Book 11 of 2024 📚

‘The Book With No Name’ by Anonymous

This was a recommendation.

I actually really quite enjoyed it. Not a book I would naturally pick up and read.

Think ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ meets ‘The X-Files’ meets ‘The Da Vinci code’. It has gangsters, karate monks, hitmen, cops, local gangs, and a serial killer. Together with the mysterious ‘Eye of the Moon’ pendant that everyone wants, the woman who recently came out of a 5-year coma, and a book that whoever reads ends up dead…it is a full-on horror spectacular.

It really shouldn’t work. But somehow it does.

Definitely worth a read.

Book 10 of 2024

‘Silent Saturday’ by Helen Grant

Teenage fiction. It was alright.

Took a lot of time to get to a last 15 page climax. Could have been much shorter.

Book 9 of 2024

‘The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century’ by Olga Ravn

This was a slightly strange read.

It’s written as a series of witness statements compiled in a workplace investigation. The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship consists of humans and humanoids. The ship visits a new planet called New Discovery and take on board a number of strange alien objects.

The novel explores the reactions of the humans and humanoids to these strange objects. They start to become deeply attached to them and leads to the employees questioning what it means to be truly living.

I think I liked it…but I’m not entirely sure…

Book 8 of 2024

‘The Long Run’ by Robert J. Brodey

Did not enjoy this.

It was one of those books where you can guess what is going to happen, and it does. Every single time.

The character can pick up things with his feet. He kills someone by picking up a syringe with his foot.

Another character is a really good climber. She climbs out a room to escape.

Cliche after cliche.

Will they die? They must. They don’t.

Will they escape? It’s impossible. They do.

Boring.

Book 7 of 2024 📚

‘My Sister, The Serial Killer’ by Oyinkan Braithewaite

This has been doing the rounds recently. I liked it. The sisters are really good characters that you love and hate in equal measures. Definitely worth a read.

A tad disappointed with the ending, I would have like something ‘more’, but worth reading all the same.

No spoilers.

Book 6 of 2024 📚

‘When Shadows Fall’ by Sita Brahmachari

Teenage fiction. It was ok.

We follow the story of Kai as tragedy after tragedy befalls him, beginning with the death of his baby sister, leading to drugs, crime and violence.

At the heart of the novel is a community that want to save their local ‘rec’ being built on by developers. Saving the ‘rec’ becomes a metaphor for all their struggles.