Review: Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
A historical fiction about the 300 Spartans who stood against over 2 million soldiers from the Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. The good Terrific w...
A historical fiction about the 300 Spartans who stood against over 2 million soldiers from the Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. The good Terrific w...
I found the style of this book off-putting (a weird cross of pseudo-spiritual guru + self-help book), but the content is pretty good. I agree with many of the cor...
Interesting premise, the typical John Corey humor, but all of it ruined by a stereotypical monologuing villain. This villain is brilliant, outsmarts the good guys...
For some reason, this is categorized as a business book, has a business book intro, and uses a business book writing style… Even though the content is applicable ...
I’m a bit torn on this one. On the one hand, it involves a real-world mystery (the crash of TWA flight 800), lots of interesting detective work, and the typical J...
Did not finish. I found every character intolerable and while I think the book was trying to be absurdist and humorous, I only found the former, and not the latt...
The good Lots of great characters, especially the ever-amusing John Corey. Fun dialog. Listening to Corey make fun of people is 80% of the reason to read th...
This third book in the series is absolutely packed with wall-to-wall action, barely letting up for even a second. It’s intense, fast-paced, and has all the great ...
A good sequel to The Red: First Light, but it doesn’t quite hit the same high notes as the first book. The action sequences are just as intense, the sci-fi settin...
Peter Clines has a gift for stories that suck you into an intriguing mystery and are almost impossible to put down… Until the mystery is revealed, and he mostly s...