ‘Fiction’ Category
As an avid Coheed and Cambria fan, I was beyond-excited to read this 350-page ‘companion piece’ to their latest album, Year of the Black Rainbow. However, what I encountered was a poorly written farce of a novel, which not only couldn’t live up to the majesty and depth of the band’s music, but also couldn’t live up to the ideas it itself contained. Read the rest of this entry »
Melvin Burgess paints an epic picture of a dystopian future which fuses elements of fantasy and science fiction in a dark and visceral tale of war and betrayal.
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What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? Mitch Rafferty would…and now he’s going to have to.
As a hard-up landscape gardener, Mitch struggles to believe a phone call he gets, demanding two million dollars for the safe return of his beloved (and pregnant) wife, Holly. He starts to believe, however, when the kidnappers blow the head off a man walking a dog across the street and leave him to it with a final warning; if he goes to the police, they’ll cut out her eyes and tongue, then leave her to die. So begins his nightmare journey to find two million dollars in a matter of days…
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These days, there are hundreds of thousands of people publishing their written work in some form or another. Be it in physical books, magazines and newspapers, or e-books, blogs, online articles and websites, the written word is now publicised in more forms than ever before. Although this is a great step for civilisation, it does make it very hard for any writer to get themselves noticed.
The last we saw of Lisbeth Salander, she was clinging to life. In The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest she is still in hospital, but is now also the victim of a conspiracy to charge her for two murders and the attempted murder of her own father! With only her doctor and Mikael Blomkvist, editor of Millennium Magazine on her side, Lisbeth’s future looks bleak – especially with a policeman in the hospital room with them at all times!
If you’re looking for something totally different to read this summer, consider Circle of Assassins by Steven Rigolosi. It is written in a style that is totally different from anything you are likely to have read before and involves everybody’s favourite subject-matter…assassinations!
In some ways, Lyra’s world is the same as ours; in other ways it is totally different. There’s an Oxford, for example, but her Oxford is home to a Jordon College, where Lyra has spent her entire childhood. It’s also primarily inhabited by humans though, as Lyra soon discovers, her world is shared by witches, fighting bears and all manner of ghasts and ghouls as well! For all the similarities however, it is the differences between our world and Lyra’s that form the foundation of this incredible story, the first book of Pullmans’ His Dark Materials – arguably one of the greatest trilogies of all time.
