Blackout by Rob Thurman – review
Publisher’s Description: When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains of a variety of hideous creatures, he’s not that concerned. In fact, he can’t remember anything–including who he is. And that’s just the way his deadly enemies like it… What I expected: I’ve read the entire Cal Leandros series [...]
Changes by Jim Butcher – review
Private detective, full-time wizard Harry Dresden is back and faces some strange changes indeed in Jim Butcher’s exciting, page-turning twelfth novel in his Dresden Files series of books, Changes. This is the second review of the novel at this site, because the paperback is just out, and I managed to score a copy of it. [...]
Twilight’s Dawn by Anne Bishop – review
Twilight’s Dawn is a collection of four novellas set in the Black Jewels universe, and I’m going to go ahead and classify it as a must-read for anyone who’s stuck with the entire series. I don’t know if it will actually be the last Black Jewels book she writes, but it brings a closure to [...]
Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter – review
Shape-shifting “skinwalker” and vampire killer for hire Jane Yellowrock is back in the third Urban Fantasy novel of the Jane Yellowrock series by the talented Faith Hunter, Mercy Blade. It is set primarily in New Orleans, Lousiana, and is told in the first person, from Jane’s POV, as are the first two novels in the [...]
Of Truth and Beasts by Barb & JC Hendee – Review
Of Truth and Beasts, Barb & J.C. Hendee’s ninth adventure in the “Noble Dead Series,” once again allows the reader the rare opportunity to travel into the uniquely imaginative realms that only they can create with such power and grace. They have designed a world where trust is a rare commodity, a world where sacrilege [...]
Side Jobs by Jim Butcher – review
Side Jobs, the most recently published Dresden Files book by Jim Butcher, is a compilation of short stories, most previously published in other anthologies or elsewhere. For a Harry Dresden fan, this is a treasure trove. I would not, however, recommend this to a Harry newbie, as many of these stories take place between the [...]
The Soul Mirror by Carol Berg – review
Have you ever read a book that had such an emotional impact that it left you somewhere between buoyant and bewildered by the end? Perhaps it came unexpectedly, or perhaps you knew it might happen because of your connection with the characters. Either way, come the last quarter of the book, you found yourself weeping [...]
State of Decay by James Knapp – review
From the back cover: They call them revivors–technologically reanimated corpses–and away from the public eye, they do humanity’s dirtiest work. In the near future, where a never-ending war drones on, they are the infantry. Back home, they sustain a black-market trade in labor and pleasure models. If Nico Wachalowski never sees another revivor, it will [...]
Right Hand Magic by Nancy A. Collins – review
Right Hand Magic is one of the most enjoyable books that I have read all year. As a fan of Urban Fantasy, I’d been growing more and more disillusioned with the subgenre as it became almost overrun with more stories about attractive vampires and lecherous werewolves than you could shake a sharpened stick at. Nancy [...]
Chimera by Rob Thurman – review
Chimera by Rob Thurman is both a departure and a relation to her popular Cal Leandros series. On one hand, Chimera has barely a hint of the fantastic, just a possible genetic mutation performed on living people; but on the other, strip away all the excess, and it is a story about an unbreakable bond [...]
From Hell With Love by Simon R. Green – review
“The name is Bond, Shaman Bond.” Shaman Bond is the alter ego of Edwin Drood, the hero of Simon R. Green’s The Secret Histories series, each with a title that parodies the title of a James Bond novel. So far, there’s been three other books in the series, The Man with the Golden Torc, Daemons [...]
Urban Fantasy Mini Round-up: Ilona Andrews, Devon Monk, Lynn Flewelling
Series readers don’t necessarily need a large build-up in their reviews. What they look for (well, what I look for and presume others do, too) is a comparison of the latest volume to the rest of the series and whether their favorite characters or subplots are featured. Since the following three books are later books [...]
