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The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
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Reviewed on 31st December 2009
I'm sorry, but I found this book rather a poor excuse for 'bonus materiel' for the Wheel of Time series. I'm enjoying the main series again - it's picked up a bit again in book seven, which is where I am - and as that's where the series was when this companion was published I decided to take a break from the narrative to see what it added.
The Murder on the Links
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Reviewed on 19th December 2009
In my opinion, a good mystery novel is one where you spend the entire narrative scratching your head, only to suddenly realise 'Of course!' as soon as the final revelation is made. That's not the reaction I had to this book. Although I did a lot of head scratching, there was no way I could have followed Poirot's deductions this time, particularly with the circuitous route of revealing the guilty party.
The Romulan War
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Reviewed on 11th December 2009
To me, this is not an Enterprise novel. Yes, it's set in the continuing Enterprise timeline, has scenes set on the Enterprise, and features the crew of the Enterprise - but not in starring roles. I would class this in the category of 'Star Trek Political Thriller' - like Articles of the Federation and A Singular Destiny - with a much wider focus than just one ship.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Reviewed on 3rd December 2009
The very first novel in Christe's Poirot series serves as an excellent introduction to the Belgian detective and his extraordinary investigative skills. A suspicious death occurs in the family with whom narrator Captain Hastings is staying, and by happy coincidence his old detective friend is also staying in the village and able to investigate.
The Wrecker
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Reviewed on 2nd December 2009
The Wrecker is the second Isaac Bell book from Cussler, this time with a co-writer, as is now usual. I had really enjoyed the first Ball book - The Chase - which was the first book Cussler had written alone for some time, but at the time I had understood it to be a one off, rather than the beginning of yet another series. This series however is not a spin off from the others, and is set almost a hundred years in the past, giving it a new and interesting angle.
Synthesis
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Reviewed on 25th November 2009
Synthesis is an interesting Star Trek novel in several ways. It's main topic is very Trek, focussing on the definition of life itself, and complicated ethical questions surrounding the answer. However the story gets too caught up in the mystery and the action and seems to lose focus on the part of the storyline that should have been explored.
A Crown of Swords
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Reviewed on 15th November 2009
Book seven in this saga is an interesting one. I thought six had gone downhill and that the story was beginning to drag it's feet, and so waited a few months before continuing with the series. The first half of Crown of Swords followed on immediately from book six in terms of both plot and style.
And Another Thing
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Reviewed on 23rd October 2009
I had been looking forward to this book. Its imminent publication had prompted me to reread all five of Douglas Adams' original Hitchhiker novels and so I was truly psyched up for it, and the story so far was fresh in my mind. But now having finished reading, I'm strangely ambivalent about Colfer's attempt.
Unworthy
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Reviewed on 17th October 2009
Just like Beyer's previous novel in this series, Unworthy is absolutely fantastic. She has really got a grip on the characters the she is writing and their personalities and emotions and makes them far more real than any other Star Trek author.
Mostly Harmless
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Reviewed on 13th October 2009
The final book of Douglas Adams' H2G2 series follows the random style of the fourth, with no particular overriding plot to tie together what's happening. It's execution however is much improved. While the book doesn't seem to have any particular story to tell, it hides the fact so well that unless you think about it too much, you wouldn't notice.
Unseen Academicals
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Reviewed on 12th October 2009
Another fantastic outing from Pratchett as he draws his readers into a new set of characters in a familiar setting. The main cast of this book are a small group who work 'under the stairs' in the Unseen University, while the regulars take a back seat. The Archchancellor and Patrician team up to introduce organised foot-the-ball to Ankh-Morpork and replace the violent street version of the game.
The House That Jack Built
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Reviewed on 5th October 2009
Not bad for a Torchwood novel. Makes good use of all the main characters, although there is a Mary Sue guest character that seems quite out-of-place and fairly purposeless. The team investigate when a house that used to belong to Jack suddenly finds itself haunted by all its other previous occupants.
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
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Reviewed on 4th October 2009
I'm actually a bit at a loss as to what I think about this one... and indeed what it was meant to be about. The fourth entry in the series is like nothing that has gone before. The first two were the classic random style and the third pretty much a standard novel - this seem to have slipped sideways out of its genre and ended up as a sort of romantic farce.
