Book Reviews
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THE LAST SHIELD by Cameron Johnston (BOOK REVIEW)
“How much fight can one broken old woman have left in her?” Briar, Commander of the Shields is about to show you… Sunweald Palace, home to ... -
WOMB CITY by Tlotlo Tsamaase (BOOK REVIEW)
“In our city, it is unwise to trust reality. I have been betrayed by reality, betrayed by my subconscious, shipwrecked from reality. Now every thought must ... -
THE SILVERBLOOD PROMISE by James Logan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Sometimes you owed it to yourself to do what was necessary, not what was easy.” When a duel ends badly for Lukan Gardova he goes ... -
THE BITTER CROWN by Justin Lee Anderson (BOOK REVIEW)
The Bitter Crown is the sequel to Justin Lee Anderson’s The Lost War, and the second book in his Eidyn Saga. This review will contain spoilers for The Lost ... -
The Hive reads THE HOBBIT – Final Part (READALONG)
Again we find we broke at around the same point that Jackson did, with Smaug – enraged by the smelly Dwarves and thieving Hobbit, flying off ... -
The Hive reads THE HOBBIT – Part 2 (READALONG)
Well that was a bit of surprise! We have besmirched Peter Jackson for toying with the canon narrative of the Hobbit and carving it into three ... -
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED by Frances White (BOOK REVIEW)
What a book to start 2024 with. Fantasy? Check. Magic? Yep. Humour? Definitely. ‘Closed room’ murder-mystery? 100%. I went into Voyage of the Damned relatively blind, ... -
The Hive reads THE HOBBIT (READALONG)
OK today (January 4th) being Tolkien’s Birthday has given me the impetus to get cracking on a project we’ve been chucking around in the Hive Team ... -
BLOOD RED by Gabriela Ponce translated by Sarah Booker (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wallow on the bathroom tiles, a red dot in this white universe. My solitude is writhing in a pain I never understood. I think about ... -
THREE EIGHT ONE by Aliya Whiteley (BOOK REVIEW)
“Are these the kinds of decisions people from the Age of Riches had to make all the time? To abandon what’s best for the world and ...









