Books by James Lovegrove
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review 1: So let me get this out of the way: yes, Age of Ra has a somewhat unoriginal premise. Gods and mortals, all that, but the wrinkle it brings is refreshing. A world where a particular pantheon of gods, in this case the Egyptians, have taken over the world and forced it into endless ...
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review 1: Started off great. Thought it was going to be a bit cheesy just from the premise. But the characters came alive right from the get go which made the premise exciting. Sadly, about 300 pages in things fell apart and it became more of a templated Hollywood action flick with a cool ...
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review 1: I love a book with an imaginative hook. In this one former soldiers are recruited for mercenary work only the boss is Odin and the location is Asgard. The Norse gods are about to go to war with forces led by the trickster god Loki. Thor, Freya, Heimdall and the other gods show up...
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review 1: Another excellent novel in Lovegrove's Pantheon series - it's the 20th century and the Aztec Empire has conquered the world with the help of advance technology. They are all powerful, even able to control the environment on a planetary scale. In a tropical Britain the reader is...
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review 1: Another great read from one of today's best authors. Lovegroves' ability to fuse alternative history with fantasy and a touch of sci-fi makes him one if the most interesting authors in recent years. As with the whole Age of ... series, this book contains a captivating plot with c...
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review 1: This was a steampunk novel (not a very good one) that merely used the names (and supposedly characters) of Sherlock Holmes, Dr John Watson, Professor Moriarty, Inspector Lestrade et.al. It had not a single redeeming feature that might make this novel re-readable. Although Titan B...
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review 1: Future where vampires are a reality not a myth. They have been either thrown out of their countries or have been placed in designated safe areas. Redlaw is a member of SHADE, basically a group of cops who keep vamps in their "ghettos" and humans out of those same places. The vamp...
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review 1: I wanted to like this book. I love mythology, sci-fi, fantasy and dystopian futures. This should have been right up my alley.Somehow the Egyptian Gods now rule supreme. All other religions/Gods have been destroyed. David Westwynter is a soldier fighting for the Gods he believ...
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review 1: I loved this book! It had the right level of action, romance and humor that left me hungry for more. There were many words and sayings that I never heard before in this book, so it was annoying at times when I had to pause the book and look up the words in the dictionary but now ...
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review 1: I think I liked the idea better than the actual story. I felt a lot of the book was predictable, and I'm not talking about the mythology aspects. I will say the author put some serious effort into modernizing the old Norse mythology, which I enjoyed. Over all it was a decent book...
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review 1: This book is more suited for comic book fans with the style of writing and description of action sequences. There are some glaring inaccuracies like mentioning Buddha as an Avatar of Lord Vishnu and putting in names of Prahlada and Durga where demons are mentioned. The first pers...