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Infamy, infamy! They’ve all got it infamy!

Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire by Terry Deary

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Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire is the second of my Terry Deary haul and proved to be far more information packed than the one I read on Ancient Egypt, covering three centuries of Roman history from the rule of Augustus to Rome’s fall. While lip service is given to some aspects of plebeian life, such as a look at some of the jobs that a Roman citizen might have, it’s very much a look at its rulers instead in a whistlestop tour through the good, the bad and the mad emperors (and noting that each emperor had something in […]

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7/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

The zombie apocalypse will be televised

Blackout (Newsflesh #3) by Mira Grant

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The final part of the Newsflesh trilogy is a fitting end, even if it didn’t quite hit the exciting heights of the series opener. It’s going to be really hard to review this one without dropping a couple of major spoilers for this and the previous books, so if you haven’t already read them, click away now… SPOILERS BELOW… We rejoin the surviving members of our team with them in hiding with the doc, catching her live zombies for her to experiment with and exposing Sean to the virus as much as possible to test the limits of his newly […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

Weirdness in Wink

American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett

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American Elsewhere only popped onto my radar thanks to a Cannonball review, so thank you for putting a new (to me) writer on my horizon. A slow burn, it put me very much in mind of HP Lovecraft (minus the racism) living in a Stephen King town. I happen to love that kind of setting, so American Elsewhere turned out to be my kind of catnip. Mona Bright has been having a difficult few years. An ex-cop, currently unemployed and drifting following the death of her child and relationship, the book opens as she finds out her estranged father has […]

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6/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

The lies that bind us

The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Barnhill

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Though The Girl Who Drank The Moon is apparently for youngsters, there’s a lot in here that olds will love too. On the edge of a forest, villagers leave a baby each year as an offering to the witch they’ve grown up terrified of. As far as they’re concerned, by giving up the baby’s life, they’ll be safeguarding their own for another year. Meanwhile, the perplexed witch hurries to collect the abandoned babies, nourishing them with starlight until she can find them loving families on the other side of the forest. But one year, she accidentally feeds the child moonlight, […]

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6/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Exhilarating, awe inspiring, and insanely readable

A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols

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A Voyage for Madmen was a real treat, a riveting read that I devoured over the course of one day and that was all I’d then talk about to my friends for another. In recent years I’ve discovered that I have a bit of a thing for tales of people enduring extreme challenges – be they explorers, climbers, sailors or their like – and finding out what they’re really made of (this despite, or maybe because of my personally being a very cautious person). A Voyage for Madmen is a cracking entry in that genre, and has sparked a thirst […]

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6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

Dangerous days for them, but terrific fun for me

Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt by Terry Deary

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I’m a huge fan of Terry Deary. For those of you not in the know, he’s the creator of the superlative Horrible Histories – aimed at kids (but adults find a lot to love too) and concentrating on the gross, gory and gossipy bits – and now the Dangerous Days series for the slightly more grown up. Dangerous Days in Ancient Egypt delivers exactly what it promises on the cover – pyramids, plagues, gods and grave-robbers – all told with its eye on keeping the reader entertained as they are informed. If you’re looking for tons of detail, you’re in […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Why settle for just one apocalypse when you can have two?

Deadline (Newsflesh, No 2) by Mira Grant

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Warning: Spoilers for Feed, the first book in the Newsflesh series are below. Click away now if you haven’t read it. The aftermath of the events of Feed have really done a number on Shaun Mason. Shooting your beloved sister as she turns into a zombie will do that to you. It’ll also have her setting up shop in your head for you to talk aloud to, lending credence to the popular theory that you’ve well and truly lost your marbles. But what Shaun hasn’t lost is the need to avenge Georgia’s death, and while her killer has already taken […]

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6/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Looks like I’ll be gorging myself on these

Feed by Mira Grant

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Feed is a stonking little zombie novel which is also the opening entry in a series, and one that I enjoyed so much that I immediately downloaded the rest on finishing.  Feed is set twenty years after the Rising, when George Romero films stopped being horror films and started being survival guides. Humanity found a cure for the common cold, as well as a cure for cancer. But when the two combined, it created the Kellis-Amberlee virus and now everyone in the world is infected – the virus lies dormant in the system until either coming into contact with the […]

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6/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |


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