A mini review round-up

Just a couple this morning, but they’re fab.

First of all, our latest title, Mike Shevdon’s hugely entertaining Sixty-One Nails is mentioned over at NotFreeSF. They start off by saying:

What if Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novels were less dull? You might get something like this.

Now, being fans, we don’t agree with this assessment of Gaiman’s work; still – it’s nice to have him used as a yardstick…

Meanwhile, over at Strange Horizons, Slights gets the review treatment (for some reason we missed this when it was posted a few weeks back).

…what first feels like a coming-of-age story ends up being a novel about mass murder, and also, somehow, a novel about a daughter finally letting go of her father after his death…

Slights displays a true knack for style and a highly imaginative vision which I look forward to seeing explored more fully in subsequent work from Kaaron Warren… The horror genre is lucky to have two new writers of such quality and ambition.

(That last bit is a little less confusing when you realise that the reviewer is covering another debut novel by a different writer in the same review).

Have a great Tuesday…