Rating: 4 out of 5 I was so happy to realize that book 12 of William Meikle’s S-Squad series, Operation: Sahara, had come out! It’s a hugely fun series of adventure/horror/creature feature military-vs-monsters novellas. Each one takes just a couple…
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Short Take: “The Sea Below,” William Meikle
Rating: 4 out of 5 William Meikle’s horror adventure The Sea Below is the sequel to his The Land Below. In that book, two men wanted to search for a treasure supposed to be underground. They hired a “bodyguard,” who…
Review: “Yampellec’s Idol,” Skyla Dawn Cameron
Rating: 5 out of 5 Livi Talbot’s world has woken up to magic. Thanks to the Pulse a few years back–not that anyone seems to understand what it actually was–magic has returned to the world. It isn’t on every street-corner…
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Review: “A Broken Darkness,” Premee Mohamed
Rating: 5 out of 5 NOTE ADDED: Now it’s looking like there WILL be a third book in this series, so I’m upping my rating to a 5/5. I’m fine with waiting to see what’s going on–I just didn’t want…
Review: “Raptor: A TECH Ops Novel,” John G. Hartness
Rating: 3 out of 5 John G. Hartness’s Raptor: A TECH Ops Novel has a great premise, but some crucial failures as well. It’s quasi-military sci-fi, in that the TECH Ops squads aren’t run by the military, and not all…
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Short Take: “Operation Yukon,” William Meikle
Rating: 5 out of 5 William Meikle’s Operation: Yukon is the 11th book in his wonderful S-Squad series. These are fun military-versus-monsters tales with a squad of Scottish lads who get a reputation for being monster magnets. I urge you…
Review: “Operation North Sea,” William Meikle
Rating: 5 out of 5 Operation: North Sea is the latest “S-Squad” book from William Meikle. This is a series with plenty of military-vs-monsters fun with a touch of horror (occasionally a hint at cosmic horror), and a touch of…
Short Take: “The Land Below,” William Meikle
Rating: 5 out of 5 In William Meikle’s horror/adventure novella The Land Below, ex-military man Daniel Garland gets talked into going caving with Ed and Thomas Ellington, as their guard. Ed is looking for a lost treasure in Austria, left…
Review: “The Void Protocol,” F. Paul Wilson
Rating: 3 out of 5 F. Paul Wilson’s The Void Protocol (The ICE Sequence (3)) picks up with Laura and Rick once again on the outs after his revelation at the end of the previous book. This time, the new…
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Review: “The God Gene,” F. Paul Wilson
Rating: 4 out of 5 F. Paul Wilson’s The God Gene: A Novel (The ICE Sequence Book 2) picks up a little after the close of Panacea. Rick Hayden’s adoptive brother Keith (a zoologist) has gone missing. He liquidated all…
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