Lee's Book Reviews

Would this latest interpretation be as bleak and spare as Radburn’s original text, and as richly nuanced?

Wherein I cannot manage to write in-depth reviews for all the fabulous books on my device, or on my nightstand, but I want to feed as man...

Wherein I cannot manage to write in-depth reviews for all the fabulous books on my device, or on my nightstand, but I want to feed as man...

Wherein I hope that bunching together these paltry short reviews will look like the real thing because getting through my to-be-read lis...

A blogpost about some of the fabulous reads I’ve enjoyed over the summer break. As it turns out, my 2018-2019 summer reading comprised mo...

Mini-reviews by Lee Murray. Wherein I cannot manage to write in-depth reviews for all the fabulous books on my device, but I want to feed...

I love stories set in the Roman era particularly those which provide insights into the tribal and cultural aspects, mythology, and social...

Wherein Lee Murray tries to review a small portion of the stack of fabulous books she has read lately. Today’s instalment includes Volcan...

A selection of mini-reviews. The reflections below are of titles on my bedside table recently ‒ some of which have been waiting for my at...

I'm behind on my reading again, so here are some more quick-fire reviews of titles I've read recently. Bitter Suites is the newest short ...

I met UK writer Marie O’Regan at a conference last year. Her name wasn’t new to me: in dark fiction circles she’s well known for being a ...

To accompany my mini-review of JL Gribble's Steel Time, the fourth instalment in her fabulous Steel Empire series (RDSP), I'm delighted t...

Like most writers, reading is possibly my favourite thing (after cheese) and because of that my iPad and my bedside table have so many bo...

Helen and the Go-go Ninjas is a speculative graphic novel by collaborative team Ant Sang and Michael Bennett. It’s an action-packed graph...

Today I welcome Delphine Boswell, who I had the pleasure of meeting at last year’s StokerCon conference at the iconic Queen Mary, Long Be...

Jeff Strand, the author of horror titles Blister and Cyclops Road, said recently, “Packing is 60% putting things into boxes and 40% going...

As a kid, when people asked what my favourite animal was, assuming they weren’t talking about the domestic variety, I’d always say a peng...

It’s no secret I’m a big fan of supernatural crime-noir stories, or the quirky cross-genre offerings of the Dog Star imprint, so picking ...

Congregations of the Dead by James A Moore and Charles Rutledge is part Jack Reacher thriller, part episode of Supernatural. Explosive, c...

For those among us who love a dark and twisted story, but aren’t so keen on gluts of blood and viscera, World Horror Master Michael Colli...