Following Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), which I thought was hugely fun, and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), which I wasn't quite as keen on, we're back with a prequel to the series detailing how the Kingsman agency was first set up. It's the early years of the twentieth century, and unrest is brewing across … Continue reading The King’s Man (2021)
"Rain drums its fingers on the garden shed." Olivia's life is one of absence: a voice, parents, belonging - she has none of these. Instead she has the ability to see ghouls, shadowy people in varying states of decay. She also has her mother's journal, which ends on the sentence, "You will be safe as … Continue reading Gallant – VE Schwab
"'I'm sorry, Bob,' says Dr Armstrong, 'but they asked for you specifically because Hello Kitty is a Londoner.'" Laundry Files main narrator, Bob Howard, is suspiciously absent during the events of The Nightmare Stacks (book 7 in the series) and in this novella we get to follow the side mission he was undertaking in Japan. Yokai … Continue reading Escape from Yokai Land – Charles Stross
"'Bow chicka wow wow!'" We first met Sam Washington in The Plot is Murder, and we're now onto book 7 in the cosy mystery series. Sam was widowed young but decided to make her and her late husband's dream come true, by opening a mystery book store. Through the series she and her friends and family, … Continue reading Killer Words – VM Burns
"The ship fled between the stars." The fools have finally done it: launched the nukes and started the end of the human race. Except, 75 years later, humanity still exists out in the cold darkness of space, on a vast fleet of arks. How they got there is a discovery for the reader. Eryn is … Continue reading Stars and Bones – Gareth Powell
Back when Star Wars was new and exciting (ahem!), a mysterious, helmeted baddy by the name of Boba Fett went up against the original heroes of the series and met a sticky end. 'True' fans, however (ie not me!), read all the comics and canon/non-canon tales from the saga and already knew that a sarlacc's stomach … Continue reading The Book of Boba Fett (season 1)
"The boy was very still in the small white bed." The Stranger is a gunslinger on a quest, riding through the dreamlike lands of the Escapement. Dangers abound, from symbol storms and wild clowns, to giant stone Colossi walking the lands, and everywhere 'magic' swirling in the aether. In a parallel world, a man sits … Continue reading The Escapement – Lavie Tidhar
"One thing I loved about being married to someone who jumped out of bed wide awake was that he often made me coffee before I even stumbled downstairs." (We're on book six of the series, so if you don't want spoilers for the continuing background story look away now. Definitely no spoilers on the mystery, … Continue reading Renewed for Murder – Victoria Gilbert
"The hunger. The damned hunger." Welcome to the offices of the Stranger Times newspaper, your first choice for all things paranormal, weird and wonderful. Werewolves on the M60? Haunted cinemas and demon-infested pubs? Read all about such things here! But despite all the team's experience with the supernatural, they weren't really prepared for vampires - because … Continue reading This Charming Man – CK McDonnell
"By mid-afternoon the back courtyard of the gentles' wing of the inn lay quiet." Fellian works as an indentured servant for a tavern, where she is expected to use her gift - the ability to create light through magic. One day a group of soldiers arrive, and make her an offer: come and fight for … Continue reading Servant Mage – Kate Elliott
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