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TheShitWizard

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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 |

I nearly cried myself dry

Dance with the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss by David Bagby

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If you’ve seen Dear Zachary, you’ll already know of the harrowing case that is contained within this book. I haven’t seen the film but was gifted this, and can now safely say that I will continue to avoid the film for fear of crying myself into a dessicated shell of my former self. Dance With the Devil is the memoir of David Bagby, father to Andrew and grandfather to Zachary, whose lives were both cruelly stolen by Dr Shirley Turner. It’s a howl of grief, a devastating memoir of the effects of their loss on David and his wife, and […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

Na na na na na na na na BATMAN!

Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert

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Despite my boyfriend being obsessed with Batman, I’ve never read one of the many Batman comics he has (I’m more likely to be found with my nose buried in a Deadpool one), and so the first time I was aware that my beloved Neil Gaiman had written a Batman comic was when reading about it in The View From The Cheap Seats. It was immediately bought for my boyfriend’s birthday (translation: for me), and has been sat on the living room table giving me ‘read me’ eyes ever since. This weekend, I gave in. I realise that my first Batman […]

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5/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

The best kind of brain balm

A Kiss for Midwinter by Courtney Milan

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Doctor Jonas Grantham is in want of a wife. A very practical man, Dr Grantham knows that this is by far the most convenient way to have regular sex without risking an STD, and he soon decides that the eleventh prettiest girl in Leicester would do quite nicely. Unfortunately for Dr Grantham, Miss Lydia Charingford recognises him as the young doctor who was present a few years’ prior when his mentor pronounced her pregnant and ruined forever, and this coupled with Dr Grantham’s boorish attempt at introducing himself to her makes her quite sure that he thinks her a young […]

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5/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Probably more my fault than the book….

The Book of English Magic by Richard Heygate, Philip Carr-Gomm

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The Book of English Magic turned out to have two very special magic powers: It made me realise that I’m nowhere near as open-minded as I think I am, and It managed to make one minute of reading fell like ten years of slogging through swampland Let me explain… Despite not being at all spiritual or religious myself, I do enjoy reading about the beliefs that some people hold as a way of trying to better understand them. Whilst I’ve often then arrived at some kind of understanding, in the same way that I would understand a story, I still […]

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5/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |


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