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I have always been an avid reader - I found a love of books from my days lost in the local library and had an adult library card from the age of 9 (which allowed me to get out more books than I could carry!) This took me along the career path of becoming an English teacher and I have had an extremely happy career sharing my love of language , novels and drama with young and old alike.
I am the father of three wonderful young women- who make me proud to know them everyday- and they are the inspiration for the central character of the resourceful and strong Bronte in Urban Witch.

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	Eve Of War 4.19 avg rating — 260 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man of War by R.L. Giddings (Goodreads Author), Paul Edmunds (Editor), Christine Giddings (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 174 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE SILVER FLEET: THE COMPLETE SERIES (The Silver Fleet Series) by R.L. Giddings (Goodreads Author), Chris Giddings (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 128 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	CONVICT COMPANY: THE TERMINAL WAR - Book 1 by R.L. Giddings (Goodreads Author), C. Giddings (editor), P. DANNELS (illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Call to Arms (Blood on the Stars, #2)

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The Sentinel (The Sentinel Trilogy, #1)

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R.L. Giddings said: " Crazy Killer Chickens

I had high hopes for this. Certainly, the cover art promised a lot and Wallace structures his action well, including a number of satisfying plot twists, but ultimately I came away feeling a little disappointed . There’s just no e Crazy Killer Chickens

I had high hopes for this. Certainly, the cover art promised a lot and Wallace structures his action well, including a number of satisfying plot twists, but ultimately I came away feeling a little disappointed . There’s just no escaping the fact that structurally, as the first book in a trilogy, what we have here is pure exposition: setting up the main characters and their situations without giving them much to actually do.
The star of the show is undoubtedly the Apex aliens - crazy killer chickens whose goal is to wipe out all of humanity. There is a kind of campy fun to be had from reading about Ak Ik, the queen commander, a raging sociopath whose daughters are genetically programmed to overthrow her. Problem is that she and her brood are pretty much sidelined throughout most of this book.
The bulk of the action then revolves around the clash between the piratical HMS Blackbeard crew and the miserablists aboard the Sentinel itself. While the Blackbeard sailors wouldn’t look out of place in a Flash Gordon strip, the Sentinel crew hale from a much darker dystopian future – think of the silo dwellers in Hugh Howey’s ‘Wool’ and you won’t be too far off the mark.
The story of the Sentinel crew is by far the more interesting of the two storylines. Left for over a decade manning a failing battle station, they are divided about whether they should break radio silence and contact their superiors or blindly continue doing their duty. Inevitably, the various factions start to turn against one another.
Unfortunately, the reader is left with the distinct impression that these guys wouldn’t last five minutes going up against those crazy killer chickens, which is a problem since that was always where this particular story was headed. Cue the arrival of the Blackbeard crew because, no matter what level of knockabout silliness is about to ensue, you know that these guys will always come out smiling – though invariably with a Cosplay cutlass clenched between their teeth.
Wallace writes well and his mismatched characters are often engaging but there’s no escaping the sense that we’re just marking time here ‘til the story proper kicks off with Book 2. ...more "

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