With the aid of the Pandora Spirits, the elder Gods have taken a giant step toward freeing the dread Lord Cronus. It seems that Earth's only hope rests with Sam Linnifer and the power of the Light bestowed upon him by Time. But unleashing the Light would have deadly consequences for Sam. For to d...
The Obsidian Dagger is the second book in the Horatio Lyle series by British author, Catherine Webb. As Horatio, Thomas, Tess and Tate work on their pressure-differential-velocity aeronautic device, their research is interrupted by Lord Lincoln, who insists that Her Majesty once again requires Ly...
It was a fairly enjoyable read, hence the '3 stars', but I think 'The Obsidian Dagger' was better. The first chapter was a bit 'over descriptive', in that the use of verbs and adverbs was kind of 'over-done'. You know how Stephen King said 'The road to Hell is paved with adverbs'? Well, I found t...
Sam was ten minutes early. Under the cover of illusion he bought himself a foul instant coffee and perched, plastic cup in hand, on a bicycle rail outside the station’s main entrance. He was too tired to notice the passage of people through the car park, the burning of neon lights or the cracklin...
So was his bag. It had been searched, and the Molotov cocktails and Coke cans discovered. That had just about clinched it. His hands were cuffed behind his back. The two policemen in the front of the car didn’t look the least sympathetic as they wove through the traffic towards the station. There...
Some liked humans, some thought they were the scourge of the earth; some didn’t particularly mind iron so long as it kept a safe distance away from them and wasn’t particularly magnetic, and even then it would probably bring them out in a rash; some found the merest thought of going within five m...