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Reviews of books, movies, etc. Author Interviews.

Review of Bitter Seeds

Leo’s review of Ian Tregillis’ debut novel Bitter Seeds, as posted on Goodreads: It is often said that a story can only have one big “lie.” But every rule must have exceptions. In his first novel, Bitter Seeds, Ian Tregillis successfully pits one big lie against another: the outcome of an alternate World War 2 is to be decided by the struggle between the British warlocks and the Nazi supermen. During the Spanish Civil War, a British secret agent Raybould Marsh is sent to Spain to meet a Nazi defector. But the latter spontaneously erupts into flames, burning to death,…