Literary rating: ★★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆½ When the apocalypse comes, if popular fiction is any guide, it’s going to be undead and craving brains. But not far behind in terms of literary popularity, appears to be an EMP. This is a high altitude nuclear detonation, which would unleash an electromagnetic… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆ Not many novels come with a ringing endorsement from a former director of the CIA, but Gina Haspel calls this “A thoroughly enjoyable, engrossing thriller.” Argue with her, and she’ll send you an exploding cigar, or something. While it certainly isn’t bad, the rating… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆½ The literary rating is mostly down to the sluggish way in which this gets going. Though having subsequently discovered this is the first in a fourteen volume series, it’s perhaps understandable if the author decided to slow-play things in the early stages. Still, as… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★½ “Heathers: the seventies remix.” This is now the third film with the same title to be reviewed on the site: no vampires or Russian sorceresses to be found here. This does get an extra half star for genuinely surprising me. In the early stages, I had a strong feeling… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆½ I was disappointed by the lack of tentacles. However, there were certainly no shortage of teeth in this post-apocalyptic tale, which takes place decades after the arrival of monsters, from an uncertain source, has led to the collapse of civilization on Earth. The survivors… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆ There are reviews which are easy to write, because – good or bad – the subject generates a lot to talk about. This is not one of those. It’s a bland slice of semi-urban fantasy, which just… sits there, the literary equivalent of a bowl… 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: ★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆½ This is another entry in the sprawling Kurtherian Gambit universe, which must have well over a hundred books in it, by a slew of different authors. I’m gradually coming to a couple of conclusions: a) it’s a very loosely-tied series, and b) the quality… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆☆ I am, probably, biased here. Scottish action heroines are pretty rare, to the point I am hard pushed to think of a single one I’ve covered previously, in the twenty years I’ve been running this domain. [I just made myself feel very old…] So… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆☆ It’s the year 2369, and Astrid Amundsen is an officer in training, in her fourth year at the Annapolis Naval Academy [we’re talking space navy, obviously]. As part of her education, she and four other recruits are assigned as midshipmen on the USS Valley… Continue reading| Girls With Guns