Lewis King profile
Place of birth: Northampton
Now living: Harrogate
3 favourite authors
- Roger Zelazny
- Robert Jordan
- Steven Erikson
3 favourite books
- ASH: A Secret History, by Mary Gentle
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
- Chronicles of Amber (10 book series of Amber) by Roger Zelazny
3 favourite films
- Hero (Jet Li, Tony Leung)
- Castle In The Sky - Miyagashi
- Lord of the Rings - Extended Cut
Lewis King's 5 reviews
The Second Ship by Richard Phillips (The Rho Agenda)
I'd been looking for something fun to read for a while, the occasional stand-alone fantasy novel, the odd steampunk book here and there. I fancied something a little more science fiction orientated. After browsing Amazon for a while, I came upon this trilogy, good reviews 4 stars out of 187 reviews, plus it sounded like fun. I also loved the...
8.5/10
Brilliance by Marcus Sakey
In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called “Brilliants”.A small portion of the world's population ar...
7.5/10
On Basilisk Station by David Weber (Honorverse)
“Having made her superior look like a fool, she’s been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace, there she meets her past and is set up for ruin. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship’s humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide...
8.0/10
Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn (Star Wars : Darth Bane)
This is the first of all the Star Wars books I've ever read, mostly because I have the problematic desire of starting any series of books at the very beginning and with this book, you can hardly get any earlier. They begin 1003-1000 years BBY (before Battle of Yavin). The book chronicles the origins of the Sith as we have seen in the movies ...
7.0/10
Talion: Revenant by Michael A Stackpole
A stand-alone novel, this could have quite easily fit into a much grander series of books, reminiscent of Eddings or Feist. Though, by itself it is a wonderful book and really is great fantasy fiction. Talions are the guardians of the realm, they exist to provide military aid or prevention but are autonomous in their power, no single government ...
8.5/10