Dark Eden by Chris Beckett This is a gem, a true gem. Set in an accidental colony on a distant planet that the first people named Eden, the author has managed to create an original setting that is quirky, intriguing and strangely plausible. Angela (Gela) and Tommy were stranded on an alien world where the […]
Book Review The Jealous Kind by James Lee Burke Burke is a consistently strong author who turns out great book after great book. The Jealous Kind is no different. Aaron Broussard is a seventeen year old Texas boy learning the perilous ropes of life in 1950’s USA. Far from the idyllic portrayal normally presented […]
Book Review Down Among The Dead Men by Kerry Wilkinson I won’t spend too much time on this review as it’s really not worth it. The story is set in Manchester, England and that is what enticed me to the book. I get tired reading tales all located in the same few cities. I […]
Book Review The Good Son by Paul McVeigh It seems like a lifetime since Rebel Voice reviewed a book by an Irish author. The Good Son was worth the wait. Micky Donnelly lives in Ardoyne, in north Belfast, during the period when the Provisional IRA were at war with the forces of British colonialism. […]
Book Review Gilliamesque by Terry Gilliam This is an intriguing auto-biography by the only non-English member of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Terry Gilliam started out as a cartoonist in the US. He was involved in political activism in the States at a time when the Vietnam war was developing. It was there that he […]
Book Review The Deadlands by Benjamin Percy The author, James Frey, describes this book thus, ‘THE DEADLANDS is gorgeous and haunting and full of heart like some wonderful offspring of The Hobbitt, The Road and Stephen King’s Dark Tower series’. That’s a pretty good appraisal of this book (see Rebel Voice Book Review, The […]
Book Review No Middle Name by Lee Child I went and did it again. I read another Child book. This, despite the reservations that I had about the Jack Reacher series of which No Middle Name is one part – see Rebel Voice Book Review for Night School. This is a short story collection […]
Book Review Welcome To Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird I found this novel in the adult section at the local library, although it is written for adolescents. That said, it’s still an enjoyable and thought-provoking story about those caught up in the bloody conflict currently playing out in Syria. As much as I am tempted […]
Book Review Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathon Kellerman This novel is one in the popular Alex Delaware series. It is set in LA and is fairly standard fare from Kellerman who is a highly successful and accomplished author. Thalia Mars will be 100 years young on her next birthday. She contacts Delaware and, upon meeting, […]
Book Review The Guts by Roddy Doyle For anyone who has read the book, or seen the movie, of The Commitments and enjoyed either, this is the book for you. The Guts is Jimmy Rabbitte’s story. Jimmy has progressed from being the former manager of a failed Dublin soul band to becoming a settled […]
Book Review The Blade Artist by Irvine Welsh Begbie’s back! Fans of Trainspotting will be all too familiar with the psychopathic Scotsman who starred in both book and movie of the same name. The Blade Artist is Franco Begbie’s story. James Francis Begbie has moved from Edinburgh to California, where he has reinvented himself […]
Book Review The Fever – by Megan Abbott This story is almost a reworking of The Crucible, about the Salem witch trials, which were predicated upon female teenage hysteria. Deenie Nash is a normal 16 year old girl with the sort of friends that are so typical during secondary (high school) education. Her older brother, […]
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