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TheShitWizard

Most likely reading about murder and/or magic, with high hopes (likely to be dashed) of getting more than one cannonball for 2018.

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How he trained his dragon

Temeraire by Naomi Novik

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Captain Will Laurence has spent his life in the Navy, and expects it to continue that way. However, being currently embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars, that life soon comes to an end – but not through death. Instead, having captured a French ship, Captain Laurence’s ship takes its cargo as a prize…a large dragon’s egg, whose inhabitant decides upon hatching that Captain Laurence will do nicely for a handler. In this alternate history, dragons that aren’t paired with handlers tend to go feral, therefore losing whichever country that claims it as their own a very valuable asset in the aerial […]

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6/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

‘Are we talking about one body or two?’ Nilson replied, ‘Fifteen or sixteen, since 1978.’

Killing for Company by Brian Masters

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In February 1983, the residents of 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill started having problems with their drains. Calling out a plumber, the blockage would turn out to be much, much worse than the usual toilet blockages, as well as accounting for the terrible smell that had been permeating the house for some time. The resident in the attic flat had been flushing human flesh. Quickly arrested, Dennis Nilsen was extremely forthcoming with the police. As well as immediately copping to having bodies hid in his wardrobe awaiting disposal, police asked him if they were dealing with one body or […]

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6/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

How many miles to Babylon?

An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

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Proving once more that the third book of any urban fantasy series is where it hits its stride, An Artificial Night was absolutely everything I’d been looking for in this series and more, with Toby’s supposed investigatory skills taking a back seat and the strangeness of Faerie brought to the fore. When a number of children, both fae and human, are kidnapped from their homes one night, leaving behind nothing but a strange smell and burning window-glass, Toby heads to the older fae for answers and gets far more than she bargained for. For the culprit is Blind Michael, one […]

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6/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

How not to be a detective

A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

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The second in the Toby Daye series, A Local Habitation sees her back in the fold, in service once more to Sylvester as one of his Knights and the person he calls in when he needs things handled. Which is what he does when his niece, fairly new ruler of a young fae territory, stops returning his calls. Pitching up at Tamed Lightning (said niece’s territory) with a young apprentice in tow, Toby finds its inhabitants apparently experimenting with all sorts of computing technology whilst their numbers are slowly picked off, one by one.  For someone who apparently spent time […]

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6/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

If you must wear someone, you could do a lot worse than Deadpool

Deadpool: Back in Black by Cullen Bunn, Salva Espin

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The second part of my Deadpool birthday swag, Back in Black is set between the moment that the alien symbiote, Venom, abandoned his Spidey-host and before he latched on to Eddie Brock, and spent a while driving Deadpool’s body around instead. To be completely honest, I don’t really know much about the character of Venom besides what I saw in Spidey 3 where it turned Peter Parker into an even bigger douche than Tobey Maguire is in real life.  But while Venom doesn’t succeed in turning Deadpool into that big of a douchebag, it does make for a more subdued […]

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6/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

“There is an English dream of a warm summer evening on a branch-line train”

The Kingdom By The Sea by Paul Theroux

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I’ve had this sat on my kindle for the longest time – I read Mosquito Coast (and loved it) years ago, and so thought I’d give Theroux’s travel writing a go. Sat on a beach in Portwrinkle on a glorious day, a jaunt around the British coast seemed just the ticket. Having already lived in London for years by that point, Theroux decided to travel clockwise around the British coast as a way of getting to know the country better. Starting at the bottom of the south-east coast, just a short train trip away from his home, Theroux picks his […]

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6/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

And slays me in the process

Deadpool Kills Deadpool by Cullen Bunn; Salva Espin

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Deadpool Kills Deadpool is one of a number of Deadpool related swag I hauled in for my birthday, as well as being the third and final act of the Deadpool Killology. I read the second part, Deadpool Killustrated, nearly three years ago, but this was extremely easy to slip back into. For those who haven’t read the series so far, its premise is simple… Knowing that, as a fictional character, nothing really matters and wanting an end to it all, in the first part of the series Deadpool set about putting an entertaining end to every single Marvel character. In […]

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5/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:35 |


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