Book Review: The Axeman's Jazz - Ray Celestin

OK, so we have the first book in the City Blues Quartet. I have recently reviewed book three.

So, based on a true crime that happened in New Orleans, over a period covering 1918/19.

There is a jazz montage of some of the most famous and well known names of the era. The 'mob' is ever present. Along with a whole host of both corrupt and normal policemen.

It covers the main protagonists, of the books, although they haven't as such met.

This reads as easily as other works, by this author.

I would give this book a strong 4.8 out of 5.

Status: Completed

Book Review: Cthulhu Casebook, Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea Devils

i seem to be making a habit of falling into a series either at the end or penultimate edition. there is no change with this book. it is the last of the cthulhu casebooks trilogy.

i can state, that it works perfectly well as a stand alone. there are references to the other books, but you need no knowledge of them as they don't detract from the story line.

a conglomerate of lovecraft and conan doyle. might sound a little much. but it is perfectly narrated, and logged by holmes's sidekick watson.

whether or not the ending was acceptable. i can not question. it does seem a massive leap taken

status: completed

Book Review: The Mobster's Lament - Ray Celestin

I'd like to say that I brought  this on it's merits. However, I stumbled over it quite by chance. That chance turned into a love affair. Jazz, the Mob and 40's New York. There's nothing not to like.

The pages turned very, very easily, slipping into the story, well lets just say I sort of fell. The character's developed with the plot. The original basis of it, got lost in the surroundings with such powerful people and the unforgiving back drop. Like the city itself, it left you in awe.

I could not recommend this book enough. It draws you in and keeps you there, often against your own will.

Status: Completed.

Review - Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Marlon James.

Well, I'd like to say that I manged to read this to completion. Was it that it was badly written. No. Lack of plot and character. Again, No. Substance, there.

I've literally spent weeks of my life trying to read this. I've got to put this down before I lose what sanity I have. If and I mean if, you manage to read more than twenty pages in one sitting. Your better than me.

Everything is there. I wanted so much t read this. But, I am having to abandon this title. I have lost the will to read on. I have not picked it up in over a week, that says something. I normally read everyday, without fail.

That just leaves the status of the book: Unfinished.

Sorry.

Book Review: Salvation - Peter F Hamilton

ok, so this may have taken me a lot longer to read than i was expecting. but, please do not let this detract from the book itself.

it is the first part in the salvation series, and in true hamilton style, it is a space opera whilst telling the story, making you want to read more. humans, olyix. in body implants. travel between LA and NYC in an instant, for only $10. escapism, earth under attack. all your usual suspects, entwined in a matter, well that has left me already having pre-ordered the second in this series