Literary rating: ★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆½ I don’t subscribe to the belief that authors need to be the same sex, race, religion or whatever as their characters. A good author can put you inside the head of their heroine, even if they’re a different species, an extra-terrestrial, or whatever. But… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ★★★ Bold is an incredibly prolific author, whose site lists eight separate series of novels, with a total of sixty-four books between them. The series are mostly named in the format, “ FBI thriller”, which does suggest a certain production-line quality to them. I wonder… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★½ “Bleeding terrible, innit?” It is possible to do Lovecraft on a low-budget and make it work. Earlier this year, I was introduced to the delightful films of Lars Henriks, who did a whole trilogy of micro-budget movies, loosely in the Lovecraft universe. Taken in the right spirit, they’re quite… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆½ This SF novel takes place in the future where the human Commonwealth is engaged in a brutal space war against the militaristic Shrehari Empire – imagine Klingons on krack, perhaps. They have superior technology, but humanity’s ability to think outside the box and improvise… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆½ As the title suggests, this is one of those literary mash-ups, similar to Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. However, beyond the steampunk influence apparent from the title, this adds another major twist, with the universe here being a gender-swapped one. For in this world,… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆ “A. W. Hart,” the nominal author of the Avenging Angels series, is actually a house pen name used by Wolfpack Publishing for the multiple authors of this and one or two of their other series. Where books are marketed or shelved by the author’s… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★½ “As appetizing as its title.” To be one hundred percent clear, the best thing about this is the rather arresting poster. A far better film than what we have here, would struggle to live up to it. Instead, we have a classic example of vanity cinema, where one man… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆☆ Like “Franklin W. Dixon” and “Carolyn Keene,” “A. W. Hart” is the house pen name assigned by the publisher to all the various authors of individual books in the series of which this novel is the seventh installment. In this case, though, A. W.… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
