The best way to describe this book is Sherlock Holmes meets Harry Potter. This is the first on a series which follows Peter Grant, police officer with the London Met and apprentice wizard. While I enjoyed this book from the start I found it slightly slow in the beginning. The reason of course is ...
Mmm, a story based around Punch and Judy, Mother Thames (African lady) and Father Thames!! Stretching it a bit there, for my tastes.I found the narrator's tone ever so slightly condescending, but that could just be me.The many references to the protagonist's lurid thoughts about the females he ca...
The second Peter Grant book, this time revolving around jazz musicians dying suddenly and Peter's enthusiastic new girlfriend. That part of the story was interesting, but the stuff about the Faceless Man confused me. Sure, it's horrifying, but who is he and what's his deal? If it was ever expl...
For PC Peter Grant's third outing, he goes underground - the sewers and Tube of London. These are great engineering masterpieces of the Victorian era, and it's no surprise to find that the fae and the 'other' have made them their own.We've got a nasty murder on our hands, and an FBI agent to cope...
'Just how technologically advanced are they?' The Doctor frowned. 'Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.' The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the closest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no wa...
'Doctor Who' series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1997 Cover illustration by Jon Sullivan ISBN 0 426 20484 0 Typeset by Galleon Typesetting, Ipswich Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham PLC All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to...
The plane trees were still standing in their places along the pavement (in with the bad air, out with the good). Ming was still alive, probably out of a job, but still alive. The sun was shining and the clouds still drifted where they wanted to go.Best of all, the Doctor was leaving.She heard the...
I pointed out that a definition like that was so broad as to essentially include any use of magic outside of that authorized by the Folly. Nightingale indicated that he regarded that as a feature, not a bug. “Black magic is the use of the art to cause injury to another person,” he&#...
It is perhaps fitting that it took an android race to perceive the Daleks’ ultimate weakness. When the blow came it took the Daleks’ strategic planners by surprise. They had used biological weapons against many races, in the Spiridon campaign, for example. It never occurred to the Daleks that the...
Beverley was asleep with her head on my shoulder and one leg cocked possessively over my groin. I yawned and wondered where we were – we’d definitely gone with the flow the night before – but I was careful not to wake Beverley, not least because we were still doing that weird buoyancy thing and I...