Books

Based on the books by Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time is the latest in a long line of big budget epic fantasy series to come to the streaming platforms.  With the whole first season now available on Amazon, we thought we’d take a look at how it was going.  *Warning! Spoilers Ahead!*
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Strange Planet is a collection of cartoons by artist Nathan W Pyle that pokes fun at aspects of human life through the eyes of blue aliens called Beings. Over the …
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After last week’s little burst of action, we get some fudging in Foundation’s season finale, with episode 10: ‘The Leap’.  *Warning! Spoilers Ahead!*
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It seems a shame that Foundation has managed to show flashes of brilliance, but can’t consistently keep that level of interest throughout.  Episode 9, ‘The First Crisis’ is one of those that has quite a lot of successful moving parts, amongst a sea of episodes with empty grandstanding.  *Warning! Some Spoilers Ahead!*
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In many ways episode 8 of Foundation, The Missing Piece, is a tale of people going round in circles.  This is partly positive and, in another case, very much not.  *Warning! Spoilers Ahead!*
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Things are beginning to move now in Foundation with episode 7, ‘Mysteries and Martyrs’, and it feels a much more dynamic show than before. Warning! Some Spoilers Ahead!
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Foundation has a lot of moving parts to deal with and it now seems to be finding a way that works, with Ep6, ‘Death and the Maiden’.
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It’s been an uneven and rocky start to this first series of Foundation, which was recently picked up for a second.  Episode 5, ‘Upon Awakening’ has a double meaning, as it flicks back to Gaal’s life before Hari, and also looks at her fresh awakening from stasis.  *Warning! Some Spoilers Ahead!*
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After a pretty lacklustre outing last week, Foundation gains a bit of pace with episode 4, ‘Barbarians at the Gate’.  It also manages to stay roughly in one time period for a whole show.
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After last week’s double episode containing some big action sequences, Foundation becomes a lot more sedate with ‘The Mathematician’s Ghost’.  *Warning! Spoilers Ahead!*
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A Season of Sinister Dreams (2021) by Tracy Banghart follows two young women, Evra and Annalise, whose lives become irrevocably intertwined when the crown prince disappears. Told in first-person present …
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All That Glitters (formerly published as Enchantée) was one of my favorite reads of 2019. The story followed Camille Durbonne, an orphan who worked magic to change nails into coins …
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