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Book Review: The Honour of the Knights (First Edition) – Stephen J Sweeney

As a long-time reader of science fiction, in this case ‘space opera’, this book had some heavyweight competition to spar with, but it held its own in my humble opinion. I must admit for the first few pages I felt uncertain of this book, but then rightly so the author had laid down some foundations [...]

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Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert

This was a book review I had initially decided I wasn’t going to write! Why? Because I never finished the book, which is only the second time in the last couple of years this has happened. I approached this book from seeing the movie trailer! A lady whose personal life is in turmoil who goes [...]

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Book Review: Time Riders ‘The Eternal War’ – Alex Scarrow

The Eternal War is part of the ‘Time Riders’ time travel series by Alex Scarrow. I had enjoyed the previous books, but I must admit when it came time to read this instalment, I felt it was make or break time for me and the series. This time travel series is aimed at the teen [...]

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Book Review: Polar Quest – Tom Grace

Part of the Nolan Kilkenny series I welcomed the action and adventure I knew would be contained within. What strikes me about Tom Grace’s character other than ability is the humility, which coupled with his stories, has brought me back to read another adventure. There is a certain Dan Brown feel to the stories, issues [...]

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Book Review: The Long Walk – Slavomir Rawicz

Blimey! Without doubt this is the best book I’ve read this year so far. It is an epic book covering the (probably fictional) struggle of a group of prisoners who escape from a Siberian prison camp, and set out to walk thousands of miles in search of their freedom. The story is both heart breaking [...]