Category: Reviews
-
Review: The Great Zoo of China (Paperback)
Picking this one up on a punt, and vaguely recalling Jurassic Park back in the 90s, I wasn’t unimpressed by my first foray into Matthew Reilly’s work. The Great Zoo of China was an enjoyable rocket-sled ride that, tellingly, I finished in about three days. I’ve decided these days to be less ponderous about the…
-
Review: Divergent (Kindle Edition)
First of all, I received Divergent as part of an Amazon Prime deal which was pretty sweet, and I’d been mildly intrigued to give the series a go. I’d enjoyed The Hunger Games, which is a series of similar ilk prior to this. I’d had a few latent doubts about the Christian subtext that I…
-
Review: First Activation (Kindle Edition)
One of the joys of Kindle is discovering books that I’d thrown on there in a sale but forgotten about; First Activation being one of them. The story starts out with an interesting premise that does provide a pretty good hook. Ex-Army brothers Harry and Jack are travelling across the Atlantic on holiday but, after…
Richard Holliday - Author 