A Time to Die
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Reviewed on 2nd October 2009
In the second book of this nine volume series, the first of the five stories is concluded. After breaking Picard out of jail, Wesley and the crew return undercover to the site of their disgrace to solve the myriad mysteries of the former battle site.
Life, The Universe and Everything
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Reviewed on 29th September 2009
The third and (presumably) originally final book in the H2G2 trilogy has a shift in style from the previous two instalments. Whereas before the novels seemed to be a loosely connected sequence of scenes containing the same characters, this one has an overarching plot that runs through the entire novel.
A Time to be Born
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Reviewed on 28th September 2009
I've read this book once before, but never continued onto the rest of the series. Now I have them all lined up ready I thought I would give them another chance, especially given how much they are referenced in the later continuation novels.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Reviewed on 26th September 2009
The second book in the series continues in a similar vein to the first, although the flippant sense of surrealism seems more forced. The book is very much divided into a series of acts - possibly as a result of being based on the radio series which was presented as a set of discrete episodes. A lot of what happens in this book I remembered as being later in the series, which is quite exciting in a way as it means there's lots still to come that I've forgotten!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Reviewed on 23rd September 2009
This is probably only the third time I have read this modern classic, but somehow I still know the plot of the first book by heart. There are all the usual things to say of Adams' work. It's insightful, thought provoking, worryingly realistic and amazingly witty.
Lord of Chaos
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Reviewed on 21st September 2009
So, book 6, finally halfway through the main series of Wheel of Time, and I'm starting to get a bit tired of the series now, especially as this one had a really slow first half. It's not that nothing was happening, but unusually for the fantasy genre, no one was travelling anywhere.
Bay of the Dead
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Reviewed on 9th September 2009
The second novel in the latest Torchwood trilogy is a fairly straightforward zombie horror book with just a tiny bit of Torchwood thrown in so that it matches the cover.
World Without End
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Reviewed on 7th September 2009
The sequel to Follet's earlier work, Pillars of the Earth, is another tale of the builders and monks in the city of Kingsbridge, set two hundred years after the original, in the mid 14th Century. Despite being a sequel there is absolutely no need to have read the original, as the plots are completely separate.
The Soul Key
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Reviewed on 29th August 2009
The latest novel in the continuation series to DS9 follows on immediately from where the previous one left off... which is it's first mistake. It's been two years since the previous novel was released, and this one makes no effort to remind the reader of what had been happening, instead diving straight into a very complicated and confusing plotline.
The Fires of Heaven
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Reviewed on 29th August 2009
In the fifth novel in this series Rand is forced to step up his plans to start invading the rest of the world, while the two groups of girls try to find their way to a safe haven.
Into the Silence
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Reviewed on 16th August 2009
Into the Silence is the first book in the latest trio accompanying the BBC TV series, and is set between series two and three. The three remaining main characters are joined by a disgraced police office with previous Torchwood experience to investigate a number of brutal murders of singers across Cardiff.
Losing the Peace
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Reviewed on 14th August 2009
The latest novel in the Next Generation continuation series is a lot calmer than the preceding destiny trilogy and Borg based novels beforehand. It's a welcome change of pace to a more diplomatic and political theme rather than war, war and more war.
The Shadow Rising
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Reviewed on 10th August 2009
This fourth book in the series is the best so far. It's a mix of romance and war as the characters grow closer and begin to pair off in a slow start to the book - the first half seems to pass very slowly before suddenly speeding up as the second half kicks in.
Medusa
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Reviewed on 5th August 2009
A good read again at last from the Cussler series. Medusa focusses a lot more on Kurt & Joe and less on Paul and Gamay, which is a little dissapointing, but it brings back a feel of the classic duo novels in Cussler's canon.
Harbinger
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Reviewed on 26th July 2009
I don't really know what to say about this one. I don't even really know why I picked it up and read it in the first place - I usually ignore original series based novels, and have learned to ignore book-only spin-off series after disliking the Challenger, Stargazer and Gorkon series.
Miss Marple's Final Cases
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Reviewed on 11th July 2009
Although they are titled as the final cases of Miss Marple, there is nothing to really distinguish them as being late in her career, although she clearly has a reputation and as neccessitated by the short-story format a lot of the situations are described to the detective and reader rather than being played out narratively.
The Dragon Reborn
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Reviewed on 11th July 2009
The third book in the series is the best so far for the most part. The ensemble of characters get the majority of the focus, and this makes the plotlines more interesting.
