Dirt (The Dirt Trilogy) by KF Ridley

I couldn’t carry on, I don’t leave many books unread, but I failed, I felt uncomfortable reading this novel. It felt like a cheap teenage magazine. That’s not my scene.

The characters were not well written and the short, cut sentences, meant there was no depth to the writing.

A simple lesson in show don’t tell, would improve this book.

Jeremy Poole
books@jeremypoole.net



Jeremy Poole

Book review by Jeremy Poole

The Paladin of Tarrthala by Perry Mcdaid

‘Must to work harder’.

This book should have been right up my street, fantasy fiction, swords and sorcerers, just my thing, but it wasn’t.

At one point, within one page the protagonist, chided himself, scolded himself and muttered bitterly. This use of a variety of speech tags red flags the writer as inexperienced and the continual use of tell not show confirmed this fact. The ‘said’ was conspicuous by its absence.

The story itself was just as bad, it didn’t flow and I was completely lost from the first page. The jumps to alternate realities were not the problem, the problem was the writer trying to secretly hide the story and not give too much away, whilst trying to grab the reader, but he failed.

The free chapters I read weren’t enough to make me want to read on.

Sorry Perry, but needs work.

Jeremy Poole

The Zombie axiom (In the time of the dead) by David Monette

5 stars.

A nice twist on my favourite genre, zombies. This book has all of the things I like to make a great read, good, varied and realistic personalities, Good versus bad, lots of gunsmoke and violence. It also drew me from page to page, always wanting to see what becomes of the three main characters, a martial arts expert, a mute and a fat black woman.

The book managed to stay away from the ever increasingly popular, high kicking, perfectly formed, school dropout, teenage Kung Fu expert that falls in love. All the better for it.

The Zombies get a leader and he wants the world, only our intrepid group can stop him. A great fun rollercoaster ride.

Thanks David
Jeremy Poole