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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews A Whisper of Southern Lights by Tim Lebbon

Posted on 2016-05-11 at 2:49 by angelablackwell
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Review of A Whisper of Southern Lights: The Assassin Series Book 2 by Tim Lebbon

This volume revisits Gabriel’s fight against Temple the demon which we saw in a previous novella (Pieces of Hate). Now time has passed so the two are enduring World War II and are in the Pacific theater.

A soldier who had encountered Temple leaves a message behind and tells his best mate where to find it. Gabriel searches for this soldier in the Japanese prison camps and eventually finds him. This leads to a harrowing race

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Last Witness by K.J. Parker

Posted on 2015-10-06 at 14:54 by angelablackwell

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Review of The Last Witness by K.J. Parker (Tor.com October 6, 2015)

This is a first person point-of-view story about a man who can look into people’s heads and remove memories. He feels and remembers all the things he removes, and thus has many unpleasant experiences stored in his head, because those are the most common type of memory that people want to lose. Some people also want no one to know their secrets and they trust the memory-yanking man more than they do their associates. This type of work

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