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James Goss's Doctor Who - The Blood Cell Review

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What Caught My Attention - Oh. This. Cover. It just looks so promising! I bought this  thinking it would be absolutely amazing, with stunning descriptions, mind visuals and story line. But was it? I mean look  at it. Can you honestly judge a book by its cover? Let's find out...           I needed to give this book a try. And did I try.  I knew when opening this novel, that the Twelfth Doctor would be featured. I loved the Twelfth Doctor. and I knew they would never  accept a book from a writer that couldn't capture Peter Capaldi without him not feeling like The Doctor.           First off, this book is in first person. And you're not  playing as The Doctor. Or Clara for that matter. You're playing as The Warden of a prison who likes to go by the title 'Sir.' This prison holds the worst of the worst in the galaxy. It's isolated, it's cold, it's painted only gray for the "moral" of the prisoners. And everyon...

Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! Review

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What Caught My Attention -      At first I didn't know how I would feel about reading a book redundantly labeled, Guards! Guards! The cover was plain green, yellow and has a strange illustrated small dragon on the cover (NEVER judge a book by it's cover, never) . This book was loaned to me by a co-worker of mine, Rob. He informed me to read the dedication page before I started to read the entire book, because it would give me a feel of Terry Pratchett's humor.                   It did. Why I Continued Reading -       When I first started reading this novel, I read it with a tone of seriousness. Little did I understand, the small joke in the dedication page, was the humor throughout the book. The reason I didn't take the beginning so seriously for the rest of the book is because, our novel, Zathena and the Sky Pirates had an underlying tone of humor, yet it was very serious...