A Study in Scarlet
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Reviewed on 23rd June 2009
I read this one as an e-book on my phone. It seemed quite short, but without a physical copy it's hard to tell whether it actually is or if the effect was caused by the medium.
Treason
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Reviewed on 22nd June 2009
Though a quick read, the latest novel in the New Frontier series has brought it back from the brink. A definite improvement on recent falls.
The Chamber
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Reviewed on 18th June 2009
Probably the worst Grisham I've read yet. There were moments of interest but no real surprises, no plot twists and a dismal ending.
Sleeping Murder
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Reviewed on 14th June 2009
I've been very lapse and am not reviewing this one until a week after I finished reading it. Tut tut. It's a fairly good novel, once again more in keeping with the later Marples (of which it is one) in that the plot is more complicated than the early formula of 1. Murder, 2. Marple, 3. Murder, 4. Solution.
The Great Hunt
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Reviewed on 5th June 2009
Well, that's book 2 down. This one was similar to the first in terms of the writing style, but my criticisms are slightly different.
Star Trek
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Reviewed on 28th May 2009
What a disappointing book to read, especially after the brilliance that is the film upon which it is based. Sadly Foster's novelization isn't up to the task, and presents us with little more than a prose version of the script.
The Client
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Reviewed on 23rd May 2009
An interesting idea, but the characters in Grisham's novels still strike me as somewhat too two-dimensional. There's the boy, who one minute is a super-human and the next a blubbering child; the lawyer, ditto; the judge, kind and friendly; the evil lawyer, evil, evil and evil.
Nemesis
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Reviewed on 18th May 2009
In some ways, not the greatest of Christie's Marple novels, but in other ways it is. The plot idea is novel, unlike the early Marples which are quite formally structured. In Nemesis Miss Marple is lead through a series of clues before she even finds out what murder she is investigating.
The Eye of the World
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Reviewed on 13th May 2009
I've read this, the first book in a series of 15 (maybe...!), under pressure. I'm not normally a fan of tolkien-esque fantasy - in fact, I rather quickly gave up on Lord of the Rings on the basis that it was awful. I would have given it 1 star if I was rating it for this website!
Full Circle
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Reviewed on 30th April 2009
A really good continuation novel, the more than does justice to most of the crew of Voyager (Kes and Neelix do not appear). This novel covers much more than the description above, filling the gap from the end of Spirit Walk right up to the Destiny trilogy and beyond, talking account of everything that's happened in between.
The Pelican Brief
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Reviewed on 29th April 2009
An interesting read which I've left for too long before getting round to writing a review of. Once again I enjoyed it, although it was a little dated and American, but its' focus was less on the complex machinations of the us legal machine and focussed more on government, which is something I know a little more about.
At Bertram's Hotel
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Reviewed on 20th April 2009
An interestingly fresh take from Christie in this one. While Marple is present, and deducts a little, it's a completely different type of tale from what I have come to expect.
Corsair
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Reviewed on 17th April 2009
Okay, I'm only giving this one two stars just for the final page, which has just really annoyed me. I'm going to go into spoilerific details.
Over A Torrent Sea
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Reviewed on 10th April 2009
Back to normal for the Titan series. Out of touch with starfleet exploring a brand new world with a unique twist. An individual member of the crew finds her calling and is tempted to stay behind permenantly. I've heard this a little before in the Titan series.
A Time to Kill
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Reviewed on 7th April 2009
Another gripping read from Grisham (although it's his first so perhaps it shouldn't be 'another'). Its an interesting tale with a good insight into the wacky way the American legal system works - which seems rather convoluted.
A Caribbean Mystery
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Reviewed on 26th March 2009
A fairly tame Marple novel, although with a refreshing change of scenery. Gone are the quiet villages and large family mansions of previous novels, and in is a row of bungalows on a Barbados beach.
A Singular Destiny
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Reviewed on 24th March 2009
An interesting, and unusual take on the Trek franchise, but not as gripping as the trilogy whose effects this begins to tidy up. It's a good choice of idea to follow it up though as it deals with the future of the galaxy from multiple points of view, and sets the stage for the continuation novels of the next few years.
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
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Reviewed on 19th March 2009
This one has the return to Miss Marple's home of St Mary Mead that I've been desperately craving. The contrived ways she has become involved in some of her cases was getting on my nerves, and I'd much rather the murders came to her! Marple is now fairly housebound, and so a lot of the action is seem from the other characters' points of view, with them reporting in every so often.
