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The Long Walk – Stephen King
Mini Review As someone who owns Stephen King’s On Writing, who loved the series, Haven (based on the short story, ‘The Colorado Kid’), reading more of Stephen King’s prose was long overdue. I started with this little gem and I loved it. You can feel the tension building on that long road to… perdition? The longer they continue, the more miles they make, the more it feels like it. I was gripped by the horror and inevitability of it all but most of all by the friendship between Garraty and McVries. I forgot their ages, especially McVries seemed wise and someone who’s seen it all – who has lived it…
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The Prole Soldier – Oliver Tidy
A city controlled by authorities, its inhabitants – proles – have a built-in Chip and are living to a set scheme, monitored by drones – no one dares to challenge the powers that be for fear of being eliminated. Except for Theo, who lives in Rainbow City’s Blue Zone… THE PROLE SOLDIER Introduction Rainbow City #1 On the brink of being caught trespassing in the City’s Yellow Zone, Theo runs back to safety knowing only too well that getting caught means his built-in Chip will be activated and he will die. He is almost sixteen and has no intention of being drafted upon his sixteenth birthday. The little spare time…
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The Casebook of Elisha Grey – Isabeau Vollhardt
Kiara with her medical abilities has come to the magical city of Atlantis. With investigative consultant Elisha Grey the are Atlantis’ Holmes and Watson. Introduction The Casebook of Elisha Grey #1 The daughter of the Atlantean Ambassador to Chungko, Kiara Ptolmai, has come to Atlantis to complete her law studies in Atlantis’ renowned Temple of Learning. Kiara has medical knowledge and heals people with her hands. Her skills come from generations of women in her family before her, like her mother. But foremost here in Atlanta she’s obviously an outsider, a stranger, “completely alone in a country where I knew no one.” Kiara has barely money left to find herself suitable quarters…
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The Branches of Time – Luca Rossi
– This book contains explicit sexual content – A wedding ends in a bloodbath with as only survivors Bashinoir, his beautiful wife Lil and Priestess Miril. Evil King Beanor is determined to kill them all. Introduction “Can you live knowing that those who loved you never existed?” Luca Rossi’s book opens pleasant enough – a wedding ceremony is performed outside, in the “pure white snow”. Best man Bashinoir is irritated seeing his wife Lil flirting with another man. Present at the wedding is the whole of the island Turios’ population, except for the priestess Miril. Why is only one priest attending and not both of the priests of Turios? Storyline A…
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The Origin of F.O.R.C.E. – Sam B. Miller II
The Origin of F.O.R.C.E. is an exciting science fiction novel, involving the alien race the Chrysallaman and their fight to conquer Planet HG-281 – Earth Introduction Two spaceships appear before the reader: the Chrysallaman Scout Saucer, a small assault and reconnaissance ship and the Chrysallaman Mother Ship, a “heavily armoured arsenal”. In the prologue, we find ourselves aboard scout ship UurBereck with Chrysallaman officer DrrTrr Zennk and his 12-year-old son WrrNrr Zennk, scanning Planet HG-281 ( Planet Earth) to determine whether the expanding race of the Chrysallaman will be able to settle there, to form a colonisation. We have heard the tale of the mysterious objects believed to be seen in…
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