May 2013
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April 2013
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High Moor 2: Moonstruck by Graeme Reynolds
New Review: High Moor 2: Moonstruck by Graeme Reynolds #horror #werewolves Time for another guest review, so without any further ado, it’s over to The Eloquent Page’s resident expert on all things werewolf, MadNad, for her thoughts on High Moor 2.
The people of High Moor are united in horror at the latest tragedy to befall their… View Post
Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough
New Review: Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough @JoFletcherBooks #review #SarahPinboroughAppreciationWeek When a rotting torso is discovered in the vault of New Scotland Yard, it doesn’t take Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, long to realise that there is a second killer at work in the city where, only a few days before, Jack the Ripper brutally murdered two… View Post
Poison by Sarah Pinborough
New Review: Poison by Sarah Pinborough @gollancz @sarahpinborough #review #SarahPinboroughAppreciationWeek Time to kick off what I’m tentatively calling “Sarah Pinborough Appreciation Week” here at The Eloquent Page. I can think of no better way to begin than with a guest review so without any further nonsense, let me hand you over to my better half @MadNad.
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Communion Town by Sam Thompson
New Review: Communion Town by Sam Thompson On crowded streets, in the town squares and half-empty tower blocks, the lonely and lost try to make a connection. A weary gumshoe pounds the reeking sidewalks, seeking someone he knows he will never find. Violence loiters in blind alleys, eager to… View Post
Black Feathers by Joseph D'Lacey
New Review: Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey @JosephDLacey @AngryRobotBooks #review It is the Black Dawn, a time of environmental apocalypse, the earth wracked and dying.
It is the Bright Day, a time long generations hence, when a peace has descended across the world.
In each era, a child shall be chosen. Their task is to find a dark… View Post
March 2013
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Department 19: Battlelines by Will Hill
New Review - Department 19: Battlelines by Will Hill #review @WillHillAuthor @HarperCollins Battlelines is the third book in a series and so there is a good chance that there may be minor spoilers in this review (honest, I’m not kidding around you know). Oh well, don’t say I didn’t give you fair warning.
Dracula is on the verge of coming into… View Post
A Storm of Swords: Part 1 Steel and Snow by George...
New Review - A Storm of Swords: Part 1 Steel and Snow by George R R Martin #review Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast.
The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud. In the northern wastes, a horde of hungry, savage people steeped in the dark magic of the wilderness is poised to invade the Kingdom of the North… View Post
Urban Occult edited by Colin F Barnes
New Review: Urban Occult edited by Colin F Barnes #review #horror Behind urban life, weird and horrific things fester.
The whispers and chills of things long gone… the promise of power from the darkness… the seduction of those that lie in the shadows… the occult is all around us: in town houses, in mansions, and in your… View Post
Jago by Kim Newman
New Review: Jago by Kim Newman @AnnoDracula @TitanBooks #review #horror In the tiny English village of Alder, dreams and nightmares are beginning to come true. Creatures from local legend, science fiction and the dark side of the human mind prowl the town.
Paul, a young academic composing a thesis about the end of the world,… View Post
Between Two Thorn by Emma Newman
New Review: Between Two Thorn by Emma Newman #review Something is wrong in Aquae Sulis, Bath’s secret mirror city.
The new season is starting and the Master of Ceremonies is missing. Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds Treaty, is assigned with the task of finding him with no one to help but a dislocated… View Post
February 2013
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A Conspiracy of Alchemists by Liesel Schwarz
New Post: A Conspiracy of Alchemists by Liesel Schwarz @DelReyUK @Liesel_S When dirigible pilot Elle Chance accepts an unusual cargo in Paris she finds herself in the middle of the deadly war between the Alchemists and the Warlocks.
The Alchemists will stop at nothing to acquire the coveted carmot stone and its key, and Elle… View Post
Child of Vengeance by David Kirk
New Review: Child of Vengeance by David Kirk @simonschusterUK #reviewScholar. Warrior. Samurai. His name was Bennosuke, son of the great Munisai Shinmen, known throughout the empire as one of the greatest warriors who ever lived. His destiny was to become a great warrior like his father – a Samurai, one of the most feared… View Post
A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd
New Review: A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd In the dying days of 1850 the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein. Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the… View Post
The Six Gun Tarot by R S Belcher
New Review: The Six Gun Tarot by R S Belcher @UKTor Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His… View Post
January 2013
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Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole
New Review: Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole @headlinepg @mykecole #review Time for a cheeky little guest review. Over to friend of The Eloquent Page @MrSamStrong. Today he’ll be casting his beady eye over Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole.
The Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Suddenly people from all corners of the globe… View Post
The Return Man by V M Zito
New Review: The Return Man by V M Zito @hodderscape THE OUTBREAK TORE THE USA IN TWO. THE EAST REMAINS A SAFE HAVEN. THE WEST HAS BECOME A RAVAGED WILDERNESS. THEY CALL IT THE EVACUATED STATES.
It is here that Henry Marco makes his living. Hired by grieving relatives, he tracks down the dead and delivers… View Post
A Red Sun Also Rises by Mark Hodder
New Review - A Red Sun Also Rises by Mark Hodder @DelReyUK A man without faith. A woman without hope.
