Bastian's Book Reviews

So, last week, the EU caused massive outrage in the UK with plans to prevent vaccines produced in the EU from entering Northern Ireland. How...

It's been a while since I wrote a review. I've been in a reading slump, which started last year and only got worse due to 2020 being...

Lilian's Spell Book starts out like many a traditional gothic haunted house horror novel. A family inherit a mansion in the countrysi...

When G Willow Wilson, author of Alif the Unseen , Cairo and Ms Marvel , writes a new novel, it goes immediately on my do-not-pass-go. go-...

Alif the Unseen is the story of a teenage hacker living in a generic Arabic emirate somewhere in the Gulf region just before the Arab Spr...

The October Man is a short novel set in Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London / Peter Grant contemporary fantasy universe. Only it'...

There is something mildly unsettling about a title like " Queenslayer ". Probably it's the fact that I am a bit of a sexist ...