Nick Taraborrelli profile
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Now living: Southern New Jersey
3 favourite authors
- Gene Wolfe
- Tad Williams
- Janny Wurts
3 favourite books
- Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
- A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
3 favourite films
- Jaws
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Nick Taraborrelli's 6 reviews
Mage's Blood by David Hair (Moontide Quartet)
Sometimes I read a book that everyone else seems to love and for some reason it just doesn’t resonate with me. Then I wonder, “Is it just me?” or “Did I miss something?” David Hair’s Moontide series is one that I kept hearing amazing things about. Hair is a New Zealand author, one of many up and coming talente...
6.0/10
Very Important Corpses by Simon R Green (Ishmael Jones)
There are times when I just want to read something that is not too complicated or involved. I found myself in that situation after reading and reviewing a few heavy books recently. With that in mind, I took to NetGalley to find a title that had the potential to be fun, light, and just pure escapism without my having to remember 50 characters&rsq...
7.5/10
Children of the Different by SC Flynn
So many Young Adult fantasy novels talk down to their audience. It is part of the reason why I don’t read much of it frankly. While I understand that I am not the target readership for these books, at the same time it is pretty easy to see when a writer feels the need to soft-pedal the content of the story because they believe that teenage...
8.5/10
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
So many fantasy books these days follow the same formulaic themes, plot, and character tropes that it is easy to get cynical when a new book comes along claiming to be something totally different and fresh. I simply cannot count the number of times I have cracked open a book advertised as “not your typical fantasy” and then after 100...
8.3/10
Gilded Cage by Vic James (The Dark Gifts Trilogy)
Gilded Cage is the first book in The Dark Gifts Trilogy. It has an intriguing premise, where the UK has been split into two, with a very rich and privileged minority ruling the country, this minority are quite archaic in nature and are known as Equals (or those with Skill). The rest of the population, those without Skill, live quite similarly to...
9.2/10
Journey to the Black City by Keith Mueller
On a far-future earth, the population of the world has been divided into various free tribes and city-states in and around the area of what would now be considered the Pacific Northwest and California. Those who inhabit these areas are the survivors of a great cataclysm which occurred two thousand years earlier when huge glaciers began encroachi...
7.5/10