Book Review: Karen Chance’s “The Gauntlet”

Book Review: Karen Chance’s “The Gauntlet”

I received this book for free from the author as a free story in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the author as a free story “The Gauntlet”by Karen ChanceIt is part of the Cassandra Palmer #0.5 series and is a urban fantasy in eBook edition that was published by the author on October 12, 2010 and has 52 pages.Explore it on Goodreads Other books in this series include [books_series] Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Curse the Dawn, Death’s Mistress, Hunt the Moon, Chicks Kick Butt, Fury’s Kiss, “The Queen’s Witch”, “House at Cobb End”, Midnight’s Daughter, Claimed by Shadow, Touch the Dark, Embrace the Night, Tempt the Stars, “In Vino Veritas”, Updating Pritkin, Reap the Wind,, Ride the Storm, “Black Friday”, Brave the Tempest, Masks, Shatter the Earth, Shadow’s BaneA free short story, 0.5, in the Cassandra Palmer urban fantasy series. This one involves Kit Marlowe when he’s still a young vampire and he’s working for the Queen in Elizabethan England. Download it for free (so far) at Karen Chance’s website. My Take This one is a blip in the […]

Posted January 17, 2013 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Anne McCaffrey’s Three Gothic Novels

Book Review: Anne McCaffrey’s Three Gothic Novels

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Three Gothic Novelsin Paperback edition on January 15, 1992 and has 704 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon A.k.a., Three Gothic Novels. They’re not actually Gothic in the usual sense. Instead, they are three completely separate romances. One is during the 1960s on Long Island, another is set during World War II on the East Coast, and the third is in Dublin, Ireland. All three stories are most interesting for the attitudes of the times. If insta-love bothers you, you should probably skip this trio. The Stories “Ring of Fear” is a sweet if somewhat unbelievable story of a young lady fleeing her rapist after her father’s murder and participating in horse events where she’s rescued by a fellow rider from a series of unfortunate events. It’s an insta-love which takes awhile for me to grasp isn’t so insta. It’s set in the 1960s and there was an interesting disconnect for me. McCaffrey writes of the time period with its drug use and the clothing and yet it has a very contemporary feel […]

Posted January 16, 2013 by Kathy Davie in / 0 Comments