Chasing Graves was one of my favourite books of 2018, so there’s always an air of trepidation regarding whether the follow-up can maintain the quality, especially when it’s the midpoint of a trilogy. Well, never fear. Not only does the author keep up the pace, but he ups the ante, setting up a potentially blockbuster end to the series. Caltro, […]
Historical fiction tends to favour big ticket events in human history, so it’s always nice to see someone play the obscure card as Tim Leach does with The Smile of the Wolf. Set in Iceland a thousand years ago, the story tells of the Norse settlers who had made their home there, and of some of the issues they faced […]
I don’t remember what I was doing that day, but for some reason I went against my usual rules and picked up a second book that was part three in a series. I guess I could have not read it (gasp!), but it was short, and turned out to be rather enjoyable. In addition, the author wrote it in a […]
I thought I made a mistake on this one. I’ve been interested in checking out James A Moore for a while now, but I didn’t realise it was the third in the series, and usually I prefer to go with a series from the start. Turned out to be less of a concern than I thought, as the author did […]
Continuing on my historical fantasy kick, on the heels of Son of Zeus I now have fellow god-titled novel Athena’s Champion. After professing my love for Heracles in the earlier review, this follows the early exploits of another favourite, Odysseus. For those who’ve read the Iliad and the Odyssey, or those who haven’t, some scholars believe the two stories to […]
