Review: The Curator by Owen King

Publication date 7 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? No Why I picked this While I’ve read Sleeping Beauties by the same author that was a joint project so I wanted to try a book where they were the sole writer. Review copy or purchase Purchased as ebook. What it’s

Review: The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone

Publication date 2 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? No Why I picked this From the moment I heard the author mention this book at an online launch for his last Skelfs book, I knew I wanted to read it. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author and

Review: Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell

Publication date 9 February 2023 Standalone or series Series (third in The Stranger Times series) First time reading this author? No Why I picked this I love this series. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publishers Transworld and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an

Review: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Book release date: 10 January 2011 Book blurb: My name is Peter Grant, and I used to be a probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service, and to everyone else as the Filth. My story really begins when I tried to take a witness

Review: The Nine: Origins

Book release date: 10 October 2022 Book blurb: The power of the one is the is power of the many. Eighteen-year-old Blake Wilder usually hides her ability to see pivotal moments in other people’s pasts and futures, but when a premonition compels her to save a classmate’s life, she’s drawn into a centuries-old paranormal society

Review: The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamby

Book release date: 15 September 2022 Book blurb: When disgraced former police officer Harriet Kealty discovers a plea for help in the margins of a second-hand book, she sets out to unravel a mystery that quickly leads her to confront some uncomfortable ties to her own life, including her ex-lover Ben. Following the deaths of

Review: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

Book release date: 2013 Book blurb: If the whole of History lay before you, where would you go? When Dr Madeleine Maxwell is recruited by the St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, she discovers the historians there don’t just study the past – they revisit it. But one wrong move and History will fight back

Review: Locke & Key: The Golden Age by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

Book release date: 26 April 2022 Book blurb: Take a trip through the past and unlock moments from Keyhouse’s long history that expand the saga of the Locke family in this collection of stories including the crossover with Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Universe! Contains three prequel short stories, “Small World,” “Open the Moon,” and, collected for

Review: Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb

Book release date: 14 March 2013 Book blurb: Dragons will fly over Kelsingra once more… Attacked by hunters, Tintaglia is dying of her wounds. If she perishes, her ancestral memories will die with her and the dragons in the ancient city of Kelsingra will lose the secret knowledge they need to survive. The dragon keepers

Review: Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb

Book release date: 4 March 2010 Book blurb: The dragon keepers and the fledgling dragons are forging a passage up the treacherous Rain Wild River. They are in search of the mythical Elderling city of Kelsingra, and are accompanied by the liveship Tarman, its captain, Leftrin, and a group of hunters who must search the