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Amazing as always

Advantages: question finally answered
Disadvantages: none as far as i can see!

I have read kelley armstrong from the very beginning. I just randomly picked up her book and have not put one down since. This book is not an exception to the rule. Yes its a group of short stories but they are the stories ...

faerielies 29.04.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Tales Of The Otherworld - Kelley Armstrong

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Justice, a gift not a right

Advantages: An interesting and entertaining read
Disadvantages: Some will find it difficult to follow

In some ways this is a difficult book to review. Normally you will start at the beginning and go on to the end. You may get flashback and remerging of past events from time to time. Here what you have are a number of threads woven together to make a compo ...

Coloneljohn 23.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Talion: Revenant - Michael A. Stackpole

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A Flying Swede not a Dutchman

Advantages: A very interesting read.
Disadvantages: Will not have a very wide appreciation.

This story was first published in a slightly shorter form in June and August 1967. The first book printing was in 1970. This edition is published by Gollancz in their science fiction masterworks line. In trying to explain certain things I may give away pa ...

Coloneljohn 17.10.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Tau Zero - Poul Anderson

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England Expects!

Advantages: An entertaining new first fantasy novel.
Disadvantages: Will not be to everybodies taste.

This is a new first novel and the first of a new fantasy series by Naomi Novik. Plot synopsis. In the year 1805 two warships are fighting it out in the North Atlantic somewhere to the west of Madeira. The French ship has been boarded by the British one ...

Coloneljohn 28.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Temeraire - Naomi Novik

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A new old-fashioned adventure book

Advantages: a new twist to dragons, adventure, quick read, fun
Disadvantages: shallow characters, not complet world-building

This is one of the best dragon novels I've read for a long time. It's fun and has a distinct adventure feel to it even though it not exactly fast paced. The dragons themselves are intriguing as is their relationship to their human handlers. As far as I ca ...

Blackwing 21.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Temeraire - Naomi Novik

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