Murder at the CDC (Capital Crimes #32)
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2017: A military transport on a secret run to dispose of its deadly contents vanishes without a...
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Her Druid Fantasy (The Amber Druid Series #2)
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HER DRUID FANTASY-- Can her fantasy survive a life-altering change to become her reality? ...
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David McK (3929 KP) rated Scoundrel (the sailing thrillers, #5) in Books
Nov 29, 2023
Maybe because I'm *from* Belfast, Northern Ireland and have relatives who lived through the period of history colloquially known as The Troubles (I was a teenager in the 90s, when they 'ended', and when this is set), so know exactly what the IRA and their loyalist counterparts were/are like.
It made my blood boil to read passages in this where they were treated as heroes by some in Boston (and, yes, I know it's a fiction book): surely to goodness nobody could be that naive??
Anyway, I normally like Bernard Cornwell (Author) novels.
I know he spent a bit of time here (the BBC, I believe?), before moving to the States.
His knowledge of landmarks does show.
I would have thought he would have known better, though, in how he portrays the tangled mess that is politics and history that went on in this fair isle.
Sorry, Mr Paul Shanahan: you're unlikeable as a lead character; no match to a Richard Sharpe or an Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
(his other stand-alone sailing thrillers - those I have read, at least - are all much better)
His Lordship's Blood (His Lordship’s Mysteries #4)
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Even after a year of having an earl for a lover, Dominick still isn’t prepared for the dazzling...
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Fire Witch (Witches of Westwood Academy #3)
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Can Westwood Academy handle the blazing inferno that erupts when these two touch? Tana McKenna...
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I tore through this. When you realise that for the meteoric rise of the main character, Becky, there will be a plummet, it’s a case of morbid fascination!
And like the original, this is a story without a hero. None of the men are particularly “dashing”, or nice, in fact. Becky isn’t a likeable character either. She knows what she wants, and will do anything in the dirty world of tabloid “news” to get it.
I couldn’t stop reading this, and I closed the book after the last page thinking: “Well THAT was a good job!”
So hopefully I haven’t given too much away, and if you’ve read any of my other reviews, you’ll know that I love to hate a character, and Becky has this particular trait in spades!
It’s a cracking read!
David McK (3929 KP) rated Red Dwarf: Titan in Books
Oct 11, 2026
They then, later (and after penning 'Red Dwarf Omnibus: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers & Better Than Life') split, going their separate ways.
Following this split, Doug Naylor wrote 'Last Human'] (1995, I think), while Rob wrote 'Backwards' (1996).
What do all those have in common?
They're all more-or-less set in the 'current' timeline of Red Dwarf, with Dave Lister the last Human alive, thousands of years in the future and accompanied only by The Cat, a Hologram of his dead bunk-mate Rimmer, and the mechanoid Kryten. (and the ship computer Holly, and - in later series's of the TV show, Lister's ex-crush Kristine Kochanski instead of Rimmer).
This, to the best of my knowledge, is the first story to be set as a prequel, and "one universe to the side".
It also provides an alternative reason for the nuclear melt-down that saw Red Dwarf launched deep into space, with Lister in suspended animation at the time, than has been given before.
I'm also not sure I would describe this as "hilarious": enjoyable enough, yes, but not as funny as some of the earlier works.
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