★★½ “Still a better movie than Wonder Woman 1984.“ This Taiwanese production takes place on an island where women have been separate from men for 23 generations, developing more or less your stereotypical Amazonian society. Men are rejected, male babies tossed out to see to sink or swim (typically the former)… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆ I don’t necessarily expect to understand a literary universe from the first page. These things take time: I get that. But I do expect that, as I go through the chapters, things will become clear. If I reach the end, and am still vague… 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 “The eyes have it.” New rule. If ever I become an evil, kidnapping overlord, I shall be sure not to leave potentially lethal power-tools left lying easily accessible, around the place where the abductee is being kept. This is just one of the many mistakes made by the criminals… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆ To be frank, I was expecting rather more action given the title here. Almost all of it, however, takes place “off-screen”, as it were, being described second-hand, rather than experienced. It makes sense in the context of the book, and it’s not badly written.… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆½ It’s a little hard to explain the universe in which this takes place. Humanity existed. However, their encounter with other races proved problematic for a variety of reasons, and led to them being exterminated, a genocide that was partly collateral damage in a war… 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: ★★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆ This is set around fifty years after “the Provocation”, a series of unsolved mass abductions which led to Capernica becoming a strictly-controlled hierarchical society of Uppers, Lowers and the Military. Orphan Jaclyn Holloway is a Lower, living in near poverty in the seaside town… Continue reading| Girls With Guns