Pauline's Fantasy Reviews

Way back in the seventies, there was a UK TV program called ‘The Survivors’. The premise was that almost everyone on earth had been wiped o...

Whew. {Pauses to catch breath} Well, that was a roller-coaster ride and no mistake. Action heaped on action, the same frenetic scene fragmen...

So here we are at the end of the trilogy. The first book, 'The Tattered Banner', I found a refreshing change from the typical sword...

There's always a worry with an author's follow-up to a spectacular debut. Whether you loved or hated the Broken Empire trilogy (Pri...

If I had to describe the characteristics I most look for in a book, I’d probably answer: memorable characters, an interesting setting, a pl...

It ’ s an odd thing, reading. There you are, chugging along quite happily through a story, feeling perhaps that it ’ s not the most thril...

This is a book that surely strikes a chord with every avid reader: the society it describes is one recovering from the worst of all traumas...

I bought this for all the wrong reasons. It’s not my usual genre (paranormal urban fantasy) in any way, but... it’s set in Liverpool, and ...

This is one of those books that I started with every expectation of hating it. It would be too pretentious, too clever for its own good, a...

I don’t read much Regency romance these days, although at one point in my life I worked my way through the entire Georgette Heyer catalogu...

Glenda Larke is one of a very small number of authors whose works are on my must-buy list, and a new book, and the first of a series to bo...

The word that springs to mind while reading this is portentous. The opening chapters are stuffed with mysterious happenings, deeply meani...

If I’d known going in that this was the twenty-fourth book in this particular series, perhaps I might have expected some problems. But it ...

Wouldn’t it be lovely if you could compose a song which would guarantee good weather or bountiful harvests or a cure for illness? That’s t...

This is a quirky little book, filled with eccentric characters who are nevertheless completely believable, reacting to an increasingly dra...

I ’ ve been catching up with a few short reads these past few days, which does wonders for the tbr list. There ’ s not enough to say ab...