The actual collection for 2019 is similar to the previous in many aspects, but the overall quality is lower and the overall concept is not a winning idea either.
Sean and Corie Weaver (editors): The Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide, Volume 5
Címke: Netgalley
Heather Webb: The Phantom’s Apprentice
When the story of the phantom of the opera was told, both Gaston Leroux and Andrew Lloyd Webber left out many-many details. We don’t know how Christine was hired to the opera, how the phantom discovered her or where did…
Sean and Corie Weaver (editors): The 2018 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide
Great stories around a brilliant idea: sci-fi stories for children. There are future technologies, new planets, aliens, apocalypse, children heroes and clear moral lessons.
Brian Tracy: Million dollar habits
When all the self-help and success-books came together and appear in one book: this one contains everything what you can ever read around.
Piers Paul Read: The Villa Golitsyn
At the beginning the story seems to be a war crime investigation from the imperial period of the British history, when a British gentleman tries to find a secret in France. But it becomes a holiday-love story, where English guys…
John Scalzi: The Dispatcher
A short novel with an interesting base idea, but the story just a conversation-format description of a strangly changed world and a strange profession in it.
Jonathan Stroud: The Creeping Shadow (Lockwood & Co #4)
Fortunately the fourth part is not only about Lucy’s permanent wailing: our main heroine peacefully returns to Lockwood & Co, and they are fighting together against ghosts and evil people as well.
Joe R. Lansdale: Blood and Lemonade (Hap and Leonard #13)
Fifteen new, nostalgic stories about Hap’s childhood and the main social problems in the USA’s in the 60’s.
Sylvain Neuvel: Waking Gods (Themis Files #2)
The second part is like a bridge between the first and the third book: the main story lines are continued, and only some personal issues are finished.
Ryan Aldred: Rum luck
Ben Cooper woke up in a jail in Costa Rica, unconsciously about the latest night, and it appears he bought a bar on the beach, and the previous owner was murdered. Sounds like a good base for a crime, a light story to read during…
Bob Gale, John Barber, Erik Burnham: Back To The Future – Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines
Five chapters, five background stories were added to the legendary movie series with interesting and funny details, mainly about Dr. Emmett Brown.