My name is Aiden Fleischer. I was forced from my home, moved among the victims of Jack the Ripper, was tortured by a witch doctor, and awoke on another planet. Throughout it all, my assistant, Clarissa Stark,… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Without Warning by John Birmingham
New Review: Without Warning by John Birmingham #review @TitanBooks In Kuwait, American forces are locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a sailboat manned by a drug runner and a pirate is witness to the unspeakable. In one… View Post shared via WordPress.com
December 2012
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The Four Realms by Adrian Faulkner
New Review: The Four Realms by Adrian Faulkner #review @Figures Half-vampire Darwin stumbles across a corpse on the streets of London, and in a pocket discovers a notebook in a mysterious language. Divided between human ethics and vampire blood lust, Darwin finds himself both condemner and saviour of a race who’ve… View Post shared via WordPress.com
A New Split Worlds Short Story from Emma Newman
Guest Post: A New Split Worlds Story from Emma Newman (@EmApocalyptic) Today, as an extra special just because it’s Thursday treat, please enjoy a guest post from Emma Newman
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In 2013 the marvellous Angry Robot books will be publishing three Split Worlds novels, the first is out in March and is called… View Post shared via WordPress.com
The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth
New Review: The President’s Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth #review #horror Please note that The President’s Vampire is a direct sequel to Blood Oath and that this review may contain some minor spoilers. Got it? Good, now on with the show…
For 140 years, Nathaniel Cade has been the President’s Vampire, sworn by a blood oath to… View Post shared via WordPress.com
The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
New Review - The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien #fantasy #review Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End.
But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Ecko Rising by Danie Ware
New Review: Ecko Rising by Danie Ware@danacea Ecko is an unlikely saviour: a savage, gleefully cynical rebel/assassin, he operates out of hi-tech London, making his own rules in a repressed and subdued society. When the biggest job of his life goes horribly wrong, Ecko awakes in a world… View Post shared via WordPress.com
November 2012
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Artificial Evil by Colin F Barnes
New Review - Artificial Evil by Colin F Barnes Three hackers. A deadly plot. One chance to save humanity.
2153. Post-cataclysm. The last city exists beneath a dome where the mysterious benefactors ‘The Family’ tightly control the population with a death lottery and a semi-autonomous network.
All is… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth #review @hodderscape Sharp and ambitious, Zach Barrows is on his way up. But when he gets a call from the White House, it’s not quite the promotion he expected. Zach is to be the new political liaison officer to America’s best kept secret:
Nathaniel Cade. The President’s… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Mindjammer by Sarah Newton
New Review - Mindjammer by Sarah Newton #review #scifi It is the second age of Space…
In the seventeenth millennium, the New Commonality of Humankind is expanding, using newly discovered faster-than-light travel to discover lost worlds colonised in the distant past. It’s a time of turmoil, of clashing… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Blood Fugue by Joseph D'Lacey
New Review: Blood Fugue by Joseph D’Lacey #review @JosephDLacey Reclusive outdoorsman, Jimmy Kerrigan, finds himself battling a vampiric plague which threatens to destroy Hobson’s Valley, the isolated mountain community he calls home. When his family, friends and neighbours fall prey to the ‘Fugue’, Kerrigan is the… View Post shared via WordPress.com
September 2012
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Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig
Please note Mockingbird is a direct sequel to Blackbirds and due to that fact it’s entirely possible this review may contain minor spoilers. Consider yourself warned, people.
Miriam Black has a terrible talent.
The first time she touches someone, she will see the moment of their death. Still in her early twenties, she’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes,...
August 2012
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Shift by Kim Curran
When your average loser, Scott Tyler, meets the beautiful and mysterious Aubrey Jones, he learns he’s not sow average after all. He’s a “Shifter” - he has the power to undo any decision he’s ever made.
At first, he things the power to Shift is pretty cool. But as his world starts to unravel around him, he realises that each time he uses his power, it results in...
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The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters
The world is about to end – would you investigate a murder?
An asteroid is about to collide with the Earth in six months time, and wipe us all out. Would you give up your life and go of to fulfill your ambition, take solace in drunken pleasure, live in fear, or solidly carry on doing what you do? Detective Hank Palace faces this stark question, and as others walk away from their jobs he carries...
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Silenced by Kristina Ohlsson
Fifteen years ago a young girl was brutally attacked as she picked flowers in a meadow near her parents’ Swedish country home. The crime went unreported; the victim silenced.
Cut to the present. It is a bleak February morning in Stockholm, when Alex Recht’s federal investigation unit is assigned to two new cases.
A man has been killed in a hit and run. He has no identification on...
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The Eloquent Page Interviewed by A Fantastical...
Another day and another little snippet of bookish related news (well sort of).
The most fantastical of librarians, Mieneke Van Der Salm, regularly runs a feature where she interviews other book reviewers. Guess what? This week it was my turn.
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Fox Spirit Looks to the Shadows
Hot on the heels of the Angry Robot cover release this afternoon, we now have a little something from the good people at Fox Spirit. (I know, I know. I don’t do any news for ages and then two articles come along at once. I’m like a bus).
Fox Spirit books are pleased to announce that Joan De La Haye’s psychological horror ‘Shadows’ is now available from amazon (to...
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Angry Robot To Take On A Mad Scientist
A tiny little morsel of news popped into my inbox and I felt the urge to share. The Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke is being released in Febuary 2013 from Angry Robot Books.
Hmm, what more can I tell you? Well, here’s the blurb…
There’s never been anyone - or anything - quite like Finn.
He looks, and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was...
