James Grimsby

About James Grimsby

James Grimsby is a creative writing major living in the UK, taking time to dabble in animation. He has an interest in the stranger things in life from horror to fantasy and has self-published a few short films online.

Review: Lazarus by Roderick Wood

Review: Lazarus by Roderick Wood

Lazarus is the autobiography of Roderick Wood, a fairly typical Englishman spurred into committing his life story to paper after a sudden heart attack in February 2014. This random tragedy had caused him to be declared medically dead for 27 minutes before a successful resuscitation. Following a several-month recovery period from which his family was told he may never function normally again, he defied expectation and found himself back on his feet and full of old memories and new ideas, “activated … from way back”. Both as part of his recovery process, as well as reignited by his experience, the […]

2019-02-11T09:23:23+02:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Ephialtes by Gavin E. Parker ★★★★

Ephialtes by Gavin E. ParkerIn the middle of the 23rd Century, the foremost military power of Earth – the United States and Nations or “USAN” – has drawn conclusion to World War IV. In the wake of victory, there are events occurring on the single human colony of Mars: there are motions in the small colony for a claim to secede. The move comes at critical time of resumed elections on Earth. Pressure to control the situation escalates circumstances quickly, the Secretary of Defense, Audrey Andrews, moves the president to send their new flagships Otus and Ephialtes to the colony as a show of […]

2015-09-30T06:03:24+02:00September 7th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: Nuclear Affairs by J. Albert Griffiths ★★★★

Nuclear Affairs by J. Albert GriffithsSet in 1952, Nuclear Affairs is the debut novel of author J. Albert Griffiths that explores the new and terrifying world of early post-nuclear global politics. As the US military struggles to understand and manage its own nuclear research in the first decade of the Cold War, the newly-formed United States Air Force bears numerous burgeoning roles in its struggle for legitimacy.

We follow the stories of several lives caught up in the numerous changes in the national, international, and American household status quo, including young recruits, aging veterans, housewives, and secret agents, and stumble upon a conspiracy that […]

2024-07-30T15:37:22+02:00September 4th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Birth of an Assassin by Rik Stone ★★★★★

Birth of an Assassin by Rik StoneThe first book of the Birth of an Assassin series is set on the backdrop of post-war, Soviet Russia. In Moscow, 1947, young Jez Kornfeld, a Jewish citizen, enlists in a military recruitment drive to fulfill his starry-eyed ideals of what it is to be a soldier.

What Jez doesn’t predict is that he has enlisted in something far more sinister than the regular corps. When a sinister KGB operative takes special notice of young Jez he makes a decision that pulls the youth into a hideous world of murder and intrigue that he never dreamed of. It soon becomes […]

2015-09-04T08:18:01+02:00September 4th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |

Review: A Stalker’s Journey by John C. Lukegord ★★★

A Stalker’s Journey by John C. LukegordContent warning for violence, drug abuse, and sexual abuse, including that of minors.

In Iowa, 1983, when Curtis Ware is driven off the road while escaping from the scene of a drug theft, he is hospitalized for horrific injuries and charged for his crimes based on traumatized, rage-filled, drug-induced testimonies. Released after a single harrowing year in a correctional facility, he quickly grows an impressive rap sheet before moving east, to the quiet Riverside, Maine in 1990.

As the papers begin to report a surprising crime wave for the small town, first with robbery from an unmarked taxi, then with […]

2015-09-10T07:46:00+02:00August 18th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: Shadows of Us by L. N. Nino ★★★★

Shadows of Us: A Novel by L. N. NinoIn the gated community of the financial elite that makes up the Commonwealth of Richford Isles, William Schoenhausen, a naïve teenage heir to the Bernhard Schoenhausen fortune and legacy, begins a new term at the prestigious Richtown University. Looking for a way to show himself as worthy, mostly through a cunning scheme of odds and academic adulation, his easy-street plans are quashed when the school’s most popular girl, Julia Rechstaadt, happens to enrol in the school’s least popular course, an enrollment chosen as key part of Will’s scheme of flattery.

When every boy with intentions on Julia follows in their […]

2015-09-03T11:10:56+02:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: The Haunted Trail: The War of the Dublin Woods by John C. Lukegord ★★★

The Haunted Trail: The war of the Dublin Woods by John C. LukegordFollowing the reign of terror that was McRandle, killer of the Dublin docks, horror strikes the Irish town once more. In the year of 1892 the woods of Dublin become host to a brutal murder of a budding couple who dare enter it. Ignoring local superstitions, the two trespass into cursed land, and discover the truth behind the dreaded place, at the expense of their lives at the hands of the escaped lunatics of the local asylum.

Concurrently, after outwitting McRandle, Mick Patrician has made it his life purpose to destroy and remove the evil that lurks in the Woods. […]

2015-08-24T02:58:19+02:00August 4th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: A Draemorian Chronicle: The Western World (Fated Book 1) by Sebastien Leonard ★★★★

A Draemorian Chronicle: The Western World (Fated Book 1) by Sebastien Leonard In the beginning, there was a tribe of nomads that took only what they needed and lived as one with the world. As time grew, the tribe became the tribes, and the tribes’ three wisest argued the nature of things: one argued light was the true creator, one argued dark, and one argued both were unreasonable and would only believe in what could be proved. They split the tribes into factions and distanced each other to far corners, leaving the undecided to rot in the fields.

To each group of believers, something new emerged: light earned the dominance of angels, […]

2015-07-27T08:32:29+02:00July 27th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |
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