Reviews and writing from the past but here for your viewing… should you be that way inclined. Varied in content and the like but an archive for perusal…
by Lian Hearn Hardcover: 560 pages – Publisher: Macmillan 2007- ISBN-13: 978-0230013971 There are a number of things that can, for no obvious reason, strike feelings of dread in a reader. This can vary from one person to another but a personal list would include books that feel the need for a map, a dramatis…
Sergei Lukyanenko Reviewed by Colin Odell and Mitch Le Blanc William Heinemann Ltd ISBN-10: 0434014443 Paperback: 448 pages A welcome and timely translation of the final part of Sergei Lukyanenko’s Watch Trilogy (the film of The Day Watch is, miraculously, in UK cinemas, subtitles and all), The Twilight Watch follows its predecessors by giving the…
William Heinemann, London, 2007, 320pp, £11.99, tip, ISBN 978-0434014439 A summer romance by the beach whilst recuperating from a hard battle. An amnesiac with apparently monumental powers wanders the streets of Moscow. A court in Prague needs to decide the fate of many in a tale of tragedy and love. Although billed as a trilogy…
Nightwatch – no post-modern irony and wink-at-the-reader knowingness just low-key noir fiction with intrigue and political complexity in contemporary Moscow. With vampires, wizards, impending apocalypse and century long battles between light and darkness, of course. The End – plenty of post-modern irony and wink-at-the-reader knowingness in a book whose title here means the possible conclusion…
By Richard Rickitt Aurum – ISBN 9781845131302 – Hardback 384pp £40 Everyone knows about special effects these days – DVDs have countless extras featurettes that enthusiastically refer to NURBS or caustics before being pushed aside for one of those shots that fades from wireframe modelling to final result, all through the magic of computers. The…
