Layton Green – The Diabolist

Whoever recommended this book to me: be cursed. First, it made me start with the recent book (well, it was the third one while there actually is a fourth book of the series by now) and not the first of the Dominic Grey Series, and second, I now am hooked. Layton Green’s The Diabolist is […]

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Steven Dunne – The Reaper

With The Reaper I had the first book of Steven Dunne’s DI Brook series on my reading list. Damen Brook is quite a broken character as Detective Inspector. It was published in 2007, and although the idea of the character with personal issues is not new in the world of novel-investigators, the story itself is […]

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Die Steampunk-Chroniken: Mechanische Geister

Als interessierter Geist mache ich gerne mal einen Ausflug in unbekannte literarische Gefilde. Das Steampunk Genre bietet da von der Idee her eine spannende Mischung zwischen Science Ficton und Fantasy und wird in den Retro-Futurismus eingeordnet. Namensgebend ist dabei, dass die Technik dieser Zukunftsalternative vorwiegend dampfgetrieben ist. Ich hatte schon einiges darĂ¼ber gelesen, und mit […]

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