Series: Horatio Lyle

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The Doomsday Machine: A Further Astonishing Adventure of Horatio Lyle (2008)

It was a fairly enjoyable read, hence the '3 stars', but I think 'The Obsidian Dagger' was better. The first chapter was a bit 'over descriptive', in that the use of verbs and adverbs was kind of 'over-done'. You know how Stephen King said 'The road to Hell is paved with adverbs'? Well, I found t...

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The Obsidian Dagger: Being the Further Extraordinary Adventures of Horatio Lyle (2006)

The Obsidian Dagger is the second book in the Horatio Lyle series by British author, Catherine Webb. As Horatio, Thomas, Tess and Tate work on their pressure-differential-velocity aeronautic device, their research is interrupted by Lord Lincoln, who insists that Her Majesty once again requires Ly...