Advantages: A nice read Disadvantages: None of note
been a fan of Shaun Hutson from his very early books like slugs and Spawn and I thought I had read all that he had to offer. Imagine my delight therefore when I discovered Hybrid lurking on the pages of Amazon.co.uk and the realisation that I had not actually read it. Hybrid is a very clever piece of writing from Hutson in that it contains a story within a story, I sometimes forgot I was reading about a struggling author so engrossing was the story about Sean Doyle and his Counter Terrorist work, I actually found myself caring far more for Doyle?s character than for that of Christopher Ward. The first two thirds of the book are largely taken up with the story within the story but then as the manuscript is finished it switches to the author and his struggles to find out how and why the story was being written. Hutson himself says in his ...
Advantages: Great plot and plot twists, good characters. Disadvantages: Abrupt end in ending and forced romance between the two main characters.
Written by David Thorpe
304 Pages
Can be bought as new for £4.49 on Amazon.co.uk and new and used on Ebay.co.uk for £4+.
Hybrids is a sci-fi thriller set in the future, where technology has left the people of Britain in fear. A new sickness called Creep is infecting humans, making them merge with technology they are using. The Government have begun to round hybrids up and take them to the Centre for Genetic Rehabilitation, but no one is ever seen again after being taken there.
Kestrella and Johnny Online are hybrids; Kestrella with a mobile attached to her hand and Johnny with a computer merged with him. Kestrella tracks Johnny down through the internet so that he can use his computer skills and intelligence to find her missing mother who has recently come down with Creep. But as new laws against the hybrids begin to appear, they ...
Advantages: Better direction control, less splashing, spray option, soundly made Disadvantages: Not cheap
Quite often the simplest of gadgets can be the most effective and that is very true, in my view, of the wonderful little Tap Adapta from Lakeland Limited. I first bought a Tap Adapta many years ago and had to remove it last year when I had a new sink unit fitted in my kitchen. Sadly it wouldn't fit my new tap so it lay in the drawer until a few weeks ago when I finally found all the little adapters in a cupboard (which I had put away in a 'safe' place) and was able to refit it and this has reminded me of just how much I missed it.
Basically the Tap Adapta is a fitting which fixes on to your taps to provide a choice of an aerated water supply from the tap or a spray. However it is also cleverly designed with a 360 degree swivel head to allow you to direct either the stream of water or the spray in whatever direction you choose. In ...
laramax 23.07.2007
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