4.50 From Paddington
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Reviewed on 15th March 2009
Back on form a little for Christie - the police aren't around to make bumbling fools of themselves until fairly late on in the game - Miss Marple has a valid, non-coincidental reason for being involved, and this time she has a trusty sidekick!
The Firm
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Reviewed on 15th March 2009
This book was a bit of a gamble for me. I've never read a 'legal thriller' before - I've read one of Grisham's non-legal novels though (Playing for Pizza - about American football in Italy), and so decided to have a bash at his most famous book.
Lost Souls
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Reviewed on 11th March 2009
A fantastic end to a fantastic trilogy. I had my misgivings at the start for a series that focused on the whole of the star trek universe in the post-TNG era, but it was in good hands with Mack, and this final episode especially was hard to put down.
A Pocket Full of Rye
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Reviewed on 5th March 2009
Another standard murder mystery for Miss Marple, with a fortunate coincidence which involves her to assist the befuddled policeman. Perhaps by this point in her career, Christie's opinion of the police had dropped.
Mere Mortals
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Reviewed on 3rd March 2009
The second novel served as a good continuation of the story - although it still had a little of the second novel in a trilogy feel to it.
They Do It With Mirrors
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Reviewed on 25th February 2009
Agatha Christie constantly surprises by the differing styles of narration in her novels. Previously I've read tales told completely in the third person and first person from the point of a random character - but this one starts off in third-person limited, fixed with Miss Marple's point of view. This is another change from recent novels, with Marple playing a large part right from the start.
Gods of Night
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Reviewed on 24th February 2009
An excellent start to this series, quite unexpectedly. I don't remember being too enamoured about David Mack's DS9 continuation novel, Warpath, and I wasn't looking forward to more novels focussing on the borg - to be honest, they've been done to death in Voyager.
A Murder Is Announced
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Reviewed on 15th February 2009
Another excellent book in the Marple Canon, this one adds to the mystery throughout, throwing out a variety of clues hither and thither, some of which I spotted, and others not. I think I'm improving, and my feeling is that the third-person narrative helps to get more of an overview of the case than the first-person perspective in the previous novel.
Sword of Damocles
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Reviewed on 12th February 2009
Finally, a Titan novel I actually enjoyed! This one was very different from the previous three novels in the series - there's very little direct contact with aliens, and it's closer to the new characters, focusing on one or two of them in particular.
Artemis Fowl
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Reviewed on 7th February 2009
I picked up this one in a charity shop because Eoin Colfer (who I had always thought was called Coifer) has been announced as authoring the new H2G2 novel, 'And Another Thing...', and I was interested to see what he was like.
The Moving Finger
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Reviewed on 30th January 2009
This is the third Miss Marple novel penned by Christie, and it almost seems like it has been tweaked deliberately to include her.
Orion's Hounds
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Reviewed on 29th January 2009
An improvement on the previous book in the series, I feel, although still fairly average on the scale of Star Trek novels. Many of the aliens encountered are ones that have been met before on the TV series - in fact that's a major part of the plot - and this helps me to picture the events.
Missing in Action
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Reviewed on 23rd January 2009
Nothing special. I've been going off New Frontier over the past few books, and this one I didn't even buy until it was in paperback and it's taken probably a couple of years to get around to reading it. Part of that was because I was re-reading the series to remind myself what had happened, but still...
The Writer's Tale
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Reviewed on 20th January 2009
This is not the least good book in the entire space-time continuum. I have really, really, really, enjoyed this one.
The Red King
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Reviewed on 15th January 2009
An interesting second book in the series by M+M. As well as a sequel to the first Titan book it serves as a sequel to their previous novel in the Lost Era series based on Sulu's Excelsior... which I vaguely remember reading about 5 years ago. Sadly, my memory isn't good enough to recall it that well (in fact, the Lost Era series didn't grip me that much at all... to the extent that I don't think I finished reading them). So, the opening chapters threw me a little until I, along with the crew of the Titan who didn't serve with Sulu, was brought up to date.
Kobayashi Maru
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Reviewed on 10th January 2009
Another gripping tale of the post-tv series Enterprise crew as they move towards the historical war referred to in TOS. It is a follow-up to The Good That Men Do, which is required reading to understand this tale.