Dear Readers,
Quick and short post detailing a update/improvement to my blog.
I have updated my blog to include links to buy the books in the reviews at the bottom of each review. So far I only have links for the UK, USA and Germany but I hope to be getting more.
Hope you are finding my blog useful and will continue to use it to find out about and buy books.
The Devonian Book Reviewer
Saturday 2 July 2011
Friday 1 July 2011
BOOK REVIEW: Dreadnought (Mark Walden) HIVE
Book Dreadnought
Author: Mark Walden
Rating: 7/10
In the fourth full sized book of the series. Otto and his fellow student at HIVE once agian get caught up in danger as one of G.L.O.V.E's senior members and a major person in the technology business Jason Drake leaves and tries to destroy the people he once worked for.
He was unhappy with events which transipred to leave Number One(aka Overlord) dead and diabolus Darkdoom in charge of G.L.O.V.E (the global league of villainous enterprises). He believed the Overlord story was made up by Dr Nero and Darkdoom to cover a coup they did to seize control.
This by itself wouldn't be a problem but Drake has access to top military equipment and resources and has created a plan to bring GLOVE down .
He launches an assault on GLOVE's new mobile Air command platform ,the Dreadnought ,that he designed as a flagship for Number One. Unfortuneatly Otto and his friends our touring it with Nero and Raven on the way to a training excercise. they find themselves in the middle of a fairly one sided battle that they soon retreat from in the shroud dropship they arrvived in. unfortuneately Diabolus is captured.
And it seems this isn't the end of his plan. not in the slightest. he's planning to destroy the balance of pwer and turn america into the site of the word's biggest natural disaster. To do this he kidnapps the president, access the most top secret missle program in the world, a series of missles in orbit capable of triggering an explosion at Yellowstones super volcano.
Otto is the only one who can stop the missles firing using his strange ability to cancel the launch. As his friends attack the dreadnought and escape he is left to stop the missiles.he needs to find the device to stop the missiles. thankfully their still on board Air force One. Only two problems.
He's on sutck board Air force one with the president handcuffed to the chair.
and Air force One is falling out of the sky.
This is a really good book in a really good series. It's exciting and keeps you interested the whole way through. although this series is clearly aimed at younger people and I really enjoy them. check out this series for a good read.
Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Book Reviewer,
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Author: Mark Walden
Rating: 7/10
In the fourth full sized book of the series. Otto and his fellow student at HIVE once agian get caught up in danger as one of G.L.O.V.E's senior members and a major person in the technology business Jason Drake leaves and tries to destroy the people he once worked for.
He was unhappy with events which transipred to leave Number One(aka Overlord) dead and diabolus Darkdoom in charge of G.L.O.V.E (the global league of villainous enterprises). He believed the Overlord story was made up by Dr Nero and Darkdoom to cover a coup they did to seize control.
This by itself wouldn't be a problem but Drake has access to top military equipment and resources and has created a plan to bring GLOVE down .
He launches an assault on GLOVE's new mobile Air command platform ,the Dreadnought ,that he designed as a flagship for Number One. Unfortuneatly Otto and his friends our touring it with Nero and Raven on the way to a training excercise. they find themselves in the middle of a fairly one sided battle that they soon retreat from in the shroud dropship they arrvived in. unfortuneately Diabolus is captured.
And it seems this isn't the end of his plan. not in the slightest. he's planning to destroy the balance of pwer and turn america into the site of the word's biggest natural disaster. To do this he kidnapps the president, access the most top secret missle program in the world, a series of missles in orbit capable of triggering an explosion at Yellowstones super volcano.
Otto is the only one who can stop the missles firing using his strange ability to cancel the launch. As his friends attack the dreadnought and escape he is left to stop the missiles.he needs to find the device to stop the missiles. thankfully their still on board Air force One. Only two problems.
He's on sutck board Air force one with the president handcuffed to the chair.
and Air force One is falling out of the sky.
This is a really good book in a really good series. It's exciting and keeps you interested the whole way through. although this series is clearly aimed at younger people and I really enjoy them. check out this series for a good read.
Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Book Reviewer,
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Tuesday 28 June 2011
BOOK REVIEW: The Shapeshifter- Finding The fox (Ali Sparkes)
Book: Finding The Fox
Author: Ali Sparkes
Rating : 6.5/10
Dax Jones lives a fairly boring and miserable life with his sister and step -mum Gina, His dad works away on the Oil Rigs in the north sea and Gina is constantly being mean and spiteful. Locking him outside for hours on end because of his "attitude".
But then things change, One hot afternoon he gets locked in the garden shed and panics. He can't get out and he's half choking as he passes out.
Then he wakes up. He's orange,furry and has a tail, Dax has turned into a Fox!
The next day he finds a pair of bullies beating up his nerdy friend Clive. In rage he attacks the bullies and suddenly he's a fox again and bites and scratches them til they run away.
Dax's life has become really weird. He arrives home and finds a man talking to Gina about how he is a genius and is being offered a place in a school of the gifted. Owen couldn't possibly know about the fox thing could he?
Yet something in his gaze tells Dax he does.
Now Dax is part of the Cola Club, a school for kids with strange powers and is having the time of his life. But when a reporter threatens to expose him, Dax and his friends are in a lot of danger. But is the reporter a big a problem as some believe? and who can Dax trust in a school of supernatural abilities.
Read the books to have a very easy and enjoyable read.
This book is a great introduction to the series. Not entirely gripping the whole way through but it sets the scene very well and will make you want to read even more. I'd say aimed more at kids but I think anyone could enjoy it .
Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Book Reviewer
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Author: Ali Sparkes
Rating : 6.5/10
Dax Jones lives a fairly boring and miserable life with his sister and step -mum Gina, His dad works away on the Oil Rigs in the north sea and Gina is constantly being mean and spiteful. Locking him outside for hours on end because of his "attitude".
But then things change, One hot afternoon he gets locked in the garden shed and panics. He can't get out and he's half choking as he passes out.
Then he wakes up. He's orange,furry and has a tail, Dax has turned into a Fox!
The next day he finds a pair of bullies beating up his nerdy friend Clive. In rage he attacks the bullies and suddenly he's a fox again and bites and scratches them til they run away.
Dax's life has become really weird. He arrives home and finds a man talking to Gina about how he is a genius and is being offered a place in a school of the gifted. Owen couldn't possibly know about the fox thing could he?
Yet something in his gaze tells Dax he does.
Now Dax is part of the Cola Club, a school for kids with strange powers and is having the time of his life. But when a reporter threatens to expose him, Dax and his friends are in a lot of danger. But is the reporter a big a problem as some believe? and who can Dax trust in a school of supernatural abilities.
Read the books to have a very easy and enjoyable read.
This book is a great introduction to the series. Not entirely gripping the whole way through but it sets the scene very well and will make you want to read even more. I'd say aimed more at kids but I think anyone could enjoy it .
Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Book Reviewer
UK :
USA:
Germany:
Spain:
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