Literary Reviews – Page 28

October 14, 2020

Review: Heirs of the Blade, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 4 out of 5 While this started out slow, I ended up enjoying this volume in the Shadows of the Apt saga far…

October 13, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 I was tricked. That can’t be right, can it? Well… It’s my fault obviously, but I still feel as…

October 12, 2020

Rating: 3 out of 5 It’s clear that Ms Miller has a knack for getting Greek myths right—yet, though this short story spoke to…

October 11, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 Mr O’Donnell’s scholarship for this work is impressive, no doubt, but I found the presentation complex and illogical. The…

October 10, 2020

Rating: 3 out of 5 I really enjoyed some parts of this—especially the descriptions which linked to how Achilles fared after the death of…

October 9, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 Not only was Hiro Arikawa’s work a wonderful investigation of human emotion, I found she also perfectly captured the…

October 8, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 In a marked change from the previous book, the pseudo-Egyptian culture gave way to a submarine Greek complex of…

October 7, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 While the end of the previous book also made it sound like the series was about over, this one…

October 3, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 I was surprised by how strong this book was. My opinion regarding several of the previous volumes was less…

October 1, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Abercrombie’s realism, style, and sense of humour are enough to keep one coming back. The universe, quite familiar…