Rating: WARTY! This sounded great from the description, but about halfway through, it turned into one of those pathetic little horror ...

Rating: WORTHY! This was a rare worthy read. The story has been done before, but this take on it was an unusual one in my experience....

Rating: WARTY! Published in 1990, for me this was the weakest book in the quadrilogy so far (I have one more volume still to read). Fr...

Rating: WORTHY! This was first published in 1986 as The Shadow in the Plate and is set six years after the previous volume The Ruby in...

Rating: WORTHY! Published in 1985, and set in Victorian times, 1872, this is the first of a quadrilogy, three-quarters of which I enjoy...

Rating: WARTY! Elmore John Leonard Jr (which was misspelled on the CDs!) has been hailed, at least in his later years, as a great write...

Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Written by James Robinson, this was an unusual and...

Rating: WARTY! This novel sounded from the blurb a lot better than it turned out to be in the oratory, and John Bedford Lloyd's rea...

Rating: WARTY! This was an audiobook that almost made it under the wire, but the more of this review I wrote the worse it seemed to me!...

Rating: WARTY! Read okay by Emily Janice Card, the problem with this 'Da Vinci Code' wannabe audiobook was that it was, once ag...

Rating: WARTY! I think this novel may have been misrepresented, because the smaller name on the cover did most of the writing, but that...

Rating: WARTY! If I had known this was volume one of the 'Earthend Saga', I would never have picked it up. I don't do saga...

Rating: WORTHY! This was an interesting novel, and the start of a series which I'm not sure I want to follow even though I liked th...

Rating: WORTHY! This was a very short audiobook I picked up on spec from the library and it turned out, aside from a couple of dumb bit...

Rating: WARTY! This is my first and probably my last Steve Martini novel. Am I sure it wasn't Steve Martin and not Martini? No! ...

Rating: WARTY! Please note that this was an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. The Kindle app version was pretty cra...

Rating: WORTHY! Note that this was an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I enjoyed this novel very much. Normally I...

Rating: WARTY! Note that this was an advance review copy from Net Galley, for which I thank the publisher. I'm not sure I agree wit...

Rating: WARTY! My attempt to get through all fourteen (or whatever it is) of the Kris Longknife (aka Mary Sue) series this year, contin...

Rating: WORTHY! Well I have posted fifteen reviews today. That's a personal record for me and a warning never to get so far behind...