Spell Bound by Kelley Armstrong My rating: 4 of 5 stars Waking the Witch and Spell Bound should truly be read back to back. In fact, they should be read with 13 on hand, almost as a trilogy within the series.…
Review: Aftermath by Ann Aguirre
Aftermath by Ann Aguirre My rating: 4 of 5 stars Leave it to Aguirre to take her heroine in a direction that is apparently pissing off at least half of her readers (those who expected romance). Sirantha Jax is in fine…
Review: Killbox by Ann Aguirre
Killbox by Ann Aguirre My rating: 5 of 5 stars Killbox won’t make any sense without reading the previous three books, and I honestly feel that I should have gone back and re-read them before starting it. I was impatient for…
Review: Shady Lady by Ann Aguirre
Shady Lady by Ann Aguirre My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have to give a fairly high rating to a book that involves a woman who largely saves herself from multiple assassins (natural and supernatural) sent by the head of…
Book Review: Blood Lite III: Aftertaste edited by Kevin J. Anderson
Blood Lite III: Aftertaste by Kevin J. Anderson My rating: 2 of 5 stars This anthology is supposed to be humorous horror. I have a message for Kevin J. Anderson: grossness is not nearly enough for humor. I hope volume two…
Book Review: Down These Strange Streets edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner R. Dozois
Down These Strange Streets by George R.R. Martin My rating: 4 of 5 stars This anthology gathers stories from authors who normally write in various genres. The commonality is that each story is a mystery, and there’s a fantastic twist to…
Book Review: Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris My rating: 3 of 5 stars For fluff, it’s got some really dark scenes. It doesn’t have enough of a plot to be anything more than fluff, though. It absolutely does NOT stand alone, so don’t…
Book Review: Tricked by Kevin Hearne
Tricked by Kevin Hearne My rating: 5 of 5 stars That was so good. Just so very good. Like the last three — well plotted, with good character development from a fascinating cast of characters. This time most of the mythology…
Book Review: Hammered by Kevin Hearne
Hammered by Kevin Hearne My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow. This book has a non-stop pace, for reasons that will be obvious to the reader but cannot be explained to others without spoilers. I’ll just say “clear your calendar” because…
Book Review: Places to Be, People to Kill edited by Brittiany A. Koren & Martin H. Greenberg
Places To Be, People To Kill by Brittiany A. Koren My rating: 3 of 5 stars I enjoyed this anthology more than one might expect from a collection of stories about killers, but then I’ve read a couple of volumes edited by…