Lord Samper's Library

  Page Count: 270 Pages As a kid, I used to be scared of flies (especially the big fat bluebottles) but that was a long time ago now. It took a little longer with bees but I got stung a few times and that pretty much got it out of my system. Wasps though… I fear and hate them in equal measure; angry, vicious grudge-bearing little bastards that seem to exist purely to make your summer miserable. And it has been a long, hot summer… :o( In the (slightly altered) words of Kyle Reese, "They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!" So when I heard that there was a new horror novel that was all about wasps… Of course I had to read it ;o) Jaws with wasps. By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of course, she doesn’t know this yet. All Scarlett knows is her mom finally ...

This will be a quick post today, mostly because of work but also… Well, you’ll see 😉 If you were frequenting these parts, around June last year, you would have seen me having the absolute best time reading Brian O’Gorman’s ‘Spiders’ trilogy (reviews Here , Here and Here ), followed up by ‘The Water’ , a horrifying piece of alien invasion/zombie fiction. And as quickly as that, I was a fan and looking out for anything else by O’Gorman. There are a few of his books that I still need to read but the one I had my eye open for was ‘The Smog’ and a couple of weeks ago, I was finally able to pop a copy onto my Kindle. Kindle reading is usually reserved for the bus ride home (as I have a habit of finishing my paperback read over lunch) and that’s just what I did with ‘The Smog’ over a couple of bus rides. Let me tell you about it. Welcome to the town of Gorton. This is a town low on excitement and high on hard work and doing your bit for the community. Many people in Gorton work at Meado...