Category: Reviews
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Review: The Vanished Man (Kindle Edition)
I’ve been steadily working my way through Jeffrey Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme series of thriller/crime novels and the fifth instalment was another enjoyable outing! The Vanished Man pits quadriplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme on the pursuit of an illusionist turned murderer who uses every trick in the book (pun very much intended) to evade capture. Slowly over the course of…
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Review: Sunshine State (Paperback)
I recently was required to read Sunshine State as part of my Creative Writing degree course at Kingston University; it being a post-apocalyptic novel sweetened the deal a fair bit! I was tasked with reading the novel primarily to observe an example of setting and world-building, and it is on this basis that I begin. The premise…
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Review: Xenonauts (PC/Steam)
I always held a certain appreciation for X-COM: UFO Defense, the cult mid-90s strategy hit that pits humanity (in the form of paramilitary organisation X-COM) against a classic alien invasion. X-COM was a devilishly-deceptive game, and notoriously difficult. When Firaxis recently-ish rebooted the series, I was, once my nostalgia cloud dispersed, fully on-board. With my…
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