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Advantages: A good introduction
Disadvantages: A little mild for Herbert

...and gore, but brilliant just the same. This is story that shows you sometimes the most beautiful things can also be the most terrifying. When moving to a beautiful run down cottage in the country in order to escape the hussle and bussle of city life, Midge and Mike thought they had found their haven, Wild animals on the door step, love and creativity. But in true Herbert style things aren't as they seem, the neighbours are a little strange to ... Read review

Advantages: So apt for our current climate change
Disadvantages: Don't read it at bedtime, the night will pass quickly, and you'll still be reading when it's time to goto work

...over evil. In Portent the world is a changing place, unexplained phenomena are occuring all over with disasterous results for the humans living on this planet, but as Herbert says the planet is trying to heal itself. Mixed in to the storyline are a set of gypsy twins, Mama Pitie a dark and foreboding figure hell bent on getting to the twins, James Rivers a Doctor working for the NOAA (National Oceananic and Atmospheric Administration, The Dream Man ...
...Diane, Father and Daughter who aid James while he unravels what exactly is happening. I whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone interested in what is happening now to our planet it's so apt, and although it may be pure fantasy it's amazing how James Herbert wrote about, what we are only now experiencing. ... Read review

Advantages: tense, very tense
Disadvantages: none-cracking debut thriller

EVERY DEAD THING is the stunningly brilliant debut novel from best-selling writer, JOHN CONNOLLY. Every so often, a first novel will come along that blows you away and leaves you breathless; gasping for more. EVERY DEAD THING is just such a thriller and the book that first introduces us to Charlie "Bird" Parker and his two loyal companions-in-arms, Angel and Louis. Parker is a cop with a troubled family life; his father was a murderer and Parker ...
...is rapidly descending into a series of countless arguments. After one paticular night on the booze, he returns home to find his wife and daughter not just murdered but arranged in a gruesome display for him to find. At first, briefly, Parker is considered a suspect but when he is soon cleared, he sets off on a quest for justice; determined to find the killer responsible for destroying his life. It is a journey that takes him across the boundaries ... Read review