‘Peril on the Atlantic’ – A Book Review
Mystery, history, and travel from halcyon days: ‘Peril on the Atlantic’ by A.M. Howell has it all, in this great middle grade caper.
Mystery, history, and travel from halcyon days: ‘Peril on the Atlantic’ by A.M. Howell has it all, in this great middle grade caper.
“One” is a chilling dystopia set in a climate ravaged United Kingdom. It’s a natural successor to the Handmaid’s Tale.
‘Bad Influence’ by Tamsin Winter is an excellent teenage novel about fitting in and the perils of sharing candid photos.
‘The Boy Who Made Monsters’ examines childhood grief while telling the amusing tale of Benji and his quest to fake a loch monster.
‘Hokey Pokey’ is a roaring twenties tale that invokes both Agatha Christie and the gothic horror greats. An on trend novel with a unique take.
“Martial arts underdog rising to the top” is not a new story, but it’s given new life in the addictive SFF thriller ‘The Combat Codes.’
‘The Malevolent Seven’ is a spiky fantasy novel, featuring inventive magic and an appealing band of anti-heroes.
‘Deadlock’ by Simon Fox is a children’s adventure thriller featuring great action sequences, memorable characters, and awesome safe-cracking.
‘The Time Nature Keeps’ reveals the inner time mechanisms of the world around us, and is engrossing from start to finish.
‘The Justice of Kings’Â is an excellent modern fantasy with tight plotting, memorable characters, and utterly convincing world-building.Â
With ‘Lenny Lemmon and the Invincible Rat,’ Ben Davis delivers an engaging tale of friendship, rodents, and classic school capers.
‘The Art of the Prophecy’ by Wesley Chu is a wuxia-inspired fantasy with amazing fight scenes and a great riff on the classic prophecy trope.
With ‘Red Team Blues’ Cory Doctorow delivers an intriguing techno-thriller that educates as much as it enthralls.
‘The Space Between Us’ is a heartwarming alien contact novel that examines the very best of what makes us human.
‘Big Ideas from History’ is children’s history book that helps readers understand their place in a confusing world.
‘Beautiful Shining People’ by Michael Grothaus is a sublime near-future fable that will keep you gripped until the very end.
‘Keikeyi’ retells the ‘Ramayana,’ looking at its events through the eyes of Rama’s disgraced step-mother. An inventive and powerful read.
‘Nowhere Thief” by Alice M Ross, is a children’s adventure caper set in a multiverse of alternate Earths. What’s not to love?
‘Dark Dweller’ is classic-style Solar System science fiction. A tale of secrets, betrayal, and creatures from outer-space!
‘The Forcing’ is an excellent dystopian novel set on an Earth gripped by a climate crisis. Terrifying and thought-provoking in equal measure!
‘Wild Maps for Curious Minds’ is a wonderful infographic atlas that explores the wonders of the natural world, large and small.
My 2023 reading year has started with a bang! My first two books were both by authors who I picked to include in our previous best books of the year round-ups. Dave Hutchinson returns to the world of his Fractured Europe series, which I reviewed back in 2016, and N.K. Jemisin has treated us to the […]
2 more excellent Nosy Crow crime capers see us return to Paris with Alice Eclair and an altogether colder affair in ‘Murder at Snowfall.’
‘The Planets are Very Very Very Far Away’ demonstrates the scale of the Solar System and is a great way to inspire young minds to its size.
My last read of 2022 was a book I’d been looking forward to reading ever since it was first released in hardback to stellar reviews. With over 23,000 more reviews on Amazon, Cloud Cuckoo Land might be the book least in need of reviewing that I’ve ever written about for GeekDad. Nevertheless, it is so […]
‘City of Last Chances’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a compelling fantasy novel set in a bizarre world of intrigue and magic.
‘Curse Breaker’ by Simon Tudhope is a “Choose Your Own Adventure” style book for the 2020s. A whole world of adventure awaits!
Paul Cleave’s ‘The Pain Tourist’ is an engaging crime thriller with multiple mysteries perpetrated by some very devious criminals.
The ‘S.T.E.A.L.T.H’ novels by Jason Rohan are excellent middle grade adventure stories, filled with wisecracks and technological hi-jinks.
‘A Fractured Infinity’ places a tender love story at the heart of some multiverse shenanigans to deliver a satisfying SciFi read.