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Savage Headhunters Book Review

Savage Headhunters Book Review

Savage Headhunters by J. Manfred Weichsel may be his most horrible book yet. Given that previous books have involved cross-breeding humans and chimpanzees, angels lusting after human women, and the sexual perversity of Hollywood, this is quite an accomplishment. The target of Weichsel's satire in Savage Headhunters is war. In

The Alchemy of Treason: The Lost Book 5

The Alchemy of Treason: The Lost Book 5

In the land of ice and monsters, there is nothing mundane about treachery. Eternal consequences flow from mundane actions.

Never Shall I Fail: Forgotten Ruin Book 7

Never Shall I Fail: Forgotten Ruin Book 7

Just in case you didn’t get enough of Rangers battling for control of Sustagul in the last book, Never Shall I Fail chronicles the second battle of Sustagul. But this time, we see things in a different way, insofar as Talker has to learn to see things in a different way.

A Vital Breath Book Review

The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air. —Haunted Houses, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A With Both Hands Mini-Review Paxton Locke is back, not much older, but hopefully much wiser than

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry

A With Both Hands Mini-Review The initial Joe Ledger novel stuck out to me in 2009 as an interesting combination of Islamic millennialism and the zombie genre. Fourteen years later, one of the most interesting theories I have come across for why shambling hordes took over popular entertainment in the

Splitting out literary criticism and book reviews

As I reflect upon what it is I do here at With Both Hands, I’ve decided to make a stronger distinction between criticism and reviews. Writing book criticism is something I love to do, and intend to continue doing, but it can also take a while to find the

Operation Kronstadt Book Review

Harry Ferguson’s Operation Kronstadt [Amazon link] filled in a gap in a time (1919-20) and a place (St. Petersburg) that I had known nearly nothing about. The book starts slow, and then builds and builds up to a genuinely thrilling climax. For events now more than a hundred years