Deborah Bell profile

Place of birth: North Tyneside
Now living: Haydon Bridge

3 favourite authors

  • Robin Hobb
  • Erin Hunter
  • JRR Tolkien

3 favourite books

  • Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
  • The Warriors series by Erin Hunter
  • The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

3 favourite films

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring
  • Stardust

Deborah Bell's 4 reviews

This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong

After reading the first book in this series, 'John Dies at the End', I was pretty much prepared for the weirdness, boyish humour and obscene language I knew I would find in the second book of this series. It continues to follow the hapless heroes David Wong and his friend John, but this book is also quite different in some ways from the ...

8.5/10

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John Dies at the End by David Wong

On the street they call it Soy Sauce, it is a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit, and lets users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly, a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts w...

8.8/10

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The Other Log of Phileas Fogg by Philip Jose Farmer (Wold Newton Novels)

When I first started reading Farmer’s novel after scanning the blurb, I had expected to find a conventional science fiction re-writing of Verne’s classic tale ‘Eighty Days around the World’. However, what I was faced with was a heavily researched and cleverly worked companion guide to Verne’s novel in which a previo...

8.8/10

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Scales by Acacia Awai

Vivian Blue has always been a little different. But she had no idea how different, until Hatch Lancaster, Dragonkind's bad boy, enters her life on a secret mission. Within a short time, Hatch is her boss, her friend, and a man who haunts her heart and her dreams. And everything Blue has known and believed turns out to be a lie. Surrounded by...

6.0/10

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