Advantages: Gripping, spine- tingling book Disadvantages: A little slow at the beginning and some violence.
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The Terror
Dan Simmons
I don't know about you but I do like reading fiction that combines a little bit of history in it. So it is with this book 'The Terror' by Dan Simmons. This novel is a fictional account of Sir John Frankl ...
The Terror is a novel by American author Dan Simmons and is set in and around the famous search for the North West passage by Sir John Franklin in 1846-1849. The real Franklin mission became legendary because the full facts of the mission are still unknow ...
Advantages: Storytelling, flows through, characters, entertainment Disadvantages: So repetitive of the previous books, gets a little tedious due to this
Bernard Cornwell's series covering the end of the 9th Century and the beginning of the 10th is now 6 books in the making I believe, and shows no sign of stopping. This is the latest, released in paperback this year, and I am now satisfied that I have fina ...
Advantages: A truly gripping read from start to end. Disadvantages: May cost you more than it did me!
I was more than lucky to bag such a bargain as the product I will now review, from one of the many sales that my local library holds.
Even the lady librarian was a little green when she saw my purchase, even going as far as to say she would have bought i ...
Advantages: Insights into another world Disadvantages: It's only the beginning
In The Year of our Lord 1600, John Blackthorne is an English pilot on a Dutch ship - last of a fleet of five - his crew virtually obliterated, and a storm raging. Among the first of the Dutch ships to clear the straits of Magellan, they've orders to plun ...
