Book Review: Laurell K. Hamilton’s Lunatic Café
Dating a werewolf with self-esteem issues is stressing Anita out. Especially when something-or someone-starts taking out the city’s shapeshifters.
Category: Reading Books
Book Review: Connie Willis’ Doomsday Book
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.
Book Review: Lilith Saintcrow’s The Iron Wyrm Affair
It’s a steampunk Sherlock-Holmes-meets-James Bond as Emma Bannon and Archibald Clare battle conspiracies and treason with magic while dodging assassins.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s “In Sea-Salt Tears”
In 1972, Annie appeared, a woman Liz was attracted to and saw every few years. Eventually it became more and Liz moved away to live with Annie. Until years later, when her mother offered her own skin to Liz. It can be hard to deal with betrayal. Betrayal by family is so very much worse.
Book Review: Faith Hunter’s Blood Trade
Jane puts her life on the line. Again. With Beast’s desire for Leo a dangerous distraction. Cold iron. Three cursed trees. Blood and lightning.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s Chimes at Midnight
It seems like October “Toby” Daye’s life may finally be settling down…at least until dead changelings start appearing in the alleys of San Francisco, killed by an overdose of goblin fruit.
Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s “Never Shines the Sun”
A picnic is meant to be a joy but not for October Daye, as Toby’s mother is strips her of free will, forcing the choice on Toby.
Book Review: Andy Marino’s “The Oregon Trail Diary of Willa Porter”
“The Oregon Trail Diary of Willa Porter” is a collection of diary entries from Willa Porter’s journey west with her family, into territory which gets stranger and stranger.
Book Review: Joanne Harris’ Chocolat
An enchanting novel about a small French town turned upside down by the arrival of a bewitching chocolate confectioner, Vianne Rocher, and her spirited young daughter.
Book Review: Laurell K. Hamilton’s A Kiss of Shadows
Princess Meredith fled the high court of Faerie three years ago and has been in hiding ever since. As Merry Gentry, I am a private investigator, but the shadows have found me.