Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch My rating: 5 of 5 stars I just finished Lies Sleeping after reading the entire series straight through, so this review is about the series as much as about the ultimate entry in it. Wow! I’ve been immersed in the marvelous world Aaronovitch created for us, and it’s a shock coming back. […]
Review: A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne
A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book represents a major change from the Iron Druid series, so I worked hard to set aside my expectations of Hearne based on loving those. A Plague of Giants is every bit as well-written as that series, maybe even better! Still, I […]
Review: Attack the Geek by Michael R. Underwood
Attack the Geek by Michael R. Underwood My rating: 5 of 5 stars Excuse me, but SQUEE! More Ree Reyes! More Drake! More Eastwood and Grognard! Yes, more Geekomancy! Michael Underwood is back with a delightful novella and if I have ANY complaints, it’s that this is a novella instead of a novel. That’s just because […]
Review: Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews
Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m fairly sure that I missed a Kate Daniels book because I don’t recall some of the events referred to in this book. That annoys me, and I’ll have to go back and read whatever the last one was out of order now. It’ll be […]
Book Review: Enthralled edited by Melissa Marr and Kelley Armstrong
Enthralled by Melissa Marr My rating: 3 of 5 stars Journeys, literal or otherwise, are the theme of this young adult anthology. Appropriately enough, it was conceived as the result of a book tour. “Giovanni’s Farewell” by Claudia Gray is a sweet, coming-of-age story of sorts. The twist is that it features a brother and sister, twins, rather […]
Review: Hunt the Moon by Karen Chance
Hunt the Moon by Karen Chance My rating: 3 of 5 stars Chance must have thought readers were bored with the Cassandra/Mircea match because much of this book is spent with Cassie falling for Pritkin without really being aware that she’s getting into dangerous territory. Palmer isn’t one of my favorite characters. She isn’t an ass-kicker, […]
Review: Spellbound by Kelley Armstrong
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. At the end of Waking the Witch, Savannah silently thought that if it would reunite […]
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 a drug cartel. There are sexy men in her life (three, in fact), but she’s […]
Book Review: The Horns of Elfland edited by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
The Horns of Elfland by Ellen Kushner My rating: 3 of 5 stars It took a while to track down this volume, as it has long been out of print. The interlibrary loan was, once again, my friend. But how odd to read an actual physical book again, when I’ve been reading ebooks almost exclusively lately!
Review: Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blood Oath is an interesting and fairly refreshing variation on the vampire riff. Most of the current tales give us a suave, sexy predator who mesmerizes his or her prey, leaving humans pining for their presence. They might even fall in love with a human. […]