Paul wants to read Wolf of Wessex by Matthew Harffy

Wolf of Wessex by Matthew Harffy
'Harffy's Dunston is a fantastic creation – old, creaking and misanthropic. The forest is beautifully evoked. A treat of a …
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'Harffy's Dunston is a fantastic creation – old, creaking and misanthropic. The forest is beautifully evoked. A treat of a …
The fourth novel in the Wheel of Time series - one of the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever …
Thinking about thinking is a subject that I often find interesting. With The Scout Mindset, Julia Galef does a good job of both summarising what we know and providing a framework for looking at how we think, and how we can improve our thinking.
This is a very solid book and one that is well worth reading.
A promising, if ultimately disappointing, slice of folk horror. There is a lot to like in this book but it lets itself down somewhat with a very homogeneous collection of characters that remain very difficult to care about.
1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for …
Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for …
1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for …
Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for …
Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for …
“Citizens of the Federation. Greetings from the Core.”
For decades the UN and the Russian military have navigated a tense …
“Citizens of the Federation. Greetings from the Core.”
For decades the UN and the Russian military have navigated a tense …
It's one of those Adrian Tchaikovsky novels that has alternatively-evolved sapient animals in it, but it also has an unexpected amount of queer characters. Tchaikovsky tends to be good at the former, and this book is not an exception; he also handles the latter well enough, though if you are not okay with bigotry exhibited by some of the more contemptible characters being part of the plot, you may want to skip this one.
The novel starts out kind of slow and takes a while to ramp up while you want to scream at the characters to figure it out already. In the middle, it may seem to be a bit predictable, although it does take some interesting twists in the last third, which subverts that impression a bit.
Overall, a fun parallel universe story, if you're into that sort of thing, even if not an exceptional one.
I loved it! Such a good book and I can't wait for the next in the series. Not sure how the authors can sustain this for 5 books, but then again it is Terry! He has form for creating new and believable worlds, and other trouser legs of time...