It was nearing the end of winter and the Grim Reader was in desperate need of some action-packed nonsense, Severed Press style! Along came Frostbite by Dave Jeffery. Frostbite came across as exactly the sort of book I was looking for. A group of hardened ex-special ops are sent on a mission to find the son…
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Book review: Primordia II – Return to the Lost World – Greig Beck
I had a ball with Greig Beck’s first Primordia book and was super keen to get a hold of this sequel. The wait for this hasn’t been long and so I remembered everything from the first novel. Readers here should be well aware I have a great love of dinosaur books and Greig Beck…
Book review: Thylacines – Deborah Sheldon
The characters in this book obviously never watched Jurassic Park as a university professor decides it a good idea to resurrect a litter of thylacines from a preserved specimen. But what the hell is a thylacine? Well, the thylacine was a Tasmanian tiger. A wild dog, much like a dingo, it was well-known because of…
Book review: Dead Bait 4 – Anthology
I’ve been gobbling up quite a few anthologies and magazines featuring short stories so far in 2018. So much so that I became a little bit fatigued reading Dead Bait 4. I went in having never read any of the previous volumes and to be honest, I was expecting (hoping) to get a collection of…
Book review: Primordia – Greig Beck
My first dinosaur book of the year was this ripper from Greig Beck. Primordia takes inspiration from Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous novel The Lost World. In this book, we follow Ben Cartwright and his friends as they try to locate a hidden plateau located deep within the Amazon jungle thought to be home to dinosaurs….
Book review: Recon Marines – P. K. Hawkins
When a group of 40+ battle-hardened marines investigate an enormous ship housing a host of biological nasties, things soon go pear-shaped. It doesn’t take long for our tough-talking soldiers to become locked in a fight for survival against all sorts of bizarre and other-worldly alien creatures. Recon Marines does exactly as it says on the…
Book review: Savage Jungle – Hunter Shea
It’s review number two for Hunter Shea and I’ll give the man his due, he sure knows how to entertain. Savage Jungle is another fun and crazy journey into the imagination of one of the best writers of cryptid inspired fiction. Simply put, Savage Jungle is what I call popcorn fiction. It’s the sort of…
Book review: The Trench – Paul Mannering
I’ve read a few books by Paul Mannering and he does this sort of action/horror fiction, often set in the middle of some ocean better than most. Both his previous books, ‘Hell’s Teeth’ and ‘Eat’ were great, fun reads, filled with gore, humorous dialogue and lightning fast pacing. ‘The Trench’ follows a familiar storytelling path….
Book review: Megalodon Apex Predator – S.G. Larsson
It’s nearly the end of January and it’s time for the first shark book of 2017. Now, before we begin let’s get one thing clear. This is NOT literary fiction. It’s utter nonsense and I love it. I don’t want progressive character development, rich plotting, twists and turns. All I want is giant prehistoric sharks…
BTB Storytellers episode 13: Nathan Robinson talks STARERS
Released back in 2012 by Severed Press, ‘Starers’ saw author Nat Robinson take an ordinary family and put them into an extraordinary situation where complete strangers and neighbors stand outside of the Keene house simply staring at them. Weird huh? very cool though. ‘Starers’ is a fast-paced and darkly humorous book that typifies Robinson’s writing style…
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