Duncan Swan ★★★★ Deep beneath the Switzerland/France border sits the Large Hadron Collider, built in the quest for answers to some of theoretical physics’ most elusive questions. It was supposed to be safe, but when a malfunctioning experiment explodes, all a rag-tag group of scientists can do is flee the facility and try to make…… Continue reading Monstre [Volume One]
Month: June 2020
Gone
Leona Deakin ★★★ I don’t often read crime thrillers set in the UK, as I find that they tend to be pretty tame in comparison to their American counterparts, or they go overboard with the gore in order to try and stand out. I was pleasantly surprised that this novel fit neither of those stereotypes.…… Continue reading Gone
Hope Island
Tim Major ★★ Nina Scaife, TV producer and workaholic extraordinaire, is making her first journey to Hope Island, Maine. It’s where her partner grew up, and where he takes their daughter on their annual visit to her grandparents, but this year it’s been left to Nina. She is hoping that the trip will help her…… Continue reading Hope Island
The Doors of Eden
Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★ The Doors of Eden isn’t so much genre spanning as genre destroying. It begins with a pair of cryptozoologists hunting for birdmen on Bodmin Moor, and ends with… well, that would be spoiling it. Along the way, it flits through virtually every fiction genre going, with so many twists and turns that…… Continue reading The Doors of Eden
