Mathew Bridle profile
Place of birth: Horsham, West Sussex
Now living: Crawley, West Sussex
3 favourite authors
- JRR Tolkien
- HG Wells
- Oscar Wilde
3 favourite books
- The Lord of The Rings
- The Invisible Man
- The Picture of Dorian Grey
3 favourite films
- Young Frankenstein
- The Sixth Sense
- The Shawshank Redemption
Mathew Bridle's 9 reviews
The People of the Black Circle by Robert E Howard (The Conan Chronicles)
Fantasy Masterworks: #8Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age. Coll...
9.0/10
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The year is 2045 and life in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, resembles scenes from every Hollywood sci-fi, dystopian flick you’ve ever seen. Chrome and glass skyscrapers soar into the heavens towering over buildings as grey and miserable as the dystopian, Bladerunner-esque weather. Society is high tech with glowing neon everywhere. Orphaned 18-ye...
9.3/10
The Human Race by OC Heaton
Now here is an unusual book. The author, Mr Heaton, has clearly spent many a long day researching all things Icelandic, American airline history and a great deal of quantum physics relating to the plausibility of teleportation. Then he has taken said research and built a novel around it without killing the story at all. Congratulations are in or...
9.0/10
Zombies vs. Nazis: A Lost History of the Walking Undead by Scott Kenemore (Zen of Zombie)
Zombies vs. Nazis: A Lost History of the Walking Undead (Zen of Zombie) by Scott Kenemore with Illustrations by Adam WallentaI must confess that when I was first asked to review this book I was not that keen as it is not something that I would readily pick up. I had no idea what to expect so when the email arrived (I had a PDF version) I ...
7.0/10
Windchaser by Michael Fraser (The Heartstone Chronicles)
It took my quite some time to get into this book, but I am glad that I kept going. The story begins with a young boy rescued by a wraith which takes him and trains to be a Windchaser: a daemon hunter. Thus Darkmalian is formed. We are then jumped forward to the present day and a world about to be torn apart at the seams.One of the things ...
6.0/10
Geas by Jonathan R Webb
In a backwater province of the Apollonian Empire, a lowly Brother-Priest has a vision. Leaving a garbled message that something malign has escaped back into the world, he goes missing. But why did he not report this to the proper authorities? Why did he steal treasures from the temple mausoleum before leaving? And what of the message he left beh...
8.0/10
The Talisman: Road of Trials by Stephen King
‘Jack had been six when it really started...’So opens our short story. Short? At around 160 pages, yes, all too short and I say this because I enjoyed it way too much.This book is a rare treat; a great story with artwork that more that matches the storytelling. The graphic style is the real storyteller here it reminded ...
9.0/10
Changeling: Blood Wolf by Steve Feasey
The Mission: They’ve broken the evil vampire Caliban’s power base. They thought that it was all over. That’s where they were wrong…Changeling: Blood Wolf is the third in the series and continues to develop the story of Trey Laporte- the last hereditary werewolf. Set in a teenage world where the fifteen year old ha...
8.0/10
Terminator Salvation: Trial by Fire by Timothy Zahn
For those of you who have only watched the Terminator movies this book is where to begin reading the continuing story.Timothy Zahn is one of those writers that could be given any existing science fiction story and take it to places that the original creator could not have imagined. Like he did with Star Wars (Dark Force Rising) Zahn jumps...
8.5/10