Lord Samper's Library

I really wasn't feeling great last night (side effect of the new medication) and despite my best efforts, I just couldn't focus on getting any new reviews up on the blog, book or film. In the end, I decided not to push it and just pinch an older review, from back in the day, to use instead. I hope you don't mind ;o)  I never finished the 'Southern Reach' trilogy, despite the three books all being on my shelf at one point, and maybe I need to go back and do something about that (he says, ignoring all the other books in the flat...) In the meantime, have some quick thoughts from way back in 2014 (original review posted Here ). For thirty years, Area X, monitored by the secret agency known as the Southern Reach, has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border– an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. Eleven expeditions have been sent in to investigate; even for those that have made it out alive, there have been t...

I thought I'd switch things up, just a little bit :o) Instead of making the commute to work all about catching up with the Black Library stuff on my 'phone Kindle', I thought I'd treat myself to an hours reading when I got home, last night, after dropping my girls off with their Mum. The flat is always a lot quieter after they go, almost too quiet sometimes, so what better way to drown out the silence than with a hefty dose of gunfire and heroism? Nope, me neither ;o) So that's exactly what I went and did... And it worked. Let me tell you about it. 'The Strong Among Us' - Steve Lyons Page Count: 33 Pages Blackfire Forge is under siege. For seventeen days, faceless warriors have bombarded the walls of the forge, trying to break through its formidable defences and take the facility in the name of their god. Jarrah, a menial in the forge, may not know how to use the weapons that are attacking them, but he knows who built them: he and his fellow workers. For it ...

I’ve said it before but it’s worth saying again, charity shops are the best for book shopping. Charity shops can be full of other peoples junk but they are also full of hidden treasure if you’re patient, or just lucky. You’ve got to take a chance though, pick up that book or comic you’ve never seen before and give it a go, you’ll never know otherwise. Given the price of comics these days, I’ve got to be a little choosy about what I pick up; that’s why I’m happy to give ‘charity shop comic books’ a go, they’re a little kinder on my wallet ;o) That was why I took a chance on ‘Animosity: Year One’ and… One day, for no reason, the Animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They started taking REVENGE. The world is plunged into chaos as the newly-intelligent Animals fight humanity, and simply fight each other, for their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. In the midst of the turmoil is Jesse, an 11-year-old girl, and her dog, Sandor, who is devoted to her and h...

Page Count: 179 Pages As the Great Rift unfolds in the night sky above Terra and daemons walk upon the birth world of mankind, the Primarch Roboute Guilliman returns, heralding a dark new age. During the breaking storm, Cypher and his band of Fallen escape from the most secure prison in the Imperium. Now loose in the Imperial Palace, they are hunted by warriors of the Dark Angels, forces of the Adeptus Custodes, and Imperial Assassins. But what are Cypher’s intentions? Can anything or anyone be trusted? Told from Cypher’s own, unreliable point of view, this tale of truth, lies and secrets sees one of the Imperium’s most mysterious figures make war at its very heart. But what are the true motivations of the Lord of the Fallen? The whole point of the Warhammer 40K setting, at least from where I’m sat, is that nothing changes. On the one level, it can’t because if it does, Games Workshop suddenly has no product to sell ;o) My cynicism to one side though… The Imperium has stagnated, ov...