The Great Zoo of China
“See we have a little problem with the people at McDonald’s..They are McDonalds, we are McDowell’s. They have the golden arch, we have...
The Best of 2014
My favourite Books of 2014 By aReadingMachine At the beginning of this year I was picking up this and that and keeping my thoughts on...
The Fifth Vertex by Kevin Hoffman
Not bad but pretty average. It has strong premise in terms of having our main protagonist being unable to hear those around him and...
Judge Dredd Year One Omnibus by Matt Smith, Al Ewing, Michael Carroll
I read DC comics as a kid but was never a huge Dredd fan. It was the sort of comic I picked up once in a while, only to see this colossal...
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Great fun and absolutely worth a read. There was some really genuine gut busting laughs in this book especially in the first three...
Golden Son by Pierce Brown
I loved Red Rising but Golden Son is on another level of awesomeness and catapults Pierce Brown into the very highest ranks of science...
The Walled City by Ryan Graudin
I’ve always been fascinated by Kowloon’s Walled City in Hong Kong, with it being a place where the rules, culture and daily way of life...
The Younger Gods by Michael R. Underwood
Jacob Greene was raised in a cult, though to call it a cult might be a bit dismissive. They are killers, who have a relationship with a...
The Second Tree by John Butziger
An interesting espionage tale with shadowy government corporations, likeable yet unheroic protagonists and biblical overtones that weaves...
The Lies of Locke Lamora
I know I am little late to the game on this one but boy am I glad I grabbed a copy when I did. The “Gentleman Bastard” series has a...