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(Sortof) Book Review: Demonhunters Handbook (Swedish book, English review)
Demonjägarens Handbok, or Demonhunters Handbook in English, is a Swedish book that has not reached international publication. This is not a novel, but it’s not really a children’s book either. It’s...
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The Torch Spotlights: Hood – An Action Noir Graphic Novel
You’re familiar with the Robin Hood stories right? He returns from fighting in the Crusades to find that his home is under the thumb of the Sheriff of Nottingham. He robs from the rich and gives to...
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Book Reviews: Close Up On Death by Maureen O’Brien
Today we’ll be talking about a murder mystery set in that London Town. ‘Close Up on Death” was written by Maureen O’Brien and was a part of the Arcturus Crime Classics collection. A collection of...
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Book Review: Poe – A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd.
This is a biography of legendary American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It begins with his death detailing the strange circumstances surrounding it. Ackroyd follows Poe’s steps and actions during his trip to...
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BFMY: Remember Me By Christopher Pike
After the Bluford Series (Yes, I will be getting back to that next month), I was in a different place, a different school and even a different country. I marked this time as my Pike/Rees years, when I...
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BFMY: The Best vs The Worst: Nobody True by James Herbert
So we have come to up to date, there are tons of other books series that I haven’t touched on but I would really rather get this out of the way since it is going to open the flood gates that I won’t …...
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BFMY: Bluford Retrospective Next 5
After a long break from the series I’m back with the next five in the series. The Fallen by Paul Langan In this sequel to ‘Brothers in Arms’, we follow Martin Luna as he sits in a schoool hearing close...
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The Jester (A Riyria Chronicles Tale) by Michael J Sullivan
What can I say about Riyria? Well for starters they are 100% complete and utter win. Okay, maybe I can’t say that for sure since I only just started reading, Theft of Swards; the first Volume in the...
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A Horror Fan’s View on H.P Lovecraft’s ‘At The Mountain of Madness’ and ‘The...
Let me start by saying I’m not an avid H.P.Lovecraft fan. In fact the only reason why I started looking into the work of Lovecraft is because my other half is a huge Lovecraftian Fanboy. Personally, I...
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BFMY: THE WORST: Once by James Herbert
Once, until recently, was the worse book I have ever read. Oh, that book was just taken over by a certain novel I might get to in due time. Once isn’t the newest story in the world. In fact, Once …...
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The End Of MacKayla’s Story: Shadowfever by Karen Moning
Mackayla Lane has been on the journey of a life time, from loosing her sister, to travelling to Dublin in search for Alina’s killer, she had no idea her life would become what it is now. When she begun...
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The Origin of Sex by Faramerz Dabhoiwala
Sex, do you remember when it was stigma to talk about sex openly? Do you remember when sex out of marriage was not socially acceptable? Oh have the times changed. It makes you wonder if our modern...
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Jack Caffrey in Poppet by Mo Hayder
Mental asylums have long been my favourite setting for a good horror novel. There’s just something about total insanity and the fact that you can’t trust your own senses that makes it that much...
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‘Left To Tell’ An Amazing Story of A Girl Surviving The Rwandan Genocide.
Saturday April 6th marks the 19th anniversary of the tragic events of the Rwandan Genocide. In 1994 the African country was hit with rapid violence that broke out between two Rwandan Tribes, the Hutu...
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Books From My Youth: Goosebumps
Horror is my favourite genre in everything, books, movies and television. I don’t know what it is but there is something about being scared that just appeals to me. My mom is also a horror fan, we even...
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Book Review: The Dirty Girls Book Club by Savanna Fox
‘The Dirty Girls Book Club’ written by Savanna Fox tells the story of 25 year old widow Georgia Malone, a Marketing Executive who is a part of a book club. Her life is turned upside down when she...
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Books from My Youth: Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids
Goosebumps was not the only kids horror series I encountered during my youth. There was a series that actually gave me nightmares. Oh my Great Britain really do not like their children. Grizzly Tales...
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Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
There is a man out there, you don’t know him. You’ve probably met him once, but you still wouldn’t know he exists. He is a man who oozes charm and confidence. He could talk his way into congress if he...
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Books From My Youth: Animorphs
I’m starting to see a little pattern here. A lot of the books that I read in my youth became TV programmes in the 90s, much like books that were publish in the early 2000s beings adapted to the big …...
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What Rhymes With Bastard? By Linda Robertson
What does rhyme with bastard? Astard, Castard, Dastard? Maybe Mastered, or Plastered? What rhymes with bastard, is the hilarious true story of Linda Robertson’s past relationship, when her partner Jack...
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Bridget Jones New Book Revealed.
Bridget Jones is coming back to our bookshelves with a new book this Autumn. Helen Fielding, author of the Bridget Jones series confirmed the date and title of the book today ( May 28th 2013) and...
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Limits of Power by Elizabeth Moon
Fantasy Author Elizabeth Moon returns to her Paladin’s Legacy series with the fourth installment: Limits of Power. The Background The Paladin’s Legacy is the latest series in the Deed of Paksenarrion...
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Books From My Youth Special: Bluford Series Retrospective Introduction
There is a series that has stayed with me through the years, it came at a time when everything in my life was changing. 2002, the world was still healing after the events of the year before, and I just...
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Books From My Youth Special: Bluford Series Retrospective First Five Part 1
Phew, this is going to be a long one. This is also going to be Spoiler Heavy if you don’t want the books to be ruined for you: STOP HERE! GO AND READ THE BOOKS THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE! … Continue...
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Books From My Youth Special: Bluford Retrospective Part 2: Compare and Contrast
While reading these five books I’m surprised how much I enjoyed all of them after all these years. The stories are timeless and the characters are likable (but we’ll get to them later). What you’ll...
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BFMY Special: Bluford Series Retrospective Part 3: Second Five.
The Second Five are : The Gun/Paycheck by Paul Langan A direct sequel to ‘The Bully’ is told from the point of view of bully Tyray Hobbs, taking place 3 days after the ending of the last book Tyray...
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BFMY Special: Bluford Series Retrospective Part 4: Change
The Second Five, just like the first had a common theme, while those were about common story lines running along side each other as a way to emphasis the main story, for these five it was Change. ‘The...
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Fight Club Gets A Sequel
The famous Fight Club is in the works to come back to our shelves as a Graphic Novel. According to Rolling Stones magazine, Fight Club Author Chuck Palahniuk made the announcement about the sequel at...
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BFMY Special: Bluford Series Retrospective – Meet The Author
The Bluford Series has touched many lives from the teens of 2002. We all love Bluford. Its characters and the stories immerse us in the lives of the students of Bluford High School. We have to be very...
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Fifty Shades of Grey Author Is Richest Writer Says Forbes and Stephanie Meyer...
E.L. James, author of Fifty Shades of Grey, has topped the literary books lists of highest earning authors with the sales from her book trilogy Fifty Shades. The British author earned an amazing $95...
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The Torch Book Spotlight: Virgil
Another week under the spotlight and we’ve found an amazing Kickstarter project. Virgil is a graphic novel that tells the story of a gay Jamaican police officer ( the title character) who, along with...
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BFMY: Anita Blake – An R-rated Buffy
I managed to turn quite a few heads when I was at the local book store and asked for the current 4 sequels of the Anita Blake series that was out at that time, but I didn’t see any reason … Continue...
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BFMY: Bluford Retro Continues: Darcy Wills
I feel I should explain myself on my dislike of the character of Darcy Wills. I assure you it has nothing to do with the writing nor the situations the character is placed in. The writing is always...
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Top Ten Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids Part 1
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome kids is a book series created by Jamie Rix in 1990. In 2000 Grizzly Tales was adapted to UK TV and was picked up by TV station ITV, in 2011 the show was revamped and shown …...
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Top Ten Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids Part 2
5. ‘ An Elephant Never Forgets’ This is one of the first episodes I watched after reading the book, it basically looks at the rich and how parents who don’t care about teaching their children...
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A Very Scary Story: Harold
There are a lot of stories, that float around during Halloween, some aren’t very scary, others urban Legends you’ve heard a Million times so they lose their scare, Here is a story for you to get really...
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The Mammoth Book of Horror: The Black Cat & The Monster of Dread End
Halloween is upon us and is one of my favourite holidays, apart from Christmas and Easter, for obvious reasons. Although I don’t find a lot of things scary any more, what still gets me is disturbing...
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Metro 2033 and Dmitrij Gluchovskij’s way with words
This review will be a bit different. I’m not as fast a reader as Kennie, I’m the kind of person that reads a book in three or four months. I have not yet completed Metro 2033, so this will not …...
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Book Review: The Riyria Revelations by Michael J Sullivan.
Finally, finally finished with this epic. It has been a very extensive fete finishing a 6 book trilogy in a month and a half, but it’s finished. Originally, I was not going to do a traditional review...
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Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company by Homer Hickam
Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company is not a book you can read on its own. There are two other books in the series, making this the third and it shows. Unfortunately I have not been able to...
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Book Review: Birdman by Mo Hayder
Back of the book reviewer comments. They are very common in the literary world. Little comments from reviewers about a book that appear on publisher websites, on the back of the book or on the first...
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Seven Kinds of Hell by Dana Cameron
Young archaeologist, Zoe Miller, seems to be having a run of real bad luck lately. In the months after her mother’s death, she discovers she belongs to a race beings called Fangborns. Werewolves,...
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Book Review: The Treatment by Mo Hayder
The Treatment is the second book in the DI Jack Caffery series. Written in 2001, this book covered a very disturbing subject matter. The plot follows Caffery as he races to find an abducted child after...
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Book Review: Monstrous by Sean Platt and David Wright
Monstrous by Sean Platt and David Wright is a book that has good points. Its premise is one of my favourites, what happens after death. Henry Black just died. He and his family were attacked in their...
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Stories From My Youth: Jamaican Ghost Stories – Ol’ Hige
I swear my uncle was a master story teller. When I visited his house, every night he would have a strange new tale to tell. My cousins and I would gather around him after dinner, pull the blankets...
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BLB Book Review: Storm Siren by Mary Weber
Within the war-torn Kingdom of Faelen, it seems hope of surviving is becoming less and less every day. However, salvation comes to its people in the form of seventeen year old, Nymia, a slave with a...
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Book Review: The Bone Factory by Nate Keayon
The Bone Factory is the most immersive reading experience I have come across recently. Its story is pulls you in completely from start to finish. I enjoyed it immensely. It begins with blood shed...
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#1: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
In this first of a series, I look at the first books in a series and tell you whether are not they are worth your time. This week it’s that awesome Sci-fi comedy that takes you into the depth of...
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The Torch Entertainment Book News
Simon & Schuster’s Weekly Ebook Deal. Here is this week’s Simon & Schuster Ebook Deal Alys Always by Harriet Lane $1.99 Story Summary: On a bitter winter’s night, Frances Thorpe comes upon the...
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MCM Midlands: A Stroll around Comic Book Village!
Comic Con came to the little town of Telford England on Saturday. Cosplayers, Universal trailers, and watching as Will and Chris went crazy over the cast of Red Dwarf, which no doubt was awesome, I...
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