Book Review – CSI:NY Four Walls
Author: Keith R.A. DeCandido Cover Artist: Publisher: Pocket Star Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: May 2008 This review is for the CSI: New York novel Four Walls by Keith R.A. DeCandido. I am familiar with DeCandido’s Star Trek work, but this is my first exposure to his CSI work. I also admit that, while I [...]
Book Review – Wolverine: Nature of the Beast
Author: Dave Stern Cover Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz Publisher: Pocket Star Binding: Paperback Publication Date: May 2008 A favorite X-men character gets a great story (but generally lousy treatment) in this novel. Wolverine is perhaps Marvel’s most compelling X-men character. While his backstory and volatile makes him interesting, it can also make him easily cliched and [...]
Book Review – Exodus
Author: Mel Odom Cover Artist: Blur Studio Publisher: Pocket Star Binding: Paperback Publication Date: June 2007 Simon Cross escaped a life in London of secretly training and preparing to save humanity from a demon invasion. He no longer believed in those stories and legends. He’d made a new life for himself in South Africa. But [...]
Book Review – Fantastic Four: What Lies Between
Author: Peter David Cover Artist: Glen Orbik Publisher: Pocket Star Binding: Paperback Publication Date: July 2007 It wasn’t “Fantastic”-but it was enjoyable! “Fantastic Four: What Lies Beneath” is a stand-alone Fantastic Four adventure written by Peter David. When Reed Richards and Johnny Storm go to a scientific lab because they’re asked to endorse a project, [...]
Book Review – Resident Evil: Extinction
Writer: Keith R.A. DeCandido Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: July 2007 Resident Evil: Extinction by Keith R.A. DeCandido is the novelization of the movie by the same name, both based on the Resident Evil video game franchise. DeCandido is well known for his novelizations of many media intellectual properties including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, [...]
Book Review – 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead
Author: Steve Niles, Jeff Mariotte Cover Artist: Ben Templesmith Publisher: Pocket Star Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2006 For FBI Special Agent Andy Gray things never looked bleaker in 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead by Steve Niles and Jeff Mariotte, a vicious and ghastly dive into a ruthless world of vampires. While working [...]
Book Review – Kindred Spirit
Author: John Passarella Publisher: Pocket Star Binding: Paperback Publication Date: May 2006 John Passarella is the Bram Stoker award-winning author and co-author of the popular WITHER series of books, as well as BUFFY and ANGEL tie-in novels. However, his latest release is all his own, neither a tie-in nor collaboration. KINDRED SPIRIT is a supernatural [...]
Book Review – Tong Lashing
Author: Peter David Publisher: Pocket Star Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1995 In Tong Lashing, Peter David returns to his self-obsessed, self-analyzing anti-hero, Apropos. In the first two books of the series, we are introduced to Apropos, a cripple who is born to a bar wench/prostitute by way of a knightly gang rape. We see his [...]
Book Review – War of The Ancients: The Well of Enternity
Author: Richard A. Knaak Publisher: Pocket Star Binding: Paperback Publication Date: March 30, 2004 Finally, I settled into my new apartment in a new country. The good news about this place, there is a Barnes and Noble close by. I mean, finally….a book store! We didn’t have one such as these back homes, all my [...]
Book Review – Dragon Precinct
Author: Keith R.A. DeCandido Publisher: Pocket Star Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2004 Ahem, yes, well, where to begin with this one… Basic flavor in a nutshell? I would have to go with mystery/crime solver sprinkled with fantasy-lite elements. My biggest beef with this cross-genre book is that it doesn’t commit to either genre. Admittedly, the [...]
