Sign up for our newsletters to receive our Best of 2024 ezine!

Reviews by Wayne Taylor

Order Reviews by:
A Gathering of Spies
by John Altman
A Gathering of Spies (9/20/2022)
With the greatest respect and understanding the enormous effort expended by Mr Altman to assemble his first thriller I must disagree with other effusive, barely literate reviews and state, sadly, this derivative book is a load of nonsense. Maybe, maybe accompanied by a bottle of scotch and orange scented happy baccy an occasional reader could find humour (as, say, Ben Macintyre achieves) or authenticity (John Le Carre) but here there is no finneessee (sic), just a pedestrian tumult of cliches I thought must have been translated by someone with an abridged English as a second language dictionary from Swahili.
Sorry. If I mistakenly took this tome to a desert island I’d swim out to beg a passing shark to serrate me. Sir, don’t give up your day job.
  • Page
  • 1

Top Picks

  • Book Jacket: The God of the Woods
    The God of the Woods
    by Liz Moore
    Bestselling author Liz Moore's latest novel, The God of the Woods, begins with a disappearance. ...
  • Book Jacket: Becoming Madam Secretary
    Becoming Madam Secretary
    by Stephanie Dray
    Our First Impressions reviewers enjoyed reading about Frances Perkins, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's ...
  • Book Jacket: Everything We Never Had
    Everything We Never Had
    by Randy Ribay
    Francisco Maghabol has recently arrived in California from the Philippines, eager to earn money to ...
  • Book Jacket: There Are Rivers in the Sky
    There Are Rivers in the Sky
    by Elif Shafak
    Elif Shafak's novel There Are Rivers in the Sky follows three disparate individuals separated by ...

BookBrowse Book Club

Book Jacket
The Memory Library
by Kate Storey
Journey through the pages of this heartwarming novel, where hope, friendship and second chances are written in the margins.
Win This Book
Win My Darling Boy

My Darling Boy by John Dufresne

The story of of a man whose son collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of southern Florida.

Enter

Wordplay

Solve this clue:

D T the B O W the B

and be entered to win..

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.