Travels in Elysium by William AzuskiMy rating: 1 of 5 stars Despite glowing Kirkus and reader reviews, I’d have to say Azuski’s Travels In Elysium is a poorly researched, inconsistently written novel. The story ostensibly revolves around a young man, Pedrosa, who takes up the position of a lifetime, to work with the legendary archaeologist Huxley, on a dig of epic proportions. And that’s where everything goes badly wrong, from a research point of view….

A Barcelona Heiress by Sergio Vila-SanjuánMy rating: 2 of 5 stars Sergio Vila-Sanjuan’s A Barcelona Heiress has all the ingredients for a great novel, following in the tradition of early 20th century writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck. There is the hotbed of political unrest during the Crown-supported dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, anarchists bombing Barcelona, a growing discontent of the country’s poor and working classes. Into this the author…