A murder mystery with sci-fi dressing, One Way is set in a not too far distant future in which humanity is about to colonise Mars. Getting there is going to be extremely costly though, and so the billion-dollar corporation responsible for the project has decided to cut corners. One of the ways in which costs can be kept down is by sending humans to do the initial habitat building required and, due to the dangerous nature of the work, disposable humans at that. Which is […]
Some family reunions just ain’t worth the trouble
I’ve been trying and failing to get my hands on a copy of this on my Kindle for the longest time, but it seems that you can’t do so in the UK for love nor money, so in the end I had to smuggle the paperback into the house (since my book collection hit the double hundreds and we ran out of shelving space, I promised I wouldn’t buy any more. But let’s face it, promises mean nothing in the face of a serious series […]
Living in my worst nightmare
Pressed upon me by a friend who exclusively reads thrillers, despite being fairly run of the mill for quality in this genre, The Girl Before had an interesting central premise and was a very easy read – so easy I devoured it in one sitting. Emma is still reeling from a traumatic break-in, while Jane has suffered a devastating loss. Both women are struggling to find their equilibrium as well as somewhere affordable to live that’s not a security nightmare, and One Folgate Street is […]
Posts review and runs away
Sometimes, the timing just isn’t right for a particular book. Having chosen to start reading Kushiel’s Dart at an incredibly stressful time where work completely took over my life, it took me forever to get through this as I’d constantly find myself having zoned out thinking about a work problem and then struggling to find the thread again. I’m not sure whether that would have happened had I not been so stressed, but as it was Kushiel’s Dart didn’t hook me in the way that […]