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01Oct 2025 by Luke Harkness No Comments

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins book review

A successful series has to have a bigger and better sequel where everything that was established in the first book is built upon and the potential plot points hinted at are fulfilled. Catching Fire, the second in the Hunger Games series, does exactly that - ramping up the action, the tension and the politics. This article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the product. Please note that Catching Fire is the sequel to The Hunger Games, so if you haven't yet read my review of that, then there will be spoilers in this review of the previous book.…

07Sep 2025 by Luke Harkness No Comments

In The Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan book review

Book reviews, Crime, Sci-Fi

Every now and then, in between the larger, more complex reads, I want to pick something up that's a little more down to earth yet has still received enough praise that I know I'm very much going to enjoy it. In The Blink of an Eye by Joe Callaghan was the perfect book for this at the time. It's a police book where they introduce a futuristic AI model to help out with cases and everyone's rightfully sceptical - right up my street! This article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the product. DCS Kat Frank is returning…

03Aug 2025 by Luke Harkness 1 Comment

Orbital by Samantha Harvey book review

Book reviews, Sci-Fi

Orbital by Samantha Harvey was the book I picked to read after you all chose it as a must read for me in 2025. It's a book about a small set of astronauts orbiting space and their thoughts on Earth, life and humanity as well as the thoughts of a few people living on Earth on the same matter. This article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the product. Orbital is more of a novella than it is an actual novel and even though it's fictional, it feels more like the author's own thoughts than it does a…

02Mar 2025 by Luke Harkness 1 Comment

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel book review

Book reviews, Sci-Fi

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel was my December follower book of the month. So, many people thought it good enough that I should read it in 2024 but what did I end of thinking about it? Well, if you watch my quick video review of it, you can see I didn't think too much about it. This article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the product. Sea of Tranquility's story follows multiple characters, including a 20th-century exile, a 22nd-century author, and a time traveller investigating an anomaly that links them all. It's got some underlying…

17Jan 2025 by Luke Harkness No Comments

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch book review

Book reviews, Sci-Fi

Dark Matter is a book that seemed right up my street and Blake Crouch has quite a few books that I knew I wanted to start getting my teeth into at some point. So when Martin who follows me on Tik Tok very kindly surprised me by buying me a copy from my Amazon wish list, I knew I wanted to prioritise it as a read. Shortly after I received it, I was going on holiday so there was no better time to pick it up and read it than when I'd just be laying around on a beach or by a pool for the majority of the day! This article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive…

04Jan 2025 by Luke Harkness No Comments

The Less Year by C.K. Oldfield book review

Book reviews, Sci-Fi

The Less Year was kindly sent to be by an Instagram follower who said they were partway through the series and really loving it and wanted me to give it a go! It's a story set around a post-apocalyptic world where the world has essentially crumbled and humanity is left a shell of what it once was. Every 20 years or so, a year comes along called a "Less Year" where trade is prohibited and so people must survive in whatever way they can. This article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the product. Our story focuses on…

02Jan 2025 by Luke Harkness 2 Comments

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro book review

Book reviews, Sci-Fi

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is a book I picked up for numerous reasons - the front cover intrigued me, I'd seen it doing the rounds online at some point and it was on my dad's bookshelf so an easy one to pick up - just to name a few. Therefore, I went into it completely blind with no idea what to expect in terms of characters, pacing or plot. I've come out of it with more of an idea but still a little confused. This article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the product. Klara…

14Jul 2024 by Luke Harkness 1 Comment

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir book review

Book reviews, Sci-Fi

Have you ever started the audiobook of a book and within the first fifteen minutes or so you know you’re going to thoroughly enjoy it already because the narrator or bloody awesome and the writing itself lends perfectly to them? Well that was Project Hail Mary for me! Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinion of the product. In fact, I think I only picked up the physical copy of Project Hail Mary once during my time with it became Ray Porter, the audiobook narrator was so perfectly depicting how I wanted the character to…

11Mar 2024 by Luke Harkness No Comments

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin book review

Book reviews, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

N.K. Jemisin is one of those author names that I think a lot of fantasy fans are beginning to really respect. Quite some time ago I did read The Fifth Season, it was before I started this blog so there's no review of it on here but I do remember really enjoying it and being really impressed by it. Please note that this article contains affiliate links. This means if you choose to purchase any products via the links below, I may receive a small comission at no extra cost to you. These affiliate links do not affect my final opinio of the products. Therefore, when I started The City We Became another series by N.K. Jemisin, I thought I would be equally impressed. However, having finished it and feeling…

11Feb 2024 by Luke Harkness 2 Comments

Golden Son by Pierce Brown book review

Book reviews, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Golden Son is the second book in the Red Rising series which tells the story of a young man who belongs to the "Reds" who are the lowest tier of society and his attempts to infiltrate the "Golds" (the top) to then try and overthrow them. If you haven't yet read by review of Red Rising, make sure you read my review of that and then you can continue reading below as I don't want to spoil anything. After the events of the first book, I was hyped, I was pumped and ready for the sequel to take things to another level. I'd heard Golden Son was far superior and when the series was taken to another level. However, I just don't know if I could agree with this. Note…

Category: Sci